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neda Derakhshesh
neda Derakhshesh

Reputation: 1163

a video with .m4v format does not star downloading in my web while its in the root

I have been adding a video file named Video.m4v to the root of my web site. when I type www.forexample.com/Video.m4v it confront 404 error While I expect a notification for starting to download this. what exactly should I do to make this happened? I want when I type www.forexample.com/Video.m4v in browser it starts to download the video . Appreciate any help. thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 354

Answers (1)

Alexander
Alexander

Reputation: 4537

The documentation says:

IIS 7 will not return file types that are not added to the <staticContent> element or that have mappings in the <handlers> element by default. This behavior prevents unauthorized access to files that do not have mappings in the IIS 7 configuration settings.

So, you need to define MIME-type for specified file extension in the application, site or server configuration using <mimeMap> element. You could also use MIME Types feature of IIS Manager instead of editing configuration file directly.

To instruct browsers to download any static content use download attribute for hyperlink.

Upvotes: 1

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