Rails - Aug 2009 - Mongrel and mimetype?

Dear Mongrel People,

lighttpd allows me to assign a mimetype to a file which ends with a
specific suffix.

For example if I have a file named, "helloworld.manifest", and I serve
it using lighttpd,
I can declare its mimetype with the following declaration in
lighttpd.conf:

mimetype.assign = (
  ".manifest"   =>  "text/cache-manifest",
  ".css"        =>  "text/css",
  ".gif"        =>  "image/gif",
  ".htm"        =>  "text/html",
  ".html"       =>  "text/html",
  ".jpeg"       =>  "image/jpeg",
  ".jpg"        =>  "image/jpeg",
  ".js"         =>  "text/javascript",
  ".png"        =>  "image/png",
  ".swf"        =>  "application/x-shockwave-flash",
  ".txt"        =>  "text/plain"
)

With Mongrel, how do I declare the mimetype of "helloworld.manifest" ?

-b

Hi b,

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 11:02 -0700,
bornboulder77-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
wrote:
> Dear Mongrel People,
This is a Rails list, not Mongrel. While I don''t consider myself a
Mongrel expert I think I can help you with your question.
> lighttpd allows me to assign a mimetype to a file which ends with a
> specific suffix.
> 
<snip>
> 
> With Mongrel, how do I declare the mimetype of
"helloworld.manifest" ?
AFAIK, you don''t.  The reason is that Mongrel is used, at least in
''our''
world, to serve dynamic content to front-facing web servers like Apache,
Lighttpd, nginix, ...  In fact, if you type ''lighttpd vs '' in
the google
search box in Firefox you get a list of web servers that are reasonable
comparisons.  Mongrel''s not in the list.

HTH,
Bill

Easy answer:

Read this:
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/wiki/HOWTO

Write that:
---
  .manifest: text/cache-manifest
  .css: text/css
  .gif: image/gif
  .htm: text/html
  .html: text/html
  .jpeg: image/jpeg
  .jpg: image/jpeg
  .js: text/javascript
  .png: image/png
  .swf: application/x-shockwave-flash
  .txt: text/plain

Run this:
  cd rails_root
  mongrel_rails start -m config/mime.yaml

-b


On Aug 21, 11:02 am,
"bornboulde...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
<bornboulde...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Dear Mongrel People,
>
> lighttpd allows me to assign a mimetype to a file which ends with a
> specific suffix.
>
> For example if I have a file named, "helloworld.manifest", and I
serve
> it using lighttpd,
> I can declare its mimetype with the following declaration in
> lighttpd.conf:
>
> mimetype.assign = (
>   ".manifest"   =>  "text/cache-manifest",
>   ".css"        =>  "text/css",
>   ".gif"        =>  "image/gif",
>   ".htm"        =>  "text/html",
>   ".html"       =>  "text/html",
>   ".jpeg"       =>  "image/jpeg",
>   ".jpg"        =>  "image/jpeg",
>   ".js"         =>  "text/javascript",
>   ".png"        =>  "image/png",
>   ".swf"        =>  "application/x-shockwave-flash",
>   ".txt"        =>  "text/plain"
> )
>
> With Mongrel, how do I declare the mimetype of
"helloworld.manifest" ?
>
> -b