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Asked: June 5, 20262026-06-05T03:30:28+00:00 2026-06-05T03:30:28+00:00

A website running on Apache has the following innocuous line to link an .xlsx

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A website running on Apache has the following innocuous line to link an .xlsx spreadsheet for download: <a href='/files/files.xlsx'>Download</a>

When I click it, Opera offers to download the file as a .zip instead. While .xlsx files are valid .zip files, I would prefer them to be downloaded as spreadsheets. How can I prevent this behavior?

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    2026-06-05T03:30:30+00:00Added an answer on June 5, 2026 at 3:30 am

    Adding the following to .htaccess in the site’s root directory solved the issue

    # XLSX
    AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet .xlsx
    

    Here’s a good sample .htaccess file configured with various popular extensions MIME-type pairs.

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