If you limit browser list to IE, you can used URL like file://C:/somewehre/somefile.doc Or else store your file file in webapps/xwiki but not in WEB-INF folder Arnaud 2010/1/9 Ziggy <ziggy25(a)gmail.com>om>:

Hi Ziggy, Actually that doesn't work on ff because it's a security issue: it cannot let web pages just access random files on your computer (see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work ). It's a security issue in general, not only for firefox, that's why linking to a file on the local filesystem does rarely make sense in web applications. Moving them to the webapps/xwiki will not make things better for the file:// links, but instead you'd be able to write links like: http://yourHost/xwiki/file.ext and they would work (on IE too). Happy hacking, Anca On 01/10/2010 02:25 PM, Ziggy wrote: