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Asked: 2026-06-15T02:23:14+00:00

Currently I have a wordpress site on the local development server that has a

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Currently I have a wordpress site on the local development server that has a download link on it. On this download link is a setup.exe/softwarename.msi installer package that has been compressed using the built in microsoft iexpress tool.

The problem? WordPress is sending the download as application/x-msdownload. This is triggering all sorts of malware alerts in Chrome and other browsers. A simple change of the response header to application/octet-stream will probably fix the problem. However, I’m not sure how to go about changing it so that wordpress is sending the proper response header rather than some age-old application/x-msdownload header. Is there a way I can redirect the link using htaccess to change the header?

Can anyone help me? I’d rather not have customers turned away because of a fake malware alert.

Thanks!

EDIT: I managed to use AddType to change the returned type. I still have the same problem though. Is there any other way?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here is an idea with a simple redirection:

    RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule ^old-url\.php$ http://www.domain.com/new-url.php [NC,R=301,T=application/octet-stream ]
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