Make special file extensions downlodable

nova4x

Hi and this solution probably is very simple for an expert, but my skills are very poor and I had to google around hours to find it

I manage a FLARUM PRODUCTION SITE and we exchange "strange extension" files for the forex trading platform Metatrader

These extensions are .mq4 .mq5 .ex4 .ex5 .cAlgo and by default FLARUM (or my hosting... I don't know) displays a page with the code... but you can't copy and paste it because it looses the correct format

At the end I find this simple solution and I hope it can help others

Simply add this line at the end of your .htaccess file in the root of your FLARUM site using whatever text editor you want

AddType application/octet-stream .mq4 .mq5 .ex4 .ex5 .cAlgo

Then ftp or upload the .htaccess and restart your site (if your hosting gives you this option) or simply... wait

In my case I can't directly stop and restart my site, so the solution didn't work immediately but the following day it was operative without further problem

...as I told only a two cents solution but I spent hours to find it ?

clarkwinkelmann

That's exactly how it should be done.

The other solution would be to have a "download script" that returns the file along with the correct header. That's the kind of things there would be in an "attachement" extension (we still don't have one unfortunately)

Ralkage

clarkwinkelmann

I thought https://discuss.flarum.org/d/4154-flagrow-file-upload-the-intelligent-file-attachment-extension supported other file extensions?

luceos

Ralkage it simply provides a link to your uploaded file. It needs some work on providing the files proxied through php to add security and headers.

clarkwinkelmann

I just discovered the download attribute for links. You can use it to force download (I didn't try it myself yet)

You can create a dumb extension to add a BBCode for it.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=download