[Techtalk] configuring Apache2 for pdf

[Helen Rosseau]

This is what I get as a result from your suggestion

susebox:/opt/mozilla/lib # wget -S http://www.blackburnhamlet.ca/juno4/pg1.pdf
--15:34:10--  http://www.blackburnhamlet.ca/juno4/pg1.pdf
           => `pg1.pdf'
Resolving www.blackburnhamlet.ca... done.
Connecting to www.blackburnhamlet.ca[69.198.158.16]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
 1 HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
 2 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:28:33 GMT
 3 Server: Apache/2.0.47 (Linux/SuSE)
 4 Vary: accept-language,accept-charset
 5 Accept-Ranges: bytes
 6 Connection: close
 7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
 8 Content-Language: en
 9 Expires: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:28:33 GMT
15:34:10 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Helen

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On Thursday 10 June 2004 14:53, Cynthia Kiser wrote:
> Sounds like it might be a mime configuration issue. Ask the
> complainers if they can give you an example url that works the way
> they expect (to rule out browser strangeness) and then run "wget -S
> $URL" against both the "good" and your url. See if you get the same
> mime type set for both. If not, then poke around the Apache docs until
> you find out why files with the .pdf extension are not being given the
> correct mime type.
>
> Quoting Helen <hrosseau at rogers.com>:
> > I recently have been receiving complaints from people accessing my web
> > site that they cannot see pdf files in line with their browser.  They
> > have to "save target as" and then open the file.  I've been searching
> > the apache web site, for a configuration file example or reference to
> > handle this, with no luck.
> >
> >    Any suggestions?  I am using SuSE9.0 with  the default apache2
> > server.  Everything else seems to work.  I just had to rebuild my server
> > again from a hard drive crash and I had the same problem previously.
> >
> > Helen