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  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <!DOCTYPE modulesynopsis SYSTEM "../style/modulesynopsis.dtd">
  <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../style/manual.xsl"?>
  <modulesynopsis>
  
  <name>mod_mime</name>
  <description>This module associates the request filename's extensions
      (e.g. .html) with the file's behavior (handlers and filters)
      and content (mime-type, language, character set and
      encoding.)
  </description>
  <sourcefile>mod_mime.c</sourcefile>
  <identifier>mime_module</identifier>
  <status>Base</status>
  
  <summary>
      <p>This module is used to associate various bits of "meta
      information" with files by their filename extensions. This
      information relates the filename of the document to it's
      mime-type, language, character set and encoding. This
      information is sent to the browser, and participates in content
      negotiation, so the user's preferences are respected when
      choosing one of several possible files to serve. See
      <module>mod_negotiation</module> for more information
      about content negotiation. </p>
  
      <p>The directives <directive>AddCharset</directive>,
      <directive>AddEncoding</directive>,
      <directive>AddLanguage</directive> and
      <directive>AddType</directive> all used to map file extensions
      onto the meta-information for that file. Respectively they set
      the character set, content-encoding, content-language, and
      MIME-type (content-type) of documents.</p>
  
      <p>In addition, mod_mime may define the "handler" for a
      document, which controls which module or script will serve the
      document. With the introduction of "filters" in Apache 2.0,
      mod_mime can also define the filters that the the content
      should be processed through (e.g. the Includes output filter
      for server side scripting) and what filters the client request
      and POST content should be processed through (the input
      filters.)</p>
  
      <p>The directives <directive>AddHandler</directive>,
      <directive>AddOutputFilter</directive>, and
      <directive>AddInputFilter</directive> control the modules
      or scripts that serve the document.  The 
      <directive>MultiviewsMatch</directive> directive allows
      <directive>mod_negotiation</directive> to consider these
      file extensions to included when testing Multiviews matches.</p>
  
      <p>The directive <directive>TypesConfig</directive> is used
      to specify a file which also maps extensions onto MIME types.
      Most administrators use the provided mime.types file which
      associates common filename extensions with IANA registered
      content types. The current list is maintained at
      <code>http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types</code>
      although it may be mirrored elsewhere). This simplifies the
      httpd.conf file by providing the majority of media-type
      definitions, and they may be overridden by 
      <directive>AddType</directive> directives as needed.</p>
  
      <note>Please do not send requests to the Apache httpd Project
      to add any new entries in the distributed mime.types file
      unless (1) they are already registered with IANA, and (2) they
      use widely accepted, non-conflicting filename extensions across
      platforms. category/x-subtype requests will be automatically
      rejected, as will any new two-letter extensions as they will
      likely conflict later with the already crowded language and
      character set namespace.</note>
  
      <p>The core directives <directive
      module="core">ForceType</directive> and
      <directive>SetHandler</directive> are used to
      associate all the files in a given container (<em>e.g.</em>,
      &lt;location&gt;, &lt;directory&gt;, or &lt;Files&gt;) with a
      particular MIME-type or handler. These settings override any
      filename extension mappings defined in mod_mime.</p>
  
      <p>Note that changing the type or encoding of a file does not
      change the value of the <code>Last-Modified</code> header.
      Thus, previously cached copies may still be used by a client or
      proxy, with the previous headers. If you change the
      meta-information (language, content type, character set or
      encoding) you may need to 'touch' affected files (updating
      their last modified date) to ensure that all visitors are
      receive the corrected content headers.</p>
  </summary>
  
      <seealso>See also: <directive
      module="mod_mime_magic">MimeMagicFile</directive></seealso>
  
  <section>
  <title id="multipleext">Files with Multiple Extensions</title>
  
      <p>Files can have more than one extension, and the order of the
      extensions is <em>normally</em> irrelevant. For example, if the
      file <code>welcome.html.fr</code> maps onto content type
      text/html and language French then the file <code>welcome.fr.html</code> 
      will map onto exactly the same information.  If more than one 
      extension is given which maps onto the same
      type of meta-information, then the one to the right will be
      used. For example, if ".gif" maps to the MIME-type image/gif
      and ".html" maps to the MIME-type text/html, then the file
      <code>welcome.gif.html</code> will be associated with the
      MIME-type "text/html".</p>
  
