[Mediawiki-l] power point upload?

[Jon Davis]

Try adding the following to your LocalSettings.php:

$wgVerifyMimeType = false;

IIRC Apache2 doesn't "get" the new Office 2007 (MIME) file formats
correctly.

-Jon

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 16:01, McHale, Nina <Nina.McHale at ucdenver.edu>wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I attempted to load a MS Power Point 2007 file (.pptx) to my wiki this
> afternoon, and I got the message that the file was corrupt or the wrong file
> type.
>
> I *did* set $wgFileExtensions array in LocalSettings.php to allow
> .ppt/.pptx files; any ideas?
>
> Oh, and thanks for all the answers to my first question about a root
> installation! :)
>
> Nina
>
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