I went through the FAQ and couldn't find anything. There were no examples about linking to a file on a network or local machine. Now that you told me to go there I went again and still nothing. I checked the discussion page and saw something about adding $wgUrlProtocols[] = 'file://;' to LocalSettings.php. I did this and still nothing. -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:29 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] external file links using file:// On 11/08/06, Frederich, Eric P2173 <eric.frederich(a)siemens.com> wrote: Read the FAQ. Rob Church _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Well...I guess there was a typo on the discussion page because it had 'file://;' instead of 'file://'; I fixed it here.... http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help_talk%3AFAQ&diff=36884&a… did=36471 Anyway, now that I corrected it in my LocalSettings.php the links are there but they don't work from Firefox but that is a different issue I guess. I guess I will try this one now and see how it works. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EdmundMielach/FileProtocolLinks -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Frederich, Eric P2173 Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 1:40 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] external file links using file:// I went through the FAQ and couldn't find anything. There were no examples about linking to a file on a network or local machine. Now that you told me to go there I went again and still nothing. I checked the discussion page and saw something about adding $wgUrlProtocols[] = 'file://;' to LocalSettings.php. I did this and still nothing. -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:29 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] external file links using file:// On 11/08/06, Frederich, Eric P2173 <eric.frederich(a)siemens.com> wrote: Read the FAQ. Rob Church _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

I appreciate your help. I came across this article as well. My problem is that to address our wiki we are just using the hostname i.e. http://servername/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Adding the following to my user.js file did nothing. user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks"); user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://servername"); user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess"); I did a test and added another domain that we use to my user.js file and it worked (kind of) so I know that I put the file in the right place when I tried it with just the server name. Even when I got it working with a domain that actually ended in .net it still didn't work all that well. Middle clicking on it opened an empty browser window. Single clicking on it did nothing, but I was able to right click and save it which is more than I was able to do before I added it to the user.js. Anyway, this is beyond the scope of the mediawiki list. Personally I don't see how it is a security problem for a browser to open a link to a local intranet server or something on your own hard drive. If some random web site has placed a mischievous file on your internal file server or your own machine then you've already got a problem. ~Eric -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dan Davis Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 3:18 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] external file links using file:// On 8/11/06, Frederich, Eric P2173 <eric.frederich(a)siemens.com> wrote: Check out this article for Firefox access to file:// links: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work Dan _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l