Nginx swf file downloads instead of displaying

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Kamal, thank you for your answer. I keep downloading the index. Make sure you already installed it by typing php -v. If there is no version information about your PHP, then you should install it with:. Where would you like to share this to? Twitter Reddit Hacker News Facebook.

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I have a directory index configured and every time I click a file it gets downloaded. I want to tell nginx to show the content for text files instead of downloading them. I still want the download to work when I use wget on those text files. How can I do that? Improve this question. Look here. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Thanks to Sergey Moiseev's comment the answer is quite simple.