How to fix "The extension ppt is not allowed."
with phpbb on Linux
I've recently installed a
PHPBB forum, but until today I
haven't really tested the newly installed forum on how it
behaves.
Today I've played around with it a bit at a first glance the admin
interface or
(Admin Control Panel) looked quite confusing
.
However after I've taken the time to played with it things started
getting clearer and clearer.
First thing I did is to add a new forum. From the link
Administration Control Panel which by the way strangely is
placed at the bottom of the forum entry page after logging in with
the admin user. Therein I have to select the
Forums menu and
use the
Create new forum button located in the down left
corner on the page.
Of course it's necessary to fill in the required forum before you
proceed to the
Create new forum button.
Anyways after I did created the new forum I tried I posted a new
topic just as a test where I tried to attach a microsoft
presentation
.ppt as well as an open office presentation
.odp file.
However the new topics refused to get posted on the forum and a
message appeared saying:
The extension ppt is not allowed.
That message did showed up when I tried uploading the
.ppt
file, whenever I tried with the
.odp file a similar message
poped up in the browser:
The extension odp is not allowed.
It took me a while until I can find the solution and in order to
allow back the .odp and .ppt files I had to use the
PHPBB Admin
Control Panel
Then follow the links:
ACP -> Posting -> Manage extensions groups
When the whole list of
EXTENSION GROUPS,SPECIAL CATEGORIES and
OPTIONS gets listed I had to press the wheel (Edit Menu) in
EXTENSION GROUP for
Documents and from there to tick the
Allowed and
Allowed in private messaging menu.
Last I pressed the Submit button on the bottom of the page and
hooray the upload extensions started working!