[Xitami] Configuring your Web server to handle the DjVu MIME Types

[Bob Paddock]

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 06:56 pm, you wrote:
> > DjVu is a new file format
>
> The format looks very useful so I installed the plug-in.
>
> Argh.
>
> "Auto-install" ran around in circles. I installed manually,
> verified that DjVu was showing in Plug-Ins.

Under Windows I've never had a problem with Auto, but under Linux it has 
never worked right.

> Even so, it is VERY hard to find a "working" DjVu page. 

Alas your right.  Even my own current web site tells you that you must 
download them to view them.

> them, on various servers, come up as gibberish. Yes, those
> extensions are set in my browser. Are ALL these webmasters
> posting bigabytes of files that don't work because of server
> configuration?

In my case my ISP controls the server, and I control the web site.  I've 
asked them many times to fix the problem, but they never even respond.

> The djvuzone page has some hard to find links to samples. 

Did you check out the "Digital Library"?

> Franklin catalog works GREAT: this blows-away PDF.

Exactly.

> But most sites just make my browser want to download. So I saved
> a DjVu file to my machine, then forced NetScape to look at the
> file. Interestingly, now it opens the viewer, but the document is
> blank.

If running under Windows download DjVu Shop from http://www.lizardtech.com/ 
if running under Linux build djview from the Source Forge site.  They you can 
tell if it is a bad djvu document or a plug-in problem.