Apache Mime Types for Office 2007 Files
Jon had posted up a link to an Excel file he created with the extension .xlsx, an Office 2007 file, on to his site. The upload was fine and all until you wanted to download it, in IE. He was telling me why the Excel file was saving to a zip document instead of the xlsx document. I wasn’t sure what he was talking about because I’m on a Mac and Macs don’t have IE. Good thing I have a virtual machine running with IE7 on it. I thought he was talking gibberish but what he said was true. It was saving the Excel as a zip. I opened the zip to find worksheets and style data so I guess this new Microsoft file type is pretty much a zip file so that probably made IE confused.
I went to look around for solutions for Apache mime type configurations for Office 2007 file extensions and found this solution and added it to his .htaccess file:
AddType application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12 docm AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document docx AddType application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12 dotm AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template dotx AddType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12 potm AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template potx AddType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroEnabled.12 ppam AddType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12 ppsm AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow ppsx AddType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12 pptm AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation pptx AddType application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12 xlam AddType application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12 xlsb AddType application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12 xlsm AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet xlsx AddType application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12 xlt AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template xltx
This solved the issue and Jon couldn’t be any happier.