diff --git a/templates/logs-dev.vhost.erb b/templates/logs-dev.vhost.erb
index 0700b5c..bd11bde 100644
--- a/templates/logs-dev.vhost.erb
+++ b/templates/logs-dev.vhost.erb
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ NameVirtualHost <%= @vhost_name %>:<%= @port %>
   WSGIProcessGroup logs-dev
   WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
 
+  AddType text/plain .log
+  AddType text/plain .sh
+  AddType text/plain .yaml
+  AddType text/plain .yml
+
   # use Apache to compress the results afterwards, to save on the wire
   # it's approx 18x savings of wire traffic to compress. We need to
   # compress by content types that htmlify can produce
@@ -45,6 +50,15 @@ NameVirtualHost <%= @vhost_name %>:<%= @port %>
     ForceType image/svg+xml
     AddEncoding x-gzip gz
   </FilesMatch>
+  <FilesMatch \.json\.gz$>
+    ForceType application/json
+    AddEncoding x-gzip gz
+  </FilesMatch>
+  <FilesMatch \.css$>
+    # mod_mime_magic is sometimes passing css files as asm sources
+    # e.g css files generated by coverage reports
+    ForceType text/css
+  </FilesMatch>
   <Directory <%= @docroot %>>
     Options <%= @options %>
     AllowOverride None
@@ -63,6 +77,10 @@ NameVirtualHost <%= @vhost_name %>:<%= @port %>
   </Directory>
 <% end -%>
 
+  <Directory <%= @docroot %>/periodic*/*>
+     IndexOrderDefault Descending Date
+  </Directory>
+
   RewriteEngine On
 <% if @ara_middleware -%>
   <Directory "/usr/local/bin">
@@ -96,15 +114,15 @@ NameVirtualHost <%= @vhost_name %>:<%= @port %>
   RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f
   RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ %{REQUEST_URI}.gz
 
-  # rewrite txt.gz & console.html[.gz] files to map to our internal htmlify
-  # wsgi app
+  # rewrite (txt|log).gz & console.html[.gz] files to map to our
+  # internal htmlify wsgi app
   # PT, Pass-through:  to come back around and get picked up by the
   #                    WSGIScriptAlias
   # NS, No-subrequest: on coming back through, mod-autoindex may have added
   #                    index.html which would match the !-f condition. We
   #                    therefore ensure the rewrite doesn't trigger by
   #                    disallowing subrequests.
-  RewriteRule ^/(.*\.txt\.gz)$ /htmlify/$1 [QSA,L,PT,NS]
+  RewriteRule ^/(.*\.(txt|log)\.gz)$ /htmlify/$1 [QSA,L,PT,NS]
   RewriteRule ^/(.*console\.html(\.gz)?)$ /htmlify/$1 [QSA,L,PT,NS]
 
   # Check if the request exists as a file, directory or symbolic link