      <p>Care should be taken when a file with multiple extensions
      gets associated with both a MIME-type and a handler. This will
      usually result in the request being by the module associated
      with the handler. For example, if the <code>.imap</code>
      extension is mapped to the handler "imap-file" (from mod_imap)
      and the <code>.html</code> extension is mapped to the MIME-type
      "text/html", then the file <code>world.imap.html</code> will be
      associated with both the "imap-file" handler and "text/html"
      MIME-type. When it is processed, the "imap-file" handler will
      be used, and so it will be treated as a mod_imap imagemap
      file.</p>
  </section>
  
  <section><title id="contentencoding">Content encoding</title>
  
      <p>A file of a particular MIME type can additionally be encoded a
      particular way to simplify transmission over the Internet.
      While this usually will refer to compression, such as
      <samp>gzip</samp>, it can also refer to encryption, such a
      <samp>pgp</samp> or to an encoding such as UUencoding, which is
      designed for transmitting a binary file in an ASCII (text)
      format.</p>
  
      <p>The MIME RFC puts it this way:</p>
  
      <note>
        The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a
        modifier to the media-type. When present, its value indicates
        what additional content coding has been applied to the
        resource, and thus what decoding mechanism must be applied in
        order to obtain the media-type referenced by the Content-Type
        header field. The Content-Encoding is primarily used to allow
        a document to be compressed without losing the identity of
        its underlying media type.
      </note>
  
      <p>By using more than one file extension (see <a
      href="#multipleext">section above about multiple file
      extensions</a>), you can indicate that a file is of a
      particular <em>type</em>, and also has a particular
      <em>encoding</em>. </p>
  
      <p>For example, you may have a file which is a Microsoft Word
      document, which is pkzipped to reduce its size. If the
      <samp>.doc</samp> extension is associated with the Microsoft
      Word file type, and the <samp>.zip</samp> extension is
      associated with the pkzip file encoding, then the file
      <samp>Resume.doc.zip</samp>would be known to be a pkzip'ed Word
      document.</p>
  
      <p>Apache send a <samp>Content-encoding</samp> header with the
      resource, in order to tell the client browser about the
      encoding method.</p>
  
      <example>Content-encoding: pkzip</example>
  
  </section>
  
  <section>
  
  <title>Character sets and languages</title>
  
      <p>In addition to file type and the file encoding,
      another important piece of information is what language a
      particular document is in, and in what character set the file
      should be displayed. For example, the document might be written
      in the Vietnamese alphabet, or in Cyrillic, and should be
      displayed as such. This information, also, is transmitted in
      HTTP headers.</p>
  
      <p>The character set, language encoding and mime type are all 
      used in the process of content negotiation (See 
      <module>mod_negotiation</module>) to determine
      which document to give to the client, when there are
      alternative documents in more than one character set, language, 
      encoding or mime type.  All filename extensions associations
      created with <module>AddCharset</module>, <module>AddEncoding</module>, 
      <module>AddLanguage</module> and <module>AddType</module> directives
      (and extensions listed in the <module>MimeMagicFile</module>)
      participate in this select process.  Filename extensions that
      are only associated using the <module>AddHandler</module>,
      <module>AddInputFilter</module> or <module>AddOutputFilter</module>
      directives may be included or excluded from matching by using 
      the <directive>MultiviewsMatch</directive> directive.</p>
  
  <section>
  <title>Charset</title>
  
      <p>To convey this further information, Apache optionally sends
      a <samp>Content-Language</samp> header, to specify the language
      that the document is in, and can append additional information
      onto the <samp>Content-Type</samp> header to indicate the
      particular character set that should be used to correctly
      render the information.</p>
  
  <example>
  Content-Language: en, fr<br />
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2
  </example>
  
      <p>The language specification is the two-letter abbreviation
      for the language. The <samp>charset</samp> is the name of the
      particular character set which should be used.</p>
  </section>
  </section>
  
