When placed into an .htaccess file or a <Directory> , or <Location> or <Files> section, this directive forces all matching files to be served with the content type identification given by media-type. For example, if you had a directory full of GIF files, but did not want to label them all with .gif , you might want to use:

ForceType image/gif

Note that this directive overrides other indirect media type associations defined in mime.types or via the AddType .

You can also override more general ForceType settings by using the value of None :

# force all files to be image/gif:
<Location "/images">
 ForceType image/gif
</Location>
# but normal mime-type associations here:
<Location "/images/mixed">
 ForceType None
</Location>

This directive primarily overrides the content types generated for static files served out of the filesystem. For resources other than static files, where the generator of the response typically specifies a Content-Type, this directive has no effect.