I’m planning to use WP4 to create an intranet for one of my clients.

But i’m quite stuck actually. My client has a network infrastructure based on Windows (ad, file server, etc) and this network is not connected to the internet (so quite ‘safe’… well)

Users will have to link files that are stored on a network share using a P:// or \\SERV_NAME\SHAREDIR\SUBDIR\DOC.PDF but it doesn’t work
I’ve tried with file:/// and of course, it is not allowed…

I’ve read that i could hack wp to allow the ‘file:///’ protocol but i don’t know how.
If you have any best idea or recommendation (except to upload files on the wp server obviously or open a ftp service on the file serv’ )

Thanks in advance, kind regards,

Kris

So i have been searching and searching for instructions on how to link to a file located on a network share. Ideally i would like to do two things, 1: open a network share (like a explorer window) to a file share and 2: open a excel sheet, kinda like a shortcut.

What I’m trying to do is create a personal intranet site creating a page that lists all the file shares and files i commonly use.

My setup:
My wordpress site is hosted on Godaddy ver. 3.7.1
Network shares are all hosted on a small network NAS drive on my private home network – it hosts all the files i use

the idea is for my home computers to connect to links like this (i know this will only work on my homes pc’s and no where else)

\\192.168.1.23\mydocs – this should open the file share so i can browse all files

\\192.168.1.23\mydocs\schoolwork.xlsx – this should open the file in excel which is running local to the pc

any direction or help will be greatly appreciated – thank you in advance

Every time I try to create the link, it goes back to a HTML site instead of the path.

Any idea on how to do this?

Thanks,
Rob

This one is proving to be a tough egg to crack, and I can’t post to the advanced forum so maybe someone here can help. I’m hosting wordpress between two computers, one running linux that takes care of the front end, database, scripting, apache, etc and another running windows that actually stores all my files and shares them with the linux machine VIA a windows share and smbfs. The reason for this admittedly over-complicated setup is I need quite a bit of space (7TB) and the RAID array to do this only works on the machine running windows, and I can’t uninstall windows or move the RAID array. So I have mounted the RAID array from a windows machine using smbfs on to the linux machine and then symlinked the mountpoint of the share to /var/www where apache looks.

( side note to justify this insanity – I used to host directly from the windows machine but server administration was a nightmare, and I like working in linux way better, so this setup made the most sense. )

I have everything working the way I want except for this issue with the permalinks. Basically, my website works fine (stonelinks.org), however after enabling pretty permalinks (like it currently is), when you click on any link to a virtual directory it says that I am forbidden. The actual error that appears in the log is this:

[Wed Dec 08 15:17:45 2010] [error] [client 66.249.65.250] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www

I have mod_rewrite enabled, but I can’t even tell if my .htaccess files are working. My configuration files look like this:

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot /var/www

        <Directory /var/www>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

in case this is a permissions thing here is /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=f8fa3eb0-5f5e-4652-b5c4-4dcf7489f2cf /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=74efcd33-a45d-4a0f-b8d7-16c88755a0aa none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
//stonelinks.ath.cx/F  /media/stonelinks  smbfs  dir_mode=0775,gid=1002,credentials=/etc/auto.cifs.stonelinks,  0  0

where stonelinks.ath.cx is the windows server with the share called f
/etc/auto.cifs.stonelinks is my login info for the windows computer
group 1002 is a group I made called developers:

root@dildozer:~# grep developers /etc/group
developers:x:1002:luke,www-data,root
root@dildozer:~# members --all developers
luke www-data root

I suspect this is a permissions thing, but for the life of me I cannot figure it out. I’ve even tried changing everything to 777 permissions (which I know is dangerous, but I want to see it work before I batten down the hatches), both from the mountpoint of the share and from /var/www. Interestingly I can’t change the permissions for /var/www if the remote filesystem is mounted.

So I’m throughly stumped. If there is any more info I can provide please let me know and thank you for all your help! You people are saints for what you do here.

Is this feature supported? The search terms I have been using (URI, file href, network share link, file link, etc.) have been unsuccessful in turning up an answer to my question (or even a reference that indicates that this is not possible.)

As an alternative to this (if this feature does not work) I can create pages with URLs to local network shares and files just fine and create a link to those pages via the blogroll. It just increases the number of clicks a user needs to perform in order to acquire the desired information. Since the blog (and other web CMS systems I’ve implemented) are new technology, simplifying use will increase the rate of adoption which is highly desirable.

We’re using the blog (and a wiki) to generate self-help IT documentation and knowledgebase and to notify people of upcoming IT related events (network outages/etc). This will reduce user confusion during network outages because we’ll have a portal that will explain what/when/why of any network outage during and after it occurs. Plus any change or simple procedure can also be documented, reducing the time our IT staff spends on mundane and routine desktop administration. Being a small company, empowering each user to help themselves it critical to reducing our demands on the existing IT staff.