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>AddCharset</name>
  <syntax>AddCharset <em>charset extension</em> 
  [<em>extension</em>] ...</syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>server config</context>
  <context>virtual host</context>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <override>FileInfo</override>
  <compatibility>AddCharset is only available in Apache 
  1.3.10 and later</compatibility>
  <description>Maps the given filename extensions
      to the specified content charset</description>
  
  <usage>
      
      <p>The AddCharset directive maps the given filename extensions
      to the specified content charset. <i>charset</i> is the MIME
      charset parameter of filenames containing <i>extension</i>.
      This mapping is added to any already in force, overriding any
      mappings that already exist for the same <i>extension</i>.</p>
  
      <p>Example:</p>
  <example>
      AddLanguage ja .ja<br />
      AddCharset EUC-JP .euc<br />
      AddCharset ISO-2022-JP .jis<br />
      AddCharset SHIFT_JIS .sjis
  </example>
  
      <p>Then the document <code>xxxx.ja.jis</code> will be treated
      as being a Japanese document whose charset is ISO-2022-JP (as
      will the document <code>xxxx.jis.ja</code>). The AddCharset
      directive is useful for both to inform the client about the
      character encoding of the document so that the document can be
      interpreted and displayed appropriately, and for <a
      href="../content-negotiation.html">content negotiation</a>,
      where the server returns one from several documents based on
      the client's charset preference.</p>
  
      <p>The <em>extension</em> argument is case-insensitive, and can
      be specified with or without a leading dot.</p>
  
      <seealso><strong>See also</strong>:
      <module>mod_negotiation</module></seealso>
  
  </usage>
  
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>AddEncoding</name>
  <syntax>AddEncoding
      <em>MIME-enc extension</em> [<em>extension</em>] ...</syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>server config</context>
  <context>virtual host</context>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  <override>FileInfo</override>
  </contextlist>
  <description>Maps the given filename extensions
      to the specified encoding type</description>
  
  <usage>
  
      <p>The AddEncoding directive maps the given filename extensions
      to the specified encoding type. <em>MIME-enc</em> is the MIME
      encoding to use for documents containing the
      <em>extension</em>. This mapping is added to any already in
      force, overriding any mappings that already exist for the same
      <em>extension</em>. Example:</p>
  
      <example>
        AddEncoding x-gzip .gz<br />
        AddEncoding x-compress .Z
      </example>
  
      <p>This will cause filenames containing the .gz extension to be
      marked as encoded using the x-gzip encoding, and filenames
      containing the .Z extension to be marked as encoded with
      x-compress. </p>
  
      <p>Old clients expect <code>x-gzip</code> and
      <code>x-compress</code>, however the standard dictates that
      they're equivalent to <code>gzip</code> and
      <code>compress</code> respectively. Apache does content
      encoding comparisons by ignoring any leading <code>x-</code>.
      When responding with an encoding Apache will use whatever form
      (<em>i.e.</em>, <code>x-foo</code> or <code>foo</code>) the
      client requested. If the client didn't specifically request a
      particular form Apache will use the form given by the
      <code>AddEncoding</code> directive. To make this long story
      short, you should always use <code>x-gzip</code> and
      <code>x-compress</code> for these two specific encodings. More
      recent encodings, such as <code>deflate</code> should be
      specified without the <code>x-</code>.</p>
  
      <p>The <em>extension</em> argument is case-insensitive, and can
      be specified with or without a leading dot.</p>
  
      <seealso><strong>See also</strong>: <a href="#multipleext">Files with
      multiple extensions</a></seealso>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>AddHandler</name>
  <syntax>AddHandler
      <em>handler-name extension</em> [<em>extension</em>] ...</syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>server config</context>
  <context>virtual host</context>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <override>FileInfo</override>
  <compatibility></compatibility>
  <description>AddHandler maps the filename extensions <em>extension</em>
  to the <a href="../handler.html">handler</a> <em>handler-name</em>.
  </description>
  
  <usage>
  <p>This mapping is added to any already in
      force, overriding any mappings that already exist for the same
      <em>extension</em>. For example, to activate CGI scripts with
      the file extension "<code>.cgi</code>", you might use:</p>
  
