By iklio on

I know, there's been a lot of talk concerning forced download, but nothing helped me.
I need to force download of the attached .doc and .xls files. File force works more or less fine, but you should manually edit the link, so that the download is forced. The problem is, i need to find a way to force download automatically, so that users don't have to think about it. I tried editing .htaccess with no effect..
I would appreciate any help

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

What did you try in .htaccess? Doesn't this work?

<FilesMatch "\.(?i:doc|xls)$">
  ForceType application/octet-stream
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>
iklio’s picture

iklio commented

I tried this... no effect... don't know why

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Hmm... probably mod_headers is not installed or enabled in apache. There must be a way using PHP but I can't help there.

harkonnen’s picture

harkonnen commented

Have you tried to alter mime type?

AddType application/octet-stream .pdf .doc .xls