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FireFox Prompts "Opening" Dialogue Pop Up - Looks for "application/octet-stream"
Im having a problem with a page (www.securitypartners.com) showing up in FireFox. It shows up fine in IE. When I load the page in FF it prompts a dialogue box to open the file which it says is "application/octet-stream" . The files are HTML and PHP based. It looks like a header issue but Im not too familiar with server errors and things of this nature. Any help is appreciated.
The webserver probably has an incorrect mimetype and firefox will not open it by default. Internet explorer is not be that picky of what it opens and does not follow the RFC as firefox does.
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If PHP was installed on your machine and you are using IIS, go to your IIS manager and find your "website" and somewhere in there you have to allow/deny services that can run on that website. When you install PHP, it's not "enabled" by default, you have to go in there and allow it to run.
the php mimetype is application/x-httpd-php
If you are running apache on windows, you probably need to add this to your httpd.conf and restart apache
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php