Ensuring media files are downloaded instead of played

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Ensuring media files are downloaded instead of played

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It is possible to ensure that any media files are treated as a download, rather than to be played by the browser.

To enable this, create a .htaccess file following the main instructions and guidance, and include the following text:

AddType application/octet-stream .zip .mp3 .mp4

This tells the Apache Web Server to treat .zip, .mp3, and .mp4 files as downloadable, and should be used instead of specifiying them as audio/video/zip files in your MIME types section.

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david	Article Rating: 5 out of 10
I tried this method with pdf. But it doesn't work
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Table of Contents

1.	What is .htaccess?

2.	How to use .htaccess

3.	Error documents

4.	Redirects

5.	Password protection

6.	Deny visitors by IP address

7.	Deny visitors by referrer

8.	Hot link prevention techniques

9.	Blocking offline browsers and 'bad bots'

10.	DirectoryIndex uses

11.	Adding MIME types

12.	Enable SSI with .htaccess

13.	Enable CGI outside of the cgi-bin

14.	Disable directory listings

15.	Setting server timezone

16.	Changing server signature

17.	Preventing access to your PHP includes files

18.	Prevent access to php.ini

19.	Forcing scripts to display as source code

20.	*Ensuring media files are downloaded instead of played*

21.	Setting up Associations for Encoded Files

22.	Preventing requests with invalid characters

23.	Useful Resources

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