apple-app-site-association File Downloads Instead of Displaying JSON

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Symptoms

  • When opening the apple-app-site-association URL in the browser, the apple-app-site-association file gets downloaded instead of displaying the raw JSON content as expected.

Cause

This is due to a piece of optional code not appearing in the site.config.template file.

Solution

  1. To resolve this issue the following piece of code needs to be added to the site.config.template for the specific environment and website.

    location ~ ^/.well-known/apple-app-site-association$ { default_type application/json; }

More information

  • This is an optional configuration to prevent the file from downloading