[edit] types

Syntax: types { ... }
Default: { text/html html; image/gif gif; image/jpeg jpg; }
Context: http
server
location
Reference: types


Specifies one or more mappings between MIME types and file extensions. More than one extension can be assigned to a MIME type.

For example:

types {
  text/html    html;
  image/gif    gif;
  image/jpeg   jpg;
}

A sufficiently complete table of mappings is included with nginx, and is located at conf/mime.types.

If you wanted responses to particular location to always indicate a single MIME type, you could define an empty types block and set the default_type directive. For example:

location /download/ {
  types         { }
  default_type  application/octet-stream;
}

Module: HttpCoreModule