uploaded is not allowed

Hi Hamid,

Since movable type v4.361, v5.051 and v5.11 Six Apart introduced a mechanism which to prevent the upload of a specific set of file names.

The extensions that are not allowed are listed inside this file:
/lib/MT/Core.pm

From within your movable type installation folder.

To give you a sample, movable type v5.14 black lists the following extensions:

ascx,asis,asp,aspx,bat,cfc,cfm,cgi,cmd,com,cpl,dll,exe,htaccess,htm,html,inc,jhtml,js,jsb,jsp,mht,mhtml,msi,php\d?,phps,phtm,phtml,pif,pl,pwml,py,reg,scr,sh,shtm,shtml,vbs,vxd,pm,so,rb,htc

To still allow the upload of files ending in .exe you would have to add to your movable type installation 'mt-config.cgi' file the following directive:

DeniedAssetFileExtensions ascx,asis,asp,aspx,bat,cfc,cfm,cgi,cmd,com,cpl,dll,htaccess,htm,html,inc,jhtml,js,jsb,jsp,mht,mhtml,msi,php\d?,phps,phtm,phtml,pif,pl,pwml,py,reg,scr,sh,shtm,shtml,vbs,vxd,pm,so,rb,htc

Which is basically the complete list of extensions from "Core.pm", excepting the .exe one.

While you could set this directive to overwrite the default list of banned extensions, what I would do is to not touch that, but to archive .exe files and upload their .zip corresponding files.

You could read more about the "DeniedAssetFileExtensions" configuration directive here:

http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/config-directives/deniedassetfileextensions.html

Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru

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As an alternative to "DeniedAssetFileExtensions" you may like to consult this other directive:

http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/config-directives/assetfileextensions.html

This other directive is for white listed files types.

thanks mihai

You're welcome, Hamid!