Serving Text files without html extension as html pages

I have a large site that has a number of legacy html files with no extensions. The site was running under 10.3 just fine. Just reinstalled 10.4 and now these pages are rendered as plain text in the browser.
I've tried adding a blank entry in the extensions under the text/html mime/type setting but doing so creates an error which stops the server. I've got hundreds of these files stored for several years that I don't want to go back through and add a .html on the end of.
How can I get the web server to treat a file without an extension as an html file?

I know this isn't an answer to the question you're asking, but are you sure you want that behavior? There might be times where you want an extensionless file to be loaded as a plain text file. At the very least, it will help make your site more compatible.
If all these files are collected in the same area on your system, it might be best to give them the .html extension.
You can do this relatively painlessly with virtually any scripting language. I know I've even seen an AppleScript that will go through a batch and change the extension for you. You might want a modified one that will first check for the start/end HTML tags in the file first to make sure you're only changing HTML files. A quick Google search for scripting a filename change will probably yield lots of results (check Perl and PHP resource sites as well).

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