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tajmorton
Asked: 2014-02-24 15:25:03 +0800 CST

Disabling mod_mime_magic module per directory

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I would like to be able to disable the Apache module mime_magic in a particular directory (and its children). I've searched around, and there seem to be special one-off flags you can set to disable some modules (PHP, deflate, etc), but nothing general (or specific to mime_magic.

Is there a way to disable mime_magic in one directory? There's a known issue with it causing issues serving BAM files with JBrowse, and the recommended workaround is to disable mime_magic.

apache-2.2

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  1. Best Answer

    The module (like all modules) is enabled server-wide. The only available configuration directive is MimeMagicFile, which can be set at the server or virtual host level. So if you wanted to disable it for a specific virtual host, I suppose you could set MimeMagicFile /dev/null in that vhost. But there doesn't seem to be any way of disabling it for a specific directory.

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