Hi Kevin,
did you add "file://" to $wgUrlProtocols in LocalSettings.php?
$wgUrlProtocols = array( 'http://', 'https://', 'ftp://', 'irc://', 'gopher://', 'telnet://', // Well if we're going to support the above.. -ævar 'nntp://', // @bug 3808 RFC 1738 'worldwind://', 'mailto:', 'news:' 'file://' );
Cheers, Jimmy
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Gesendet: 17.07.06 22:06:34 An: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Betreff: [Mediawiki-l] UNC links?
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but is there any way to allow linking of UNC addresses via MediaWiki 1.7.1? Since the Wiki is run internally, I'm not too worried about issues such as authentication or accessibility... If someone's windows account doesn't have access to the UNC share, they don't need to have access via the Wiki... Currently, I've tried treating it like an HTML link and using file:///\UNCShare/Path file:///\\UNCShare\Path which didn't work... and a few other methods... any suggestions? I'd really like it to handle just like a normal link... For the time being, though, I'm just having people put it in as plain text and if someone needs to follow the link, they copy the text and then paste it into Start --> Run... It's not a pretty method, but it works ;)
Thanks!
--Kevin Fairchild
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On 7/17/06, Jimmy Collins Jimmy.Collins@web.de wrote:
Hi Kevin,
did you add "file://" to $wgUrlProtocols in LocalSettings.php?
Also, what browser is being used? Once you add 'file://' as Jimmy stated, it should work just fine for IE... However, if you use Firefox, take a look here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work
The mistake I made at first was to replace www.example.com with the destination of the local link... it needs to be the server that is actually serving the link rather than the content.
For example, if your wiki is wiki.host.com and you are trying to link to file://///internalserver/file.htm:
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess"); user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://wiki.host.com"); user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
Then you can create your link in your wiki to [file://///internalserver/file.htm].
HTH
Dan
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