Jetpack Flight Log » office 2007 http://jetpackweb.com/blog Rock{et}ing the interweb Wed, 19 May 2010 22:21:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Office 2007 docx, pptx, and xslx saving as zip files http://jetpackweb.com/blog/2009/08/12/office-2007-docx-pptx-and-xslx-saving-as-zip-files/ http://jetpackweb.com/blog/2009/08/12/office-2007-docx-pptx-and-xslx-saving-as-zip-files/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:57:07 +0000 Brian Racer http://jetpackweb.com/blog/?p=238 Recently I had an issue where various browsers on Windows desktops were saving docx, xslx, and pptx as zip files when downloaded from our linux web servers(apache in this case). The solution was to add extra mime-types to /etc/mime/types:

echo 'application/vnd.openxmlformats       docx pptx xlsx' >> /etc/mime.types

And then restart apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

This would also require mod_mime to be loaded, and is by default in Debian based systems. To verify the location of the mime.types file your server is using, the following commands may be helpful(replace the httpd.conf or mods conf directory with your distributions location).

grep -n mime.types /etc/apache2/mods-available/*
grep -n mime.types /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Linux desktops with Open Office had no such problems :)

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