  <example>
      AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
  </example>
  
      <p>Once that has been put into your srm.conf or httpd.conf
      file, any file containing the "<code>.cgi</code>" extension
      will be treated as a CGI program.</p>
  
      <p>The <em>extension</em> argument is case-insensitive, and can
      be specified with or without a leading dot.</p>
  
      <seealso><strong>See also</strong>: <a href="#multipleext">Files with
      multiple extensions</a></seealso>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>AddInputFilter</name>
  <syntax>AddInputFilter
      <em>filter</em>[<em>;filter</em>...] extension
      [<em>extension</em> ...]</syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>server config</context>
  <context>virtual host</context>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <compatibility>AddInputFilter
      is only available in Apache 2.0.26 and later.</compatibility>
  <description>Maps the filename extensions
      <em>extension</em> to the filter or filters which will process
      client requests and POST input when they are received by the
      server.</description>
  
  <usage>
  
      <p>AddInputFilter maps the filename extensions
      <em>extension</em> to the filter or filters which will process
      client requests and POST input when they are received by the
      server. This is in addition to any filters defined elsewhere,
      including the <a
      href="core.html#setinputfilter">SetInputFilter</a> directive.
      This mapping is merged over any already in force, overriding
      any mappings that already exist for the same
      <em>extension</em>.</p>
  
      <p>If more than one filter is specified, they must be separated
      by semicolons in the order in which they should process the
      content. Both the filter and <em>extension</em> arguments are
      case-insensitive, and the extension may be specified with or
      without a leading dot.</p>
  
      <seealso>See also the <a href="../filter.html">Filters</a>
      documentation.</seealso>
  </usage>
  
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>AddLanguage</name>
  <syntax>AddLanguage
      <em>MIME-lang extension</em> [<em>extension</em>] ...</syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>server config</context>
  <context>virtual host</context>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <override>FileInfo</override>
  <description>maps the given filename extension
  to the specified content language.</description>
  
  <usage>
  
      <p>The AddLanguage directive maps the given filename extension
      to the specified content language. <em>MIME-lang</em> is the
      MIME language of filenames containing <em>extension</em>. This
      mapping is added to any already in force, overriding any
      mappings that already exist for the same
      <em>extension</em>.</p>
  
      <p>Example:</p>
  
      <example>
        AddEncoding x-compress .Z<br />
         AddLanguage en .en<br />
         AddLanguage fr .fr
      </example>
  
      <p>Then the document <code>xxxx.en.Z</code> will be treated as
      being a compressed English document (as will the document
      <code>xxxx.Z.en</code>). Although the content language is
      reported to the client, the browser is unlikely to use this
      information. The AddLanguage directive is more useful for <a
      href="../content-negotiation.html">content negotiation</a>,
      where the server returns one from several documents based on
      the client's language preference.</p>
  
      <p>If multiple language assignments are made for the same
      extension, the last one encountered is the one that is used.
      That is, for the case of:</p>
  
  <example>
      AddLanguage en .en<br />
      AddLanguage en-uk .en<br />
      AddLanguage en-us .en
  </example>
  
      <p>documents with the extension "<code>.en</code>" would be
      treated as being "<code>en-us</code>".</p>
  
      <p>The <em>extension</em> argument is case-insensitive, and can
      be specified with or without a leading dot.</p>
  
      <seealso><strong>See also</strong>: <a href="#multipleext">Files with
      multiple extensions</a>, <module>mod_negotiation</module></seealso>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>AddOutputFilter</name>
  <syntax>AddOutputFilter
      <em>filter</em>[<em>;filter</em>...] extension
      [<em>extension</em> ...]</syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>server config</context>
  <context>virtual host</context>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <override></override>
  <compatibility>AddOutputFilter
      is only available in Apache 2.0.26 and later.</compatibility>
  <description>maps the filename
  extensions <em>extension</em> to the filters which will process
  responses from the server before they are sent to the 
  client.</description>
  
  <usage>
  
      <p>The <directive>AddOutputFilter</directive> directive maps the filename
      extensions <em>extension</em> to the filters which will process
      responses from the server before they are sent to the client.
      This is in addition to any filters defined elsewhere, including
      the <directive module="core">SetOutputFilter</directive>
      directive. This mapping is merged over any already in force,
      overriding any mappings that already exist for the same
      <em>extension</em>.</p>
  
