configuring nginx to serve static json files

Question

Switching to nginx for a site, one issue I'm having is serving up static json files.

I added to the mime types:

application/zip                         zip;
...
application/json                        json;
...

and restarted but it tried serving it up as a download (ie http://domain.com/json-tmp/locations.json). What else would I need to configure?

thx

Answer 1

I had to add

    application/json                      json;

in /etc/nginx/mime.types and restart nginx to make it work.

Answer 2

I know this post is quite old but adding application/json mime type to nginx configuration file plus restarting the server should work.

When you request the json file try to debug the response header and check if the Content-Type header was successfully changed to application/json.