How can I make .tar.gz files available for download on my blog?

  • When you upload a .tar.gz file it gets renamed such that “example.tar.gz” becomes “exampletar.gz”. Is there a fix for this, or a better way to manage downloads on my blog?

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  • Upload it via FTP and provide your users a link to that file name.

    See:
    Uploading_WordPress_to_a_remote_host

    Thread Starter viciouslime

    (@viciouslime)

    Ok, thanks, that’s what I was going to do, but I thought there might be a more integrated method.

    I’d like to figure this out too. I’m not going to give my friends all FTP access and require them to understand how to use it just so they can upload files…

    I was willing to go the .tgz route instead, but it seems even if I add .tgz as an allowed filetype, it is blocked.

    I added
    'tgz' => 'application/x-compressed-tar',

    to wp-includes/functions.php, function wp_check_filetype()

    then I could at least upload tgz files

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