      <p>For example, the following configuration will process all
      .shtml files for server-side includes.</p>
       
  
      <example>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;AddOutputFilter INCLUDES shtml
      </example>
  
      <p>If more than one filter is specified, they must be separated
      by semicolons in the order in which they should process the
      content. Both the filter and <em>extension</em> arguments are
      case-insensitive, and the extension may be specified with or
      without a leading dot.</p>
  
      <seealso>See also the <a href="../filter.html">Filters</a>
      documentation.</seealso>
  
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>AddType</name>
  <syntax>AddType <em>MIME-type
      extension</em> [<em>extension</em>] ...</syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>server config</context>
  <context>virtual host</context>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <override>FileInfo</override>
  <description>maps the given filename extensions
  onto the specified content type.</description>
  
  <usage>
  
      <p>The AddType directive maps the given filename extensions
      onto the specified content type. <em>MIME-type</em> is the MIME
      type to use for filenames containing <em>extension</em>. This
      mapping is added to any already in force, overriding any
      mappings that already exist for the same <em>extension</em>.
      This directive can be used to add mappings not listed in the
      MIME types file (see the <directive>TypesConfig</directive>
      directive).</p>
      
      <p>Example:</p>
  
      <example>
        AddType image/gif .gif
      </example>
  
      <note>It is recommended that new MIME types be added using the
      AddType directive rather than changing the 
      <directive>TypesConfig</directive> file. </note>
  
      <note>Note that, unlike the NCSA httpd, this directive cannot be
      used to set the type of particular files.</note>
  
      <p>The <em>extension</em> argument is case-insensitive, and can
      be specified with or without a leading dot.</p>
  
      <seealso><strong>See also</strong>: <a href="#multipleext">Files with
      multiple extensions</a></seealso>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>MultiviewsMatch</name>
  <syntax>MultiviewsMatch
      <em>[NegotiatedOnly] [Handlers] [Filters] [Any]</em></syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>server config</context>
  <context>virtual host</context>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <override>FileInfo</override>
  <compatibility>only available 
      in Apache 2.0.26 and later.</compatibility>
  
  <usage>
  
      <p>MultiviewsMatch permits three different behaviors for
      <a href="mod_negotiation.html">mod_negotiation</a>'s Multiviews 
      feature.  Multiviews allows a request for a file, e.g. index.html,
      to match any negotiated extensions following the base request,
      e.g. index.html.en, index.html,fr, or index.html.gz.</p>
  
      <p>The NegotiatedOnly option provides that every extension following
      the base name must correlate to a recognized mod_mime extension for
      content negotation, e.g. Charset, Content-Type, Language, or 
      Encoding.  This is the strictest implementation with the fewest
      unexpected side effects, and is the default behavior.</p>
  
      <p>To include extensions associated with Handlers and/or Filters,
      set the MultiviewsMatch directive to either Handlers, Filters, or
      both option keywords.  If all other factors are equal, the smallest
      file will be served, e.g. in deciding between index.html.cgi of 500
      characters and index.html.pl of 1000 bytes, the .cgi file would win
      in this example.  Users of .asis files might prefer to use the
      Handler option, if .asis files are associated with the asis-handler.</p>
  
      <p>You may finally allow Any extensions to match, even if mod_mime 
      doesn't recognize the extension.  This was the behavior in Apache 1.3,
      and can cause unpredicatable results, such as serving .old or .bak
      files the webmaster never expected to be served.</p>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>DefaultLanguage</name>
  <syntax>DefaultLanguage
      <em>MIME-lang</em></syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>server config</context>
  <context>virtual host</context>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <override>FileInfo</override>
  <compatibility>DefaultLanguage
      is only available in Apache 1.3.4 and later.</compatibility>
  <description>Sets all files in the given scope to the 
  specified language</description>
  
