I have setup a HTML Server to run on Windows Server 2012. I have added few virtual directories and some files.
I am trying to download a file firmware.dob. But when I click on the file the browser reports "File not found"
404 - File or directory not found.
As an admin, how do i enable users/make the browser to download file rather that try to open it?
This should be done by PHP. If you have just HTML i don't think this can be solved. In PHP you could set a Header. Perhaps you can use your admin tools of your server to set some properties of the file you're talking about. maybe the server gives you the option to force download prompts.
If you can only use HTML you might consider using a flash plugin for this. But this would only work on desktops, not on mobile phones. You could look into this: Creating download prompt using purely javascript
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I have MediaWiki installed on a synology server. I would like to create a link on the wiki that would allow opening of files on the same server.
Here are the steps I did to achieve this:
Added $wgUrlProtocols[] = "file://"; in LocalSettings.php
A test file on the server: file://myServerName/path/to/file/test.txt. Putting this URL in my chrome browser directly opens the file.
Create a page in MediaWiki with a link to this file using [[file://myServerName/path/to/file/test.txt]]
When I click on the generated wiki page, nothing happens. However when I hover on top of the link, it shows the correct URL.
Can someone please point out what additional steps I need to do to get this working?
The file:// protocol points to the file on your computer. I'm not fully sure, but I think you cannot use it to retrieve file from a different machine (read my comment below about samba shares).
From quick research it looks like Chrome browser blocks requests with file:// protocol, But browsers like IE should allow you to open those files. It is done because of security reasons so the malicious site cannot open local files without your permission. You might bypass that by installing a special plugin in Chrome (look for Enable file links)
Instead of using file protocol, make those files available via Synology WebStation, and then create links that point to the file via webstation (not via path on the server). With that approach, links attached on your MediaWiki pages will work as those will be regular links.
If you don't use the WebStation, you might also try with ftp:// links (use the FTP service), or link to samba shares - that's where the file:// protocol might work, but again - I'm not sure and I cannot test it as I do not use windows.
I think that the safest/easiest/fastest way is to expose those files via WebStation.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme
The file URI scheme is a URI scheme defined in RFC 8089, typically used to retrieve files from within one's own computer.
When I select a html file to open "in browser" in Webstorm it works and it opens under the localhost. The issue I'm having is that this webstorm internal server is not detecting any of the other paths in my project root like images and javascript files.
I should note that this feature has worked before on other projects I started from scratch using "new project." The difference with this project is that I opened a directory as a project.
The built-in webserver serves files from http://localhost:<built-in server port>/<project root>. Forward slashes in URLs tell the browser to resolve them relative to the web server root (localhost:63342 in your case), causing 404 errors.
If you like to change the default web path on built-in web server, you have to re-configure the server by editing your system hosts file accordingly - see http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-8988#comment=27-577559.
I have the windows application installed, Live Reload extension for chrome and i'm using Sublime Text with Live Refresh and Live Reload plugins. For some reason any HTML doc i edit on sublime text is not auto updating on chrome. The extension is stuck on "Live Reload is connecting" when i enable it. What exactly am i missing, do i need to setup a local web server or something like that?
I think your issue may be that you did not add the folder that contains your HTML document to the LiveReload windows application so that it can monitor for changes to the file.
If you open up the LiveReload app, it should have a list of site folders. Try adding your test project's folder to the list.
If you load from local file it does work you must runt the local file through a web server e.g python -m http.server in the folder your .html exists otherwise the option match to local file never appears and then you can have the save and reload functionality.
I mention it because I hadn't found the problem through reading the post
I am using HTML 5 Geolocations API's for tracking location however I am getting the following error on the Geolocation icon in Chrome Browser
"This Page has been blocked from tracking your Location"
I went to the Preferences and Setting's Page but did not find any help.
In my case the problem was that I opened the HTML file from the file system (file:///...). Browsers generally try to prevent accessing personal information (which includes location) from local files, so you have to serve the file through a web server (even if it is local).
One simple way to serve a static website located in your filesystem is SimpleHTTPServer if you have Python installed. Just navigate to the folder using the command prompt, and say python -m SimpleHTTPServer, and then you can view the file on localhost:8000.
Even I was facing the same problem. One of the solution is to open to file in another browser, I tried in Firefox and it worked fine. Another solution is to open the file through your WAMP server (Local host).
There is a good article here about Geolocation API. You have to go to chrome://settings/content and there, you can find Location information. You should be able to find the exceptions and manage them there.
i am creating a web page to show the contents of a folder so that people can view the files and download them if needed.
Click here to view Folder
But i wanna do this without any coding what so ever, i found this code which lets me view files.
The problem i am facing is that when i double click the html page and open it this hyperlink works and i get what i need but when i access the page through a server (IIS 7) then the hyperlink does nothing ?
am i to set some permissions or what ?
can someone tell me what im doing wrong ?
The link will work when the file you want to download is on your own personal computer, which in your case is true if you're just showing the HTML file locally. It won't be true for users visiting your website from another computer though.
If you want to serve the file on a server, you need to link to the path on the server itself, that is, if the file is in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_pages, your A HREF looks like this:
Click here to view Folder
Offcourse, this will work for simple files. For folders, you need to enable the webserver to show directory contents by enabling Directory Browsing.
There are security implications of linking to a local file from an online source. It works when the page is held locally but when on a server it puts a stop to it.
You can also use linux build-in command Tree, in example below you can see that i only want to add files that are matching .tar.gz or .zip or .tar.bz2
tree -P "*.tar.gz|*.zip|*.tar.bz2" -h -D --dirsfirst -r -H . > index.html;
You can also add a custom css to the page for a better looking output.
Straighforward and highly secure since the result is only html
as you use windows you can use www.cygwin.com to emulate a linux environement