According to this: Javascript MIME Type, it seems that I should be serving my JS as "text/javascript". When I inspect the network communication between my browser and localhost (or my server), the MIME type of the JS that are hosted on my web server is application/x-javascript. The JS from Google CDN (e.g. jQuery) is text/javascript.
I want to make my JS become text/javascript. In my .htaccess, I tried adding this: AddType text/javascript .js, but it didn't change my MIME type.
Suggestions?
The AddType directive should be sufficient enough unless there's something that's forcing the type, but you can also try:
<Files "*.js">
ForceType text/javascript
</Files>
A better solution may be to look through your vhost/server config and all of the apache config files (that may be included by default in your config) for instances of application/x-javascript to see how that's being set. It may be better to just change it there instead of htaccess file, which may not have the neccessary override options (mod_mime's AddType and ForceType, for example, require the FileInfo AllowOverride option).
you need to change your settings in mimes.types file found in your apache conf folder. Change
application/javascript js
to
text/javascript js
and restart apache, you should see the change
application/javascript. No browser cares if it isapplication/x-javascriptthough. The best way to fix that would be to upgrade the underlying system, which has an out of date mime.types file.application/javascriptis the "proper" MIME type, I'm trying to do as Google and usetext/javascript.application/x-javascriptappears on both my WAMP and LAMP system. I'm thinking that somehow my code, .htaccess, etc. is the culprit.