  <usage>
  
      <p>The DefaultLanguage directive tells Apache that all files in
      the directive's scope (<em>e.g.</em>, all files covered by the
      current <code>&lt;Directory&gt;</code> container) that don't
      have an explicit language extension (such as <samp>.fr</samp>
      or <samp>.de</samp> as configured by <samp>AddLanguage</samp>)
      should be considered to be in the specified <em>MIME-lang</em>
      language. This allows entire directories to be marked as
      containing Dutch content, for instance, without having to
      rename each file. Note that unlike using extensions to specify
      languages, <samp>DefaultLanguage</samp> can only specify a
      single language.</p>
  
      <p>If no <samp>DefaultLanguage</samp> directive is in force,
      and a file does not have any language extensions as configured
      by <samp>AddLanguage</samp>, then that file will be considered
      to have no language attribute.</p>
  
      <seealso><strong>See also</strong>: <a href="#multipleext">Files with
      multiple extensions</a>, <module>mod_negotiation</module></seealso>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>RemoveCharset</name>
  <syntax>RemoveCharset
      <em>extension</em> [<em>extension</em>] ...</syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <compatibility>RemoveCharset is
      only available in Apache 2.0.24 and later.</compatibility>
  
  <usage>
      <p>The <samp>RemoveCharset</samp> directive removes any
      character set associations for files with the given extensions.
      This allows <code>.htaccess</code> files in subdirectories to
      undo any associations inherited from parent directories or the
      server config files.</p>
  
      <p>The <em>extension</em> argument is case-insensitive, and can
      be specified with or without a leading dot.</p>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>RemoveEncoding</name>
  <syntax>RemoveEncoding
      <em>extension</em> [<em>extension</em>] ...</syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <compatibility>RemoveEncoding
      is only available in Apache 1.3.13 and later.</compatibility>
  
  <usage>
  
      <p>The <samp>RemoveEncoding</samp> directive removes any
      encoding associations for files with the given extensions. This
      allows <code>.htaccess</code> files in subdirectories to undo
      any associations inherited from parent directories or the
      server config files. An example of its use might be:</p>
  
  
  <example>
      <dl>
        <dt><code>/foo/.htaccess:</code></dt>
        <dd><code>AddEncoding x-gzip .gz</code><br />
         <code>AddType text/plain .asc</code><br />
         <code>&lt;Files *.gz.asc&gt;</code><br />
         <code>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;RemoveEncoding
        .gz</code><br />
         <code>&lt;/Files&gt;</code></dd>
      </dl>
  </example>
  
      <p>This will cause <code>foo.gz</code> to be marked as being
      encoded with the gzip method, but <code>foo.gz.asc</code> as an
      unencoded plaintext file.</p>
  
      <p><b>Note:</b>RemoveEncoding directives are processed
      <i>after</i> any AddEncoding directives, so it is possible they
      may undo the effects of the latter if both occur within the
      same directory configuration.</p>
  
      <p>The <em>extension</em> argument is case-insensitive, and can
      be specified with or without a leading dot.</p>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>RemoveHandler</name>
  <syntax>RemoveHandler
      <em>extension</em> [<em>extension</em>] ...</syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <compatibility>RemoveHandler is
      only available in Apache 1.3.4 and later.</compatibility>
  
  <usage>
  
      <p>The <samp>RemoveHandler</samp> directive removes any handler
      associations for files with the given extensions. This allows
      <code>.htaccess</code> files in subdirectories to undo any
      associations inherited from parent directories or the server
      config files. An example of its use might be:</p>
  
  <example>
      <dl>
        <dt><code>/foo/.htaccess:</code></dt>
  
        <dd><code>AddHandler server-parsed .html</code></dd>
  
        <dt><code>/foo/bar/.htaccess:</code></dt>
  
        <dd><code>RemoveHandler .html</code></dd>
      </dl>
  </example>
  
      <p>This has the effect of returning <samp>.html</samp> files in
      the <samp>/foo/bar</samp> directory to being treated as normal
      files, rather than as candidates for parsing (see the <a
      href="mod_include.html"><samp>mod_include</samp></a>
      module).</p>
  
      <p>The <em>extension</em> argument is case-insensitive, and can
      be specified with or without a leading dot.</p>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>RemoveInputFilter</name>
  <syntax>RemoveInputFilter
      <em>extension</em> [<em>extension</em>] ...</syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <compatibility>RemoveInputFilter is only available in Apache 
  2.0.26 and later.</compatibility>
  
  <usage>   
  
      <p>The <samp>RemoveInputFilter</samp> directive removes any
      input filter associations for files with the given extensions.
      This allows <code>.htaccess</code> files in subdirectories to
      undo any associations inherited from parent directories or the
      server config files.</p>
  
      <p>The <em>extension</em> argument is case-insensitive, and can
      be specified with or without a leading dot.</p>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>RemoveLanguage</name>
  <syntax>RemoveLanguage
      <em>extension</em> [<em>extension</em>] ...</syntax>
  <default>None</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <compatibility>RemoveLanguage
      is only available in Apache 2.0.24 and later.</compatibility>
  
  
  <usage>
  
      <p>The <samp>RemoveLanguage</samp> directive removes any
      language associations for files with the given extensions. This
      allows <code>.htaccess</code> files in subdirectories to undo
      any associations inherited from parent directories or the
      server config files.</p>
  
      <p>The <em>extension</em> argument is case-insensitive, and can
      be specified with or without a leading dot.</p>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>RemoveOutputFilter</name>
  <syntax>RemoveOutputFilter
      <em>extension</em> [<em>extension</em>] ...</syntax>
  <default></default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <override></override>
  <compatibility>RemoveOutputFilter is only available in Apache 
  2.0.26 and later.</compatibility>
  
  <usage>    
  
      <p>The <samp>RemoveOutputFilter</samp> directive removes any
      output filter associations for files with the given extensions.
      This allows <code>.htaccess</code> files in subdirectories to
      undo any associations inherited from parent directories or the
      server config files.</p>
  
      <p>The <em>extension</em> argument is case-insensitive, and can
      be specified with or without a leading dot.</p>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>RemoveType</name>
  <syntax>RemoveType
      <em>extension</em> [<em>extension</em>] ...</syntax>
  <default></default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>directory</context>
  <context>.htaccess</context>
  </contextlist>
  <override></override>
  <compatibility>RemoveType is
      only available in Apache 1.3.13 and later.</compatibility>
  
  <usage>
      <p>The <directive>RemoveType</directive> directive removes any MIME type
      associations for files with the given extensions. This allows
      <code>.htaccess</code> files in subdirectories to undo any
      associations inherited from parent directories or the server
      config files. An example of its use might be:</p>
  
  <example>
      <dl>
        <dt><code>/foo/.htaccess:</code></dt>
  
        <dd><code>RemoveType .cgi</code></dd>
      </dl>
  </example>
  
      <p>This will remove any special handling of <code>.cgi</code>
      files in the <code>/foo/</code> directory and any beneath it,
      causing the files to be treated as being of the <a
      href="core.html#defaulttype">default type</a>.</p>
  
      <note><b>Note:</b><module>RemoveType</module> directives are processed
      <i>after</i> any <module>AddType</module> directives, so it is
      possible they may undo the effects of the latter if both occur
      within the same directory configuration.</note>
  
      <p>The <em>extension</em> argument is case-insensitive, and can
      be specified with or without a leading dot.</p>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  
  
  
  <directivesynopsis>
  <name>TypesConfig</name>
  <syntax>TypesConfig <em>file-path</em></syntax>
  <default>TypesConfig conf/mime.types</default>
  <contextlist>
  <context>server config</context>
  </contextlist>
  
  <usage>
  
      <p>The TypesConfig directive sets the location of the MIME
      types configuration file. <em>Filename</em> is relative to the
      <a href="core.html#serverroot">ServerRoot</a>. This file sets
      the default list of mappings from filename extensions to
      content types; changing this file is not recommended. Use the
      <a href="#addtype">AddType</a> directive instead. The file
      contains lines in the format of the arguments to an AddType
      command:</p>
  
      <example>
        MIME-type extension extension ...
      </example>
  
      <p>
      The extensions are lower-cased. Blank lines, and lines
      beginning with a hash character (`#') are ignored. </p>
  </usage>
  </directivesynopsis>
  </modulesynopsis>