Some file types are considered dangerous, and you need extra steps to allow
them. And this is something you normally shouldn't do. References:
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I set up a special directory for such files (I call it an "auxiliary"
site). They're web-accessible there. And I defined a template to build the
correct URL to point to that template. E.g.,
{{aux|a.doc|The DOC file version}}
Yields the string "The DOC file version" that is a link to
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Haim (Howard) Roman
Computer Center, Jerusalem College of Technology
Phone: 052-8-592-599 (6022 from within Machon Lev)
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:38, Raymond Wan <r.wan(a)aist.go.jp> wrote:
Hi Nina,
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:37, McHale, Nina <Nina.McHale(a)ucdenver.edu>
wrote:
I have been having trouble uploading Word and
PowerPoint documents to our
wiki. I added the file types .doc, .docx, .ppt, and
.pptx to
$wgFileExtensions in LocalSettings.php, and it appears as though others ARE
able to upload these types of files, because, well, they're there. This came
up again because one person wanted to upload a .docx file, and while he was
able to upload .doc files, he did not have any luck with .docx. I have not
altered the mime.info or mime.types files; I just looked over the
documentation for that, but I'm not sure that's the right place to be
looking.
And I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm using Safari/Firefox
on
a Mac, and most others are using PCs with Firefox/IE.
I'm not entirely sure the cause of your problem, but I don't think the
browser would matter -- someone else can correct me.
So, when you go to "Upload file", .docx is listed as a possible
option. Just a sanity check to make sure $wgFileExtensions changes
are taken...
The other thing you might want to see is the size of the file that you
are uploading. There are size limits and maybe your .docx file just
happens to be larger than the ones that are already up there. Or
maybe they were uploaded at a time before a particular configuration
was changed; and maybe that change has now broken the upload process
some how.
What kind of error message do you get when you upload something? When
I was trying to configure uploads, putting the error message in Google
helped me find the solution. See for example the steps listed here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads
Hope this helps.
Ray
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