Kunena 6.3.8 Released

The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.3.8 [K 6.3.8] in stable which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 4.4.x/5.0.x/5.1.x/5.2.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.2 / K 6.3 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.3
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Question Attachments: PDFs vs. other file types

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6 years 1 month ago #1 by wirecreative
Attachments: PDFs vs. other file types was created by wirecreative
We're in the early stages of setting up a forum, which isn't live yet. We're having trouble with attachments, and I think some of it has to do with the "Protect Attachments" settings.

We complicate this by also having uploads with unusual extensions (firmware updates and other files related to our software products). We have MIME types setup for these extensions in our htaccess file so that they will download rather than open as text, and their extensions have been added as the allowed uploads in the Kunena settings.

If "Protect Attachments" is set to "Yes" all of our PDFs attachment links appear like this:
https://[domain]/media/kunena/attachments/1686/[filename].pdf
But our other file types show up like this:
https://[domain]/forum/attachment/14

With this setting, all of our PDFs return 404 errors, but all of our other file types download correctly.

If "Protect Attachments" is set to "No" all of our PDFs attachment links appear like this:
https://[domain]/media/kunena/attachments/1686/952fb103ed2435dec826a7690c27f8a5
And our other file types also show up like this:
https://[domain]/media/kunena/attachments/67/69f9c5b2d4fa40b370d6112916609126

But, with this setting, all of our PDFs open correctly in the browser's PDF reader, but all of our other file types also try to open up in the browser as text, which is a big problem -- presumably because the extensions are no longer part of the URL?

Can anyone help us fix this?
I've updated to 5.1.7 earlier today and have tried new uploads in this new version, issues remain.
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6 years 1 month ago - 6 years 1 month ago #2 by rich
Replied by rich on topic Attachments: PDFs vs. other file types

If "Protect Attachments" is set to "No" all of our PDFs attachment links appear like this:
https://[domain]/media/kunena/attachments/1686/952fb103ed2435dec826a7690c27f8a5

You get the many characters at the end of the address, when the attachment/image has been uploaded with the setting Protect Attachments = Yes. If you changing afterwards this option, it has no effect on existing filenames.

But, with this setting, all of our PDFs open correctly in the browser's PDF reader, but all of our other file types also try to open up in the browser as text, which is a big problem -- presumably because the extensions are no longer part of the URL?

Have you disabled the lightbox? Some browsers (such as my Linux Firefox) can't directly to open the files with this url.

And the problem with the pdf I've confirmed ( see here ).

Important! Always create a backup before you make any changes to your website!
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6 years 2 weeks ago #3 by realstrannik
Replied by realstrannik on topic Attachments: PDFs vs. other file types
When will the file problem be solved?

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6 years 2 weeks ago #4 by 810
Replied by 810 on topic Attachments: PDFs vs. other file types
it should be fixed already, do you use the core kunena template, else your kunena template needs some updates.

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6 years 1 week ago #5 by realstrannik
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810 wrote: it should be fixed already, do you use the core kunena template, else your kunena template needs some updates.


The problem exists in any template.


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6 years 1 week ago #6 by rich
Replied by rich on topic Attachments: PDFs vs. other file types

The problem exists in any template.

Confirmed. The problem with PDFs and protect attachments still exists. It's already again in the bug list.

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5 years 11 months ago #7 by realstrannik
Replied by realstrannik on topic Attachments: PDFs vs. other file types
Hello! In the version of kunena 5.1.9, the problem with the files remained. Please correct this.

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5 years 10 months ago #8 by realstrannik
Replied by realstrannik on topic Attachments: PDFs vs. other file types
Hello! In the version of kunena 5.1.10, the problem with the files remained. Please correct this.

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