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.