update TODO and explain mime-types in web.xml

[mir.git] / doc / INSTALL.mir

diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.mir b/doc/INSTALL.mir
index c9bfd64..25b6545 100755 (executable)
--- a/doc/INSTALL.mir
+++ b/doc/INSTALL.mir
@@ -141,8 +141,18 @@ in Mir/src nor in Mir/WEB-INF/classes nor in the directory tree you compiled
 Mir from) is world-readable. Else you wouldn't have to install a password,
 anyway.
 
+9e. Tweak mime-type extensions mappings in etc/web.xml file.
 
-9e. Setup PostgreSQL so that all connections have to pass a password
+*** Note the defaults should be o.k for most installations ***
+
+Add or remove any mime types you wish to support. This is used to figure
+out the mime-type when (broken browsers?) browsers don't send the mime-type
+in the content-type header field when uploading a media file. Note add the
+moment you still have to add these to the media_type SQL table as well which
+maps the mime-types to the correct mediaHandler class. See the comments in
+the MirMedia class in javadoc for more details.
+
+9f. Setup PostgreSQL so that all connections have to pass a password
 
 In /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf you should make sure that nobody can
 use the database without a password: