[Mediawiki-l] link to windows network drive possible ? (solved)

Wed Dec 7 08:04:56 UTC 2005

Thanks Bob, this works pretty well 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org 
> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church
> Sent: Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2005 13:22
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] link to windows network drive possible ?
> 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:%24wgUrlProtocols explains the
> configuration option needed to add the file:// URL protocol to
> MediaWiki's list of allowed protocols. In this case, add the line:
> 
> $wgUrlProtocols .= '|file:\/\/';
> 
> to your LocalSettings.php file
> 
> 
> Rob Church
> 
> On 06/12/05, Isaac Gonzalez <youngi at comcast.net> wrote:
> > try using a mapped network drive and use:
> >
> > file:///<driveletter>|/<pathtofile>/filename
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ben Arnold (DSLWN)" <BenA at datacom.co.nz>
> > To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
> > <mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
> > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 2:05 PM
> > Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] link to windows network drive possible ?
> >
> >
> > Normally you'd be able to do this with a file URL.
> >
> > [file://server/folder1 the text to link from]
> >
> > Notice how the Windows backslashes become slashes in a file URL.
> >
> > This doesn't seem to work on MediaWiki. This is probably a 
> good thing in
> > general since there's not much use for it outside of a shared
> > filesystem. It could also be a security risk.
> >
> > Others might be able to tell you how to hack MediaWiki to 
> get this to
> > work. If you find out, let me know. I'd be interested in 
> doing this on
> > my wiki too.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
> > [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 
> Reiser, Markus
> > Sent: Monday, 5 December 2005 11:26 p.m.
> > To: mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org
> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] link to windows network drive possible ?
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > is there a possibility in MediaWiki to create an external link to a
> > windows network folder like
> > \\server\folder1   ????
> >
> > It does not work using syntax of external or internal links ;-(
> >
> > Hope you can help me !
> > Thanks
> >
> > Markus
> >
> >
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