[opencms-dev] Uploading word document template files:problem

[M Butcher]

Edit the MIME types file for OpenCms:

$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/opencms/WEB-INF/classes/mimetypes.properties

Hope that helps,

Matt

Ritwik Datta wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> I am using Open CMS 5.0.0 Kaitain (Final release). So far I found it 
> excellent for Content repository management. We are CMM level 5 company 
> in India and were looking for Open CMS for process improvement of 
> document management and your product really impressed us. 
> We successfully some projects, under that some folders with access 
> rights given to specific user of specifc group. But while uploading .dot 
> files( MS Word Document template) , we are facing problems. The file is 
> getting uploaded but when we open ,it gets opened as text in browser 
> itself with all fomatting junk character on screen. But after uploading 
> doc file, we could see it from MS-Word. We thought, the problem is 
> because of mime type setting in Tomcat. So we set mime types in web.xml 
> file of <TOMCAT_HOME>/conf/. Then we tried with application specific 
> web.xml ( in your case <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/opencms/WEB-INF). Finally 
> we added mime types in /etc/mime.types of Red hat 2.1 Advnace Server, 
> same problem is happening. But uploading .doc file works fine.
> So we need to upload a .dot file and want to view in browser with 
> MS-Word. We have checked Windows Client settings. Mime types for word 
> document template file is already there. In fact, from another apache 
> server, we can view those .dot files. This is very urgent need as far as 
> delivery of product is concerned. Can you send across a work around? 
> Waiting for your kind reply.
> Warm Regards,
> Ritwik Datta,
> Engineer, CMC Limited.
> 
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