Less CSS does not work on a HTTP server

Question

Basic Less CSS code works fine when run from local file system:

<link rel="stylesheet/less" href="style.less" type="text/css" />
<script src="less-1.0.21.min.js"></script>

But once I move my code to a HTTP server, Less CSS becomes unable to find the stylesheet file and all the styling gets broken. The server (App Engine) returns *.less as "octetstream" actually. I tried to copy "style.less" to "style.txt" but with no success.

What does Less CSS needs to work on servers?

Answer 1

That depends heavily on your http server. But you can map in most webservers suffixes to mime types per configuration.

In apache something like this could be a solution

AddType text/css .less

See mod_mime