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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
