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I have a few PHP files that are used to create webpages that allow users to download excel spreadsheets. These PHP files were on a windows 2003 server running apache 2.0 and they work properly on this server. When I open a browser and navigate to the webpage I am able to click on the download button for the excel spread sheet and windows asks if I would like to download or save the file. I moved the same PHP files to a windows 2012 r2 server and I am now using xammp with apache 2.2.14 and the excel spreadsheet now opens in a webpage instead of asking to be downloaded. I am not sure how to force this file to ask to be downloaded.

The mime type is responsible for the behaviour of your browser, google for "Apache excel mime type".

where do i adjust the mime type at? I have a folder in xammp under apache\conf called mime types but it does not look like what I found online.

google for "xampp mime types"

I have googled xammp mime types and the mime type for excel files is already in the proper file but the excel file still opens as an html webpage

Ofcourse you must change the file type, try any compressed type or unknown or so, the browser then does not know that it is excel and offers a simple download.

The file type is set to excel and it opens properly on a windows 2003 server running the same code it just does not work on a 2012 R2 server