Files published one way - d-loading different extension

[Neil M]

On my website I have some files that are .lms files. These were created by a
3rd party software to control light controllers. (The "lms" stands for
lighted musical sequence")
I publish them to the web as a link on a page and they are on the server
with the correct extension. However, if anyone clicks on them, they open as a
..XML file in explorer. Even if you right click it still saves as a .xml file.
If you change the extension once d-loaded to .lms they will work but this is
a hassle for people and they nver used to do this.

Can anyone think of a reason why this would be happening?

You can see for yourself at www.xmas.planetmonkman.com/lor.htm

This only happens with the Halloween ones at bottom of the page as I have
not published the christmas ones yet.

Any help would be appreciated.

Oh, in case you are wondering exactly what these files and software do, go
to the video page.

Neil M

 

[Kathleen Anderson]

You need to ask your web admin to set a mime type for those files so the
browser knows what to do with them.

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