Can't see up loaded PDF documents .... TinyMCE

I’m having a problem with PDF documents not being visiable in the browser.

I’ve uploaded them using RESOURCES / MANAGE FILES into the ASSETS / FILES directory ... and i can see them in there. But when i try to link to them from within the editor (tinymce) i can’t see any documents?

Check the resource path settings in the manager.

Also check to make sure .pdf is an allowable file type.

though i had an answer then but nope

• Check the resource path settings in the manager.
• Also check to make sure .pdf is an allowable file type.

Both checked out ok ... did think one of these might be on to something .. but

(nb. xxxx is the domain switched for security)

File Manager Path:
c:/domains/xxxx/wwwroot/

Uploadable File Types: jpg,gif,png,ico,txt,php,html,htm,xml,js,css,cache,zip,gz,rar,z,tgz,tar,htaccess,bmp,mp3,mp4,aac,wav,au,wmv,avi,mpg,mpeg,pdf,psd,doc,xls,txt,flv,swf,mov

Maximum upload size: 3048576


Both options look fine. Also looked at:

Resource path: c:/domains/xxxx/wwwroot/assets/

Resource URL: http://xxxx/assets/

Uploadable Image Types: jpg,jpeg,png,gif,psd,ico,bmp

Uploadable Media Types: mp3,wav,au,wmv,avi,mpg,mpeg

Uploadable Flash Types: swf,fla

Not sure if any of the above setting help debug the problem but i’ve got my fingers crossed. can’t think of anything else that might be related.


Any more ideas for what to look at?

I tried it myself on my local environment: uploaded a .pdf file with the file manager. Opened the browse button to link to it, and there it was, no problem. I can’t imagine what the problem could be here. Does it show any other files? It should be showing the index.html file that’s in the folder by default (to keep it from doing an auto-index list if somebody is snooping).

However, if you’re on windows, it may be some kind of obscure permissions issue. If you can see them with the file manager, you should have enough permissions to see them with the resource browser, but I have no idea how windows servers handles permissions.

just got a little further along ...

it seems this is only related to PDF’s which is a real pain

when i’m in RESOURCES / MANAGE FILES ... i can see all the files listed in front of my ... when i hover over the INSPECT/DOWNLOAD icon for any other file then a pdf i get the correct URL to do the action (eg. view). However on the PDF icons it comes up with

http://www.xxx.com/c:/......

so it seems to be picking up the incorrect path ... which is why i presume it’s not working in TinyMCE ... might have nothing to do with TinyMCE but some other configuration option?

Seems to be getting closer to the real reason ...

SOLVED

it was a PATH problem ...