am 24.09.2009 12:33 schrieb Haim (Howard) Roman:
There are some file types that the Wiki developers considered too dangerous to allow to upload. So they're not allowed even if you think you've configured it to "allow everything". I don't know enough to defend or criticize this decision, but I assume the developers know what they're doing.
Ah, thanks for this insight. So I have to assume that "$wgCheckFileExtensions = false;" mean sometimes "false" and the error message is quite missleading:
"„.zip“ is not allowed. Allowed extensions: 7z, zip, rar," ^^^
This includes Open Office files. I'll bet it includes anything with XML.
I have *no* problems to upload ".odt", ".ods", ".odg" etc.
I designated a place covered by an apache server to place such files, then defined a template to take the file name & convert it to the appropriate link. That way, if I move the location, I can just update the template.
I'm using the same approch by placing some (mostly the big ones) files to an MW-external place and linking it inside of MW
Cheers, Peter