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Feb 142010
 

How to check which mime types are supported by your Debian/Ubuntu

Answer:

The /etc/mime.types file is the system-wide rules which defined for mapping filename suffices to mime types. Your Apache on Debian based Linux will read this file and set the correct Content-type header for these files when serving to users.

# cat /etc/mime.types