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Wiki not accepting zips?

· Troubleshooting · 5 posts · Jul 19, 2009 — Aug 4, 2009 View original thread ↗

#1 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 - 03:50

I wanted to update a file and get this error in Safari & Firefox:

"Files of the MIME type "application/zip" are not allowed to be uploaded."

I can upload Stuff-Its however. :-/

#2 Sat, 1 Aug 2009 - 19:24

It's a setting in mediawiki, I had to configure mine at stenoweb.net/wiki/ specifically to allow PDF files for example.

TL could probably change the setting, what is it that necessitates uploading a zip file?

#3 Sat, 1 Aug 2009 - 19:33

ZIPs are in the list of allowed extensions... so I'm not sure what the problem is really...

#4 Sat, 1 Aug 2009 - 20:50

It seems that MediaWiki doesn't allow uploading of ZIP files due to security issues. Why specifically do you need to use ZIPs?

#5 Tue, 4 Aug 2009 - 21:02

Why specifically do you need to use ZIPs?

Probably in response to a comment I'd made about putting fonts in a more universal format. I, for one, use them on my non-Mac systems to make them feel homier.