# Updating mime.types

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-mime-types/185034>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [March 12, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-mime-types/185034 "2010-03-12T03:03:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jools\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Jools\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jools_W)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-mime-types/185034/1 "2010-03-12T03:03:43Z")

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Since i’ve been running nginx, i have updated my mime.types a bunch of  
times adding new archive formats and so on. such as lha, gz, lzx, and  
plenty more.

Do you accept changes to this file, or is it considered up to the user?  
We could expand this somewhat., I also wonder if it might be nice if it  
could use /etc/mime.types on linux (and others) as some other webservers  
do ?

thoughts?

Best Regards

Jools