Background: For some reason, whenever a user tries to open an xslx (excel 2007) file from our intranet using MSIE, the file download dialog interprets it as a "zip" file.
Admittedly, xslx files really are zip files, but we don't want that behavior. Just open in Excel, please.
Question:
Firefox, OTOH, opens the files normally. Is it possible that the fault is my apache configs? or is this a client-browser-only issue?
Best Answer
You can indeed fix this in Apache's configuration. Add the following lines (and ensure that mod_mime is enabled):
This will ensure that Apache sends the appropriate MIME type to the client, and IE will understand that the files are Office documents and not zips.