Images show up as type "text/x-generic"

[AlphaPete]

I know I posted about this before, and I thought it was fixed; my problems were not evident when I closed the previous thread as solved. However, I am still having the issues I was having before: I cannot upload images to either my main domain or my addon domain. Regardless of how I upload them to the server, i.e. via FTP through Windows Explorer, Filezilla, or the CPanel, the files always show up on the server as type "text/generic".

 

I did try downloading an image from the server (that I had previously uploaded, and it was designated the text/x-generic type), and it shows as a normal jpeg on my computer.

 

username: fearles

server: stevie

domain: alphapete.com

 

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.

[Guest xaav]

Stevie is down right now, so I can't help you.

[Krydos]

Stevie is back online and fully functional now.

 

Are you still having this problem?

[AlphaPete]

I just tried uploading another image to my main images folder, alphapete.com/images/header2.jpg

 

In the CPanel, it still shows up as text/x-generic, and I cannot view the image if I point my browser to it.

[Krydos]

Oh that's interesting. It seems any of the images you upload with lowercase extensions work and any you upload with all caps extensions don't work.

 

Check out http://alphapete.com/images/

 

This works http://alphapete.com/images/moon.jpg

 

But this doesn't http://alphapete.com/images/header2.JPG

 

and gives this error

header2.JPG:-1Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type image/jpeg.

 

Easy fix is to just rename your files with a lowercase .jpg extension before you upload them. On a lot of windows and dos environments caps or lower names are interchangeable, but on most *nix environments caps and lower are interpreted differently.

[Piotr GRD]

Hmmm... For me it shows just fine. "Content-Type: image/jpeg"

 

alphapete.com/images/header2.JPG

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:32:29 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.16 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_mono/2.6.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_wsgi/3.3 Python/2.7.1
Last-Modified: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:16:19 GMT
ETag: "205402e-2f1-4ab0649ca70c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 753
Content-Type: image/jpeg

 

alphapete.com/images/moon.jpg

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:33:20 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.16 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_mono/2.6.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_wsgi/3.3 Python/2.7.1
Last-Modified: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:03:31 GMT
ETag: "2054113-725a-4a93b9e8c44c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 29274
Content-Type: image/jpeg

 

alphapete.com/images/sunset-rays-8-3-2011.jpg

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:37:12 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.16 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_mono/2.6.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_wsgi/3.3 Python/2.7.1
Last-Modified: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:58:33 GMT
ETag: "2054655-114cc-4a9b0e586d640"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 70860
Content-Type: image/jpeg

[Krydos]

Hmmm... For me it shows just fine. "Content-Type: image/jpeg"

Does it show up correctly in your browser when you try to view it though? Maybe it's browser specific error?

[Piotr GRD]

Yes, it shows up correctly as the image in Fx3.0 and IE6.

 

 

(don't comment on IE6, please, it just sits as default on XP, I don't really use IE - any version - so no need to upgrade)

[Krydos]

Yeah, it shows up correctly in all of my browsers too I guess. It's just 1 pixel wide and I didn't notice it at first.

 

I tried uploading .jpg and .JPG images to my own stevie account and I can't get the type to be set to text/x-generic that way. I guess it was just a coincidence. So much for that theory.

[AlphaPete]

I tried changing the extension from .JPG to .jpg, and it worked. A curiosity, no doubt, but I'll keep this in mind from now on. Thanks everyone for your help again!

 

-AlphaPete

[Krydos]

Sometimes my crazy theories pan out... I'm not going to question it; just going to chalk it up as a win.