[maemo-developers] Two .install file questions

[From: Tony Green]

On Saturday 09 Feb 2008, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:14:54 +0000, Tony Green wrote:
> > That's helped me generate a (hopefully) valid install file, but I'm still
> > finding that instead of actually trying to install the app, clicking on
> > the "Click to install" button is just serving up the file as text.
> > Interestingly, on a desktop machine, I see similar behaviour, the old
> > install file (from http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2007/apache/)
> > causes my browser to ask me what to do with the file, whereas the new
> > install file (from http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/apache/)
> > just displays the file in the browser, something I'm only used to seeing
> > when the webserver isn't serving up the right mimetype.
>
> Add
> 	AddType application/x-install-instructions install
> to the .htaccess file.

Ah! Thanks for that Jiri. Unfortunately the webserver I've got my packages on 
is one that doesn't understand .htaccess files. 

Looks like it's going to have to be a "no install file" job. But on the plus 
side, anybody who's likely to install Apache (oh the irony of hosting Apache 
packages on a different type of webserver) should be fairly technically 
competent anyway.

Strange that the install file for the OS2007 version works without the extra 
data though...

Cheers
Tony


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Tony Green
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