By joegraduate on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
11.1.x
Introduced in version: 
11.1.0
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/3310963
Description: 

A directive has been added to core's default .htaccess file that attaches the correct image/webp header for webp images when the MIME Apache module is enabled. This is needed for sites hosted on Apache web servers running on operating systems that do not support the webp image MIME type.

--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -184,3 +184,7 @@ AddEncoding gzip svgz
   # Disable Proxy header, since it's an attack vector.
   RequestHeader unset Proxy
 </IfModule>
+
+<IfModule mod_mime.c>
+  AddType image/webp .webp
+</IfModule>
Impacts: 
Site builders, administrators, editors