Java Glossary : htaccess

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htaccess

.htaccess is a file used by Apache webservers to let you set up the MIME types and other configuration just by placing this file on your website, without needing to touch the master Apache configuration. Note the lead dot which means read-only in Unix. You must take special care when updating or deleting the file from your webserver. It might look like this:

Options	+IncludesNOEXEC
AddHandler	server-parsed	shtml
AddHandler	server-parsed	html
AddType	application/octet-stream	class
AddType	text/css	css
AddType	image/gif	gif
AddType	text/html	html
AddType	application/java-archive	jar
AddType	application/x-java-archive-diff	jardif
AddType	text/x-java-source	java
AddType	image/jpeg	jpg
AddType	application/x-java-jnlp-file	jnlp
AddType	image/png	png
AddType	application/x-java-serialized-object	ser
AddType	text/plain	txt
AddType	application/zip	zip

I stopped using this feature myself, because it interfered with SSI in a way I could not resolve.

MIME types

home	Canadian Mind Products
	mindprod.com IP:[24.87.56.253]
	Your IP:[80.134.30.163]
	You are visitor number 337.
	Please send errors, omissions and suggestions
	to improve this page to Roedy Green.
	You can get a fresh copy of this page from:	or possibly from your local J: drive mirror:
	http://mindprod.com/jgloss/htaccess.html	J:\mindprod\jgloss\htaccess.html