Forcing a download using <filesMatch> in htaccess

Question

I'm trying to force the download of all files of one folder.

The link on the page looks like this

<a href="http://example.com/uploads/documents/file.pdf">Click to download</a>

And I have this snippet in my .htaccess

<filesMatch ".*uploads/documents.*">
    ForceType application/octet-stream
    Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</filesMatch>

I already know that the 2 lines inside the tag works, because it works when I put a .htaccess directly inside the folder where I want to force the download with the following code:

<Files *.*>
    ForceType application/octet-stream
    Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</Files>

There seems to be something which I don't understand about the filesMatch tag.

Answer 1

Searching more info found this code:

<FilesMatch "\.(mov|mp3|jpg|pdf|mp4|avi|wmv)$">
   ForceType application/octet-stream
   Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>

Worked for me.