Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Installation
  • Handling Challenger
  • Virtual Servers
  • Configuration Examples
  • Modules
  • Filesystems
    · Introduction
    · Filesystem Modules
    · Directory Listing Modules
    · Content Types
    · File Extension Modules
  • RXML Tags
  • Graphics
  • Proxy
  • Databases
  • Miscellaneous Modules
  • Security Considerations
  • Scripting
  • Frontpage
  • Upgrading
  • Third Party Extensions
  • Portability
  • Reporting Bugs
  • Appendix
  • Content Types
    Over HTTP the type of a file is determined by it's MIME content type. A GIF image has the content type image/gif while a HTML page has the content type text/html.

    The Content types module, the only one of it's kind included with Challenger, handles giving each file a content type. This is done through matching the extension of a file with a content type. Thus .gif files are given the content type image/gif and .html files are given the content type text/html.

    What extensions should be matched to which content types is of course fully configurable. A file with the most common extensions and content types is included with Challenger.


    The Content types module must be enabled for Challenger to operate as a web server. You should only remove it if you are certain that you know what you are doing.

    Default content type
    This is the default content type which is used if a file lacks extension or if the extension is unknown.

    Extensions
    A list of extensions and their corresponding content types. The format is as follows:

    Extension TypeEncoding
    gifimage/gif
    gz STRIPgnuzip
    #include<etc/extensions>
    #include<etc/more-ext>

    STRIP causes Roxen to strip this extension and try again. A file named roxen.tar.gz would not only get the Content-encoding x-gzip, but also the Content-type application/unix-tar.

    The #include directive causes files containing more content type definitions to be included. The syntax for those files is the same as the syntax for this variable.