diff --git a/config/nginx.sample.conf b/config/nginx.sample.conf
index fe6cd8019..efb23d939 100644
--- a/config/nginx.sample.conf
+++ b/config/nginx.sample.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Additional MIME types that you'd like nginx to handle go in here
+types {
+    text/csv                    csv;
+}
+
 upstream discourse {
   server unix:/var/www/discourse/tmp/sockets/thin.0.sock;
   server unix:/var/www/discourse/tmp/sockets/thin.1.sock;