am 24.09.2009 12:33 schrieb Haim (Howard) Roman:
> There are some file types that the Wiki developers considered too
> dangerous to allow to upload.  So they're not allowed even if you
> think you've configured it to "allow everything".  I don't know enough
> to defend or criticize this decision, but I assume the developers know
> what they're doing.

Ah, thanks for this insight. So I have to assume that
"$wgCheckFileExtensions = false;" mean sometimes "false" and the error
message is quite missleading:

"„.zip“ is not allowed. Allowed extensions: 7z, zip, rar,"
                                                ^^^
> This includes Open Office files.  I'll bet it includes anything with XML.

I have *no* problems to upload ".odt", ".ods", ".odg" etc.

> I designated a place covered by an apache server to place such files,
> then defined a template to take the file name & convert it to the
> appropriate link.  That way, if I move the location, I can just update
> the template.

I'm using the same approch by placing some (mostly the big ones) files
to an MW-external place and linking it inside of MW

Cheers,
Peter

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