It provides for determining the types of files from the filename. This information relates to the content of the document and is returned to the browser or used in content-negotiation within the server. The directives AddEncoding , AddHandler , AddLanguage and AddType are all used to map file extensions onto the meta-information for that file. The directive TypesConfig is used to specify a file which also maps extensions onto mime types.
Files can have more than one extension, and the order of the extensions is normally irrelevant.
French then the file welcome.fr.html will map onto exactly the same information. The only exception to this is if an extension is given which Apache does not know how to handle. The AddEncoding directive adds to the list of filename extensions which filenames may end in for the specified encoding type. Mime-enc is the mime encoding to use for documents ending in extension . AddHandler is only available in Apache 1.1 and later AddHandler maps the filename extensions extension to the handler handler-name .