Sending Correct Content-Type Headers with .htaccess

Learn how to set up your mime headers in .htaccess here.

Sample .htaccess file from Mozilla

The developers at Mozilla explain how the purpose of configuring the Apache web server to send many common file types with the correct MIME types

Provided .htaccess file

# CSS
AddType text/css .css

# XHTML
AddType application/xhtml+xml .xhtml

# XML
AddType text/xml .xml

# SVG
AddType image/svg+xml .svg .svgz
AddEncoding x-gzip .svgz

# HTML
# Server Side Includes (SSI)
AddType text/html .shtml

# Active Server Pages
AddType text/html .asp

# Favicons
AddType image/vnd.microsoft.icon .ico

# Macromedia
AddType application/x-shockwave-flash .swf
AddType application/x-director .dir .dcr .dxr .fgd
AddType application/x-authorware-map .aam
AddType application/x-authorware-seg .aas
AddType application/x-authorware-bin .aab
AddType image/x-freehand .fh4 .fh5 .fh7 .fhc .fh

# Adobe PDF
AddType application/pdf .pdf

# Real
AddType application/vnd.rn-realmedia .rm
AddType audio/vnd.rn-realaudio .ra .ram
AddType video/vnd.rn-realvideo .rv
AddType audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin .rpm

# Microsoft multimedia
AddType video/x-ms-asf .asf .asx
AddType audio/x-ms-wma .wma
AddType audio/x-ms-wax .wax
AddType video/x-ms-wmv .wmv
AddType video/x-ms-wvx .wvx
AddType video/x-ms-wm .wm
AddType video/x-ms-wmx .wmx
AddType application/x-ms-wmz .wmz
AddType application/x-ms-wmd .wmd

# MPEG
AddType audio/x-mpegurl .m3u

# Binary Compressed files and archives
AddType application/zip .zip
AddType application/x-gzip .gz
AddType application/x-gtar .gtar
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .rar
AddType application/octet-stream .dmg

# Java
AddType application/x-java-applet .class

# Quicktime movies
AddType video/quicktime .mov .qt

# XBM files
AddType image/x-xbitmap .xbm

# WAV files
AddType audio/x-wav .wav

# Bittorrent
AddType application/x-bittorrent .torrent

Common file extensions

that are good to know, organized by file format.

.doc	Microsoft Word Document
.log	Log File
.msg	Mail Message
.rtf	Rich Text Format File
.txt	Text File
.wpd	WordPerfect Document
.wps	Microsoft Works Word Processor Document

.123	Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheet
.csv	Comma Separated Values File
.dat	Data File
.db	Database File
.dll	Dynamic Link Library
.mdb	Microsoft Access Database
.pps	PowerPoint Slide Show
.ppt	PowerPoint Presentation
.sql	Structured Query Language Data
.wks	Microsoft Works Spreadsheet
.xls	Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
.xml	XML File