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This may seem like astrange question, but how do I serve Macromedia's Flash
from Apache? I have the flash file, e.g.

        dice.fla

in a directory like so:

        /home/user/public_html/dice.fla

and I point my browser to it:

        http://myhost/~user/dice.fla

but insted of the browser getting the hint and playing the movie it just
displays the raw data content. Hmm ... so I checked the /etc/mime.types
file and added:

        application/x-shockwave-flash   swf fla

but still no luck. What am I missing?

  Rudolf

An fla file is a source code file. This content is not displayable by
web-browsers. It needs to be compiled (using macromedia's flash program)
into a "Shockwave" file. (swf).

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Quote:> This may seem like astrange question, but how do I serve Macromedia's
Flash
> from Apache? I have the flash file, e.g.

> dice.fla

> in a directory like so:

> /home/user/public_html/dice.fla

> and I point my browser to it:

> http://myhost/~user/dice.fla

> but insted of the browser getting the hint and playing the movie it just
> displays the raw data content. Hmm ... so I checked the /etc/mime.types
> file and added:

> application/x-shockwave-flash   swf fla

> but still no luck. What am I missing?

>   Rudolf

Hi;

You need to have a plug-in for your browser to play flash object. Check
it out and install it and stuff should work. I am not quite sure if fla
file is suitable for play in browser I think that you must save it as
swf. Check out Macromedia site and manuals to your flash software.

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