On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Winterlight wrote:
I have a number of Godaddy web sites. I have chosen Linux servers on three of
them, and a windows server on one of them. Last May, I was notified that my
site had been moved to a different server. This resulted in my password
.htaccess page no longer working. I had a page with a number of links to .wmv
files, which were located in a folder named /video. After the move when I
clicked on the links I got a page with this on it.
0&?u?f???
I checked the paths, changed the path, removed, and then recreated the site,
but no matter what I did the wmv files would not play. Then I discovered the
same problem on every Linux site I had hosted with Godaddy. So I tried
changing the video file extension to avi. The files played. Media player
reported the wrong file type, and then played the file. So I knew something
was wrong on the server.
So I called Godaddy, and told them that .htaccess was no longer protecting my
directory, and I could not play wmv. files. It moved up the tech chain until
it reached an "expert" who came up with this.
In order to resolve the issue with .wmv not playing, you will need to create
an .htaccess file that registers the MIME type.The .htaccess file should have
line that looks like the following:
AddType video/x-ms-wmv wmv
And of course, this doesn't solve my .htaccess protected folder problem.
Does anybody have any idea what is wrong with their Server?
thanks
Most likely there is a mime-type setup incorrect, I do believe you can
setup the mime-type in htaccess, but from what I can see, they're ignoring
htaccess completely (Otherwise you would be able to restrict access based
on it.)
The first thing you need to do is get the passwords working, once you have
that done, you can work on fixing the mime-types declaration on the
server, or probably easier, just add the type to the [A] tag.
[A HREF="your_video_file_here" type="video/x-ms-wmv"]Play Video[/a]
Christopher Fisk
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