My Android smartphone can't download apk from my Apache server, is it a Mime-type issue?

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I have MyApplication.apk in a directory named downloads on my Tomcat Apache server, and I made a link to that file in a web page so my Android Smartphone would be able to download and install it. However, it can't download it, whereas my PC web browser can.

I did some research on Stackoverflow (this subject for example) and the web, and found out that I had to add the mime-type for apk files in my server (in the file web.xml in the project named Server in Eclipse). I did that.

I also saw that I had to create an .htaccess, place it in the contexts I called, and write a line to add apk mime-type. I also did that.

But I still can't download my apk in my smartphone web browser ! Does anyone has an idea ?

NB : I use Eclipse to run my Apache Tomcat. My application is signed and its weight is 1.5MB.

the download lasts forever until I stop it. I want to add I have a valid Internet connection (3G+) which works very well with others downloads (e.g. APKs from other sources, other files...). — cleroo, Aug 23 '12 at 15:39
How do you know it lasts forever ? Doesn't it show up in the list of downloads in the browser ? — Philippe Girolami, Aug 23 '12 at 15:41
Yes it shows up but there is not title for the downloaded file, and the progress bar is undeterminated. — cleroo, Aug 23 '12 at 15:42
Humm.. that's strange, I serve APKs through apache 2 all the time without even adding the mime type. Is your internal flash disk full ? — Philippe Girolami, Aug 23 '12 at 15:46
No it is not. I have to run Apache on Windows (a wish of the company I work for), so I didn't find /etc/conf and others useful folders for configurating Apache — cleroo, Aug 23 '12 at 15:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '19 at 09:42

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Should put mime-type:application/vnd.android.package-archive

answered Jun 27 '19 at 09:42

Benjamin Harel

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My Android smartphone can't download apk from my Apache server, is it a Mime-type issue?

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