MP3 or video files are playing instead of downloading

[trover]

as title says, in some browsers like "Firefox" video/audio files are playing instead of downloading.
and also i know, users can disable this in browser: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/960216

but i need to prevent this from server side, is this possible?

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also this can be done by .htaccess in Apache web-server:

<FilesMatch "\.(mov|mp4|mp3|jpg|pdf)$">
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>

but how can i use this code in nginx ? (i try http://winginx.com/en/htaccess --- http://www.anilcetin.com/ --- https://labs.gidix.de/nginx/ but no success to converting)

or is there any way to do this from ssh (web-server config file, php.ini ,mime.types ...) ?


Regards

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

This is module can be used with nginx: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_headers_module.html (enabled by default with directadmin).

Something like this:

if ($request_filename ~ "^.*/(.+\.mov|mp4|mp3|jpg|pdf)$"){
            set $fname $1;
            add_header Content-Disposition 'attachment; filename="$fname"';
}

https://gist.github.com/un33k/7119264


Not tested by me.

 

[trover]

Hello Dear Alex,

Thanks for reply,
which file i have to edit?
seems not possible in nginx-includes:

"if" directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/nginx-includes.conf
"add_header" directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/nginx-includes.conf

 

[zEitEr]

1. Did you check in what place you should add the block I posted?
You can see it here: https://gist.github.com/un33k/7119264

2. Then in Directadmin as admin go to -> Custom HTTPD Configurations
And find you domain. Click and open nginx section.

3. Use the proper token to insert the code:

+ CUSTOM1

+ CUSTOM2

+ CUSTOM3

+ CUSTOM4

p.s. Writing by memory. Just spend a time and make sure to find which one is the correct.

 

[trover]

for sharing.
success with this code:

location ~ ^.*/(?P<request_basename>[^/]+\.(mp3))$ {
        add_header Content-Disposition 'attachment; filename="$request_basename"';
    }