Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Two questions

2: Re: Two questions (response to 1)

Posted by Tilmann Singer on 03/09/03 10:39 AM

I don't know enough about OpenACS' new way of dealing with mime types, but maybe inserting the desired type in cr_mime_types manually will help (see acs-content-repository/sql/oracle/content-create.sql). Otherwise did you try adding a line in the nsd config file:

ns_section "ns/server/${servername}/mimetypes"
ns_param .mp3 audio/the-mp3-type

Regarding storing the data in the db versus file system: you definitely want to use the content repository, which can transparently use either storage method. Check out one of the numerous posts here on that topic.

3: Re: Two questions (response to 2)

Posted by Jeff Davis on 03/09/03 01:51 PM

For 4.6.1 I added a fairly comprehensive list of mime types, fixed the *_maybe_create_mime_types functions and added a cr_mime_type_extension_map table which maps extension to mime type. Look at the cr_filename_to_mime_type function to see how it's handled there.

As for storing large binary content, I think the answer for almost anyone is store it in the file system. You can do that with the content repository and storage type file.