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Asked: 2026-05-24T04:04:11+00:00

I have seen some articles about HTML5 Manifest, which say that we must add

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I have seen some articles about HTML5 Manifest, which say that we must add manifest file to .htaccess with following line:

AddType text/cache-manifest .manifest

However, there is no any explnation what is the purpose of adding?
Where should I place this .htaccess file ? in the same folder where the manifest file is? and finally how can i make sure that it is added to .htaccess successfully?

Even if i do not create any .htaccess file, i only add this to my html file

<html manifest="site.manifest">

I can see the popup bar in firefox, asking that the website is asking to store data. So isn’t it working without this .htaccess?
I’ll appriciate if anyone can explain. Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You don’t “add a manifest file” to .htaccess with that line. That line just tells Apache that files with the suffix “.manifest” will be of type text/cache-manifest. Apache tells the client about the file type in the HTTP content-type header. The HTTP content-type header is required for the browser/client to understand how to interpret the contents of the file. Refer:

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