Haim and Ray, thanks so much for your responses! Very sorry I didn't include the error message in my initial email, which is:
The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again. And Ray, yes, sanity check checks out, file upload max is 40 MB, and all Office doc types and extensions are allowed. :) I'm testing a very small file, an empty .docx file, to no avail. Haim, thanks for sharing your alternative to this issue, which I will definitely try if I can't resolve the issue. Nina Nina McHale, MA/MSLS Assistant Professor, Web Librarian University of Colorado, Auraria Library Facebook & Twitter: ninermac http://milehighbrarian.net On 3/10/11 1:17 AM, "Haim (Howard) Roman" <[email protected]> wrote: Some file types are considered dangerous, and you need extra steps to allow them. And this is something you normally shouldn't do. References: * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgMimeTypeBlacklist * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgFileBlacklist * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads#Configuring_file_types 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 http://mysite.org/wiki-aux/a.doc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Nina, On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:37, McHale, Nina <[email protected]> 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 <http://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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
