How to set default content type for all non-error apache responses?

Question

I want all apache non-error responses to be sent with content-type 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'. How do I make it?

I've tried adding:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    AddType 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'
</VirtualHost>

But this requires specifying file extension, I don't want to bind to file extensions since I'm not requesting specific files, but resources like this:

http://my.domain.com/rest/articles/

I've also tried DefaultType directive:

<VirtualHost *:80>
      DefaultType 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'
</VirtualHost>

but this doesn't seem to be working - Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8 is returned. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

You can use Apache's ForceType directive, explained in the documentation. You have to use it in a Directory, Location, or Files context. For JSON, you'd want to use ForceType application/json. So, in your vhost, you'd likely want to do something like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
     <Location />
          ForceType application/json
     </Location>
</VirtualHost>