[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki and Office Docs

[Tim Starling]

On 31/08/11 04:33, McHale, Nina wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> Sorry to spam the list with this problem yet AGAIN, but we're still
> not having luck getting MediaWiki to upload and download Office
> documents, specifically Word and PowerPoint documents.
> 
> We upgraded to 1.16.5 in May as part of an overall web upgrade, and
> that broke what we'd had in place before. .doc, .docx, .ppt, and
> .pptx were in the permitted files list, and things worked ok before
> then. After the upgrade, users got a message that files were
> corrupt. So, we implemented a solution that zipped
> files—specifically .docx and .pptx files—prior to uploading. The
> problem now is that when users download those two types of files,
> they are unzipped into all of their component pieces. Less than
> helpful, obviously. :)

1.17 has improved support for zip-like file formats such as MS Office
documents. They have been taken off the MIME type blacklist, since
there is no longer a security tradeoff associated with allowing them
to be uploaded. You should try upgrading.

-- Tim Starling