: Change name of audio file for download I have some mp3 files which are named "my-audio.mp3" but now the client wants the visitor to be able to download and save these files to their desktop.

@BetL925

Apache can be configured to follow symbolic links. I tested creating a symbolic link for the desired name to the old name. On the command line I did:

ln -s My-Music.mp3 MyMusic.mp3


After which, Apache was happy to serve up the file at either localhost/My-Music.mp3 or localhost/MyMusic.mp3
To make it work you just have to have the correct option turned on in your .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks

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@Speyer207

You can do this in PHP like so:

<?php
// We set the file type here
header('Content-Type: audio/mpeg');

// un-comment this line if you want to enforce download and comment the line above
// Content-Type "application/force-download"

// It will be called MyAudio.mp3
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="MyAudio.mp3"');

// The MP3 Source
readfile('the-original-filename.mp3');
?>

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