think you need to configure your iis to allow downloads of .exe files (not sure how to tho, may need to check on iis forums), or write a download handler to stream the file to the client
Umbraco doesn't restrict which filetypes you can download. It sounds like an IIS6 config setting, but you've already done what I was going to suggest (setting the MIME type in IIS6). Have you restarted IIS6 (or even the web-server) so that the changes take effect?
The MIME type has been in place for ages, I did however restart www service just to be sure, but still no luck.
There is nothing like URLscan installed on the server which would block .exe files.
I ended up zipping my .exe files and serving then that way instead, I soon going to move to 2008 R2 and Umbraco 4.5 anyway, so I didn't want to use too much time troubleshooting.
Download .exe file from media 4.0.3
Hi,
In Umbraco 4.0.3 on IIS 6.0 I'm having trouble downloading .exe files which are uploaded to the media section.
The users get 404 file not found when trying to download .exe files.
I've checked that MIME type .exe is application/octet-stream.
Is there a setting in Umbraco stopping the download of .exe files?
Best regards,
Michael
think you need to configure your iis to allow downloads of .exe files (not sure how to tho, may need to check on iis forums), or write a download handler to stream the file to the client
Cheers,
/Dirk
Hi Michael,
Umbraco doesn't restrict which filetypes you can download. It sounds like an IIS6 config setting, but you've already done what I was going to suggest (setting the MIME type in IIS6). Have you restarted IIS6 (or even the web-server) so that the changes take effect?
Cheers, Lee.
Quick follow-up, found this on Server Fault:
http://serverfault.com/questions/137713/iis6-sending-a-404-for-exe-files
Could there be anything else on your web-server that might be blocking the .exe requests?
Thanks for the very quick response :)
The MIME type has been in place for ages, I did however restart www service just to be sure, but still no luck.
There is nothing like URLscan installed on the server which would block .exe files.
I ended up zipping my .exe files and serving then that way instead, I soon going to move to 2008 R2 and Umbraco 4.5 anyway, so I didn't want to use too much time troubleshooting.
Again thanks for the quick response.
Michael
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