I updated a website and changed to using svg files for our header. On our test setup, we were running RHEL7, which had a newer version of httpd than what’ on our production server, which is running RHEL5. I had to add the following to our httpd.conf file to tell it to specifically serve svg files.

# Need to serve svg files at image/svg+xml
# Using svg files in header for new pages, updated April 2015
AddType image/svg+xml svg svgz
AddEncoding gzip svgz