My apologies! This is not a problem with the wiki,
as I'm sure most of you have already realized.
The problem was caused because I am using Firefox and
by default it does not allow access to the file system
via links with the file: protocol.
IE works fine.
There is a description of the file based URL at
Wikipedia that also has a link to solve the problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:_URL
Sorry for the inconvenience!
-----Original Message-----
From: Graham,Neil [NCR]
Sent: April 4, 2006 2:14 PM
To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org
Subject: [xwiki-users] File URL not working in 0.9.840?
Greetings,
I have just downloaded and installed Xwiki 0.9.840 and it seems to be
running fine, but I cannot link to files or directories on my windows
file system using the file: protocol.
This is what was suggested in the FAQ
(
http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Doc/HowDoICreateALinkToAFile )
And I have tried many variations of the URL to link to both local files
(file:///<dir>, file://<dir>, file://c|/<dir>, etc.) and network
(file://<host>/<dir>, file://///<host>/<dir>, etc.).
This does not appear to work, even though I've done the same thing on
other wikis (JSPWiki syntax: file:/host/<dir>) and it works fine.
The FAQ says it should work. Does anyone have any help?
I find xwiki to be a superior wiki, but if I can't do this
I will have to switch to another one.