Hi,
I have a site with 2 pdf-forms. I'd like to force the browser to download them instead of opening in the browser window.
Site runs on apache with nginx proxy.

In the folder containing the 2 files I have this .htaccess:

<Files *.pdf>
  ForceType applicaton/octet-stream
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</Files>

the nginx virtualhostfile has
l

ocation ~* ^.+\.(htm|html|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|bz2|pdf|odt|txt|tar|bmp|rtf|js|swf|avi|mp4|mp3|ogg|flv)
(\?.*)?$ {
    expires 30d; #adjust to your static content's update frequency
    root /sites/public_html;
  }
  location ~ /\.ht { deny all; }
}

However, the browser keeps on opening the file instead of downloading it

Zip'm, then the browser doesn't have a choice but to save to disk.

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I know, but unzipping them is an extra step before they can be filled in , which is not user-friendly

Not sure if you were able to solve this or not, but this has worked for me in the past:

http://www.nakedmcse.com/Home/tabid/39/forumid/14/postid/42/scope/posts/Default.aspx

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