On Friday 01 December 2006 12:28, अिनकॆत (Aniket) wrote: > I am using fedora core 5. > I have my apache running perfectly. > I have document root as /var/www/html > There is a direcory "transfer" inside "/var/www/html" > But when I put any *.doc file in "transfer", no one can access it. > But they can access PDF files and all other files from the same > directory , with same permissions set on all files.I tried settin > chmod 755 on the files again. Still pdf, zip etc files go perfect , > no luck with .doc files. I also upgraded to latest version of Apache > too(2.2.2), still not working. > > I also tried lighttpd as suggested by a friend, same problem there. > > Also I am not able to upload .doc files as mail attachments in > gmail/yahoo mail using Opera/Firefox/Konqueror. I can attach all > other types of files though. > > So basically, its like .doc files are not going out of my box to > anyone in any manner....I have disabled SElinux at boot itself. I am > at my wits end...dunno what to do..please help.
Hmm...i have FC5 too. Havent faced such an issue yet. Did you talk to the guys @ #fedora on freenode? Did they give you any pointers? This is seriously weird... did you try renaming the file as .<something else> and then trying to perform the same operations? -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

