Name

AddLanguage

Synopsis

AddLanguage MIME-lang extension [extension] ...
Server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess

The AddLanguage directive maps the given filename extension to the specified content language. MIME-lang is the MIME language of filenames containing extensions. This mapping is added to any already in force, overriding any mappings that already exist for the same extension. For example:

AddEncoding x-compress .Z
AddLanguage en .en
AddLanguage fr .fr

Then the document xxxx.en.Z will be treated as a compressed English document (as will the document xxxx.Z.en). Although the content language is reported to the client, the browser is unlikely to use this information. The AddLanguage directive is more useful for content negotiation, where the server returns one from several documents based on the client’s language preference.

If multiple language assignments are made for the same extension, the last one encountered is the one that is used. That is, for the case of:

AddLanguage en .en
AddLanguage en-uk .en
AddLanguage en-us .en

documents with the extension .en would be treated as being en-us.

The extension argument is case insensitive and can be specified with or without a leading dot.