Forced download of a file instead of viewing it in the browser, how to do it?

Question

PHP

Hello everyone, I need to force download files with the extension .7z on Wordpress.
There is such a trick, create a .htaccess file in the folder in which the files are located, and enter this into it.

<files *.7z>
  forceType application/octet-stream
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</files>

But the fact is that in Wordpress my folders are automatically created by date.
Is it possible to somehow correct this code so that it would be applied not only to the parent folder, but also to the child one.
For example, I created .htaccess in the uploads folder , but it will also apply to internal uploads/2016/11/file.7z

Answer 1

The issue was resolved by writing the following line in the root .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
AddType application/zip .zip .zip .7z

Answer 2

And if you go by the method of adding to the download attribute link
htmlbook.ru/html/a/download

Answer 3

You can use JS - stackoverflow.com/questions/3077242/force-download...