Less CSS does not work on a HTTP server

Question

Basic Less CSS code works fine when run from local file system:

<link rel="stylesheet/less" href="style.less" type="text/css" />
<script src="less-1.0.21.min.js"></script>

But once I move my code to a HTTP server, Less CSS becomes unable to find the stylesheet file and all the styling gets broken. The server (App Engine) returns *.less as "octetstream" actually. I tried to copy "style.less" to "style.txt" but with no success.

What does Less CSS needs to work on servers?

I'm not 100% sure how less operates but my guess is that it uses ajax to fetch it and then parse it. So maybe it's a cross-domain issue? — Ilia Choly
– Ilia Choly, Commented Aug 3, 2011 at 13:24

fyr · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-03 11:05:15Z

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That depends heavily on your http server. But you can map in most webservers suffixes to mime types per configuration.

In apache something like this could be a solution

AddType text/css .less

See mod_mime

answered Aug 3, 2011 at 11:05

fyr

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