Troubles to download msword file as director, author, rev

[matnet]

Hi. I have a similar problem as the one pointed at by santiagom concerning OJS with some Ms word files (viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4027). I haven't found a thread for OCS though.

The problem is the following: The file of a submission is online fine. I can say this because if i go to ftp://ftp.mysite.eu:21//ocs/files/confe ... ion/review and i download the file, it opens correctly

however if i try to open this and other files as either reviewer, director or author, the file pops up a ms word box asking which code i want to use to open the file and whichever code i choose the file does not open correctly.

Thanks fr your help and patience

[matnet]

I realized i should be more specific about my installation and problem
I am running ocs 2.1.2. The website is the following: http://www.eale2010.eu.
I encounter the problem with all doc, docx and rtf files on both macs and PCs when i try to open them through either reviewer, author or director logins. When i try to open these files the following box pops up and whichever choice i make the files will not open properly. I repeat, the files online are just fine as if i navigate via ftp to the file, i can see and download them correctly.

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Thanks again

[jmacgreg]

Hi Matnet,

Can you follow Alec's suggestions in the thread you point to -- open up the corrupted files in either Notepad or TextEdit, and see if there are any PHP errors buried in there?

Cheers,
James

[matnet]

I have tried to post an empty doc as a review posted by the director and then i downloaded it.
