Apache will not serve .wml files

[maslett]

Hi,
I'm trying to get my apache server (Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.1.2) to serve .wml files. When I type in the url the browser (both FF & IE) says it's an unknown file type and asks if I want to download the file.

After a bit of research I came across this advice:

Add these lines to the mime.types in the conf directory and your Apache will serve WAP type files as well:

text/vnd.wap.wml .wml
application/vnd.wap.wmlc .wmlc
text/vnd.wap.wmlscript .wmls
application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc .wmlsc
image/vnd.wap.wbmp .wbmp

So I grep'd my mime.types files and all the lines mentioned above were already present:

root@aslett:/etc# grep vnd.wap mime.types 
application/vnd.wap.sic
application/vnd.wap.slc
application/vnd.wap.wbxml                       wbxml
[b]application/vnd.wap.wmlc                        wmlc[/b]
[b]application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc                  wmlsc[/b]
[b]image/vnd.wap.wbmp                              wbmp[/b]
text/vnd.wap.si
text/vnd.wap.sl
[b]text/vnd.wap.wml                                wml[/b]
[b]text/vnd.wap.wmlscript                          wmls[/b]

The test.wml file is also definately present on the server in the correct directory:

root@aslett:/var/[URL unfurl="true"]www/soduku#[/URL] ls
head.inc.htm  html  index.php  solved.php  test.wml

Any help on solving this would be very appreciated.
Thanks.
Matt.

 

[donb01]

I'm by no means an expert, so I'm just bouncing this off you to see if it goes anywhere.

I'm still running apache 1.3, and when I wanted to use .shtml files on my site I had to add the following 2 lines to my site configuration:

AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

Now I understand that your .wml stuff is already set up in the mime-types file, so you shouldn't have to add the type on the fly, but maybe you have to tell the server what to do with it using an "add-handler" statement in your site config file?

Like I said... When I needed to make this work I got it out of a book somewhere - I'm by no means an expert!

 

[maslett]

Thanks for the reply donb01,

I added the AddHandler statement to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf (as it was the only file that already contained AddHandler commands), restarted apache but the same problem still exists.

Thanks anyway.
Matt

 

[maslett]

I AM SUCH A DOOOFUS!!

When I used a wap browser emulator everything worked fine.

Apologies to anyone who wasted their time reading the problem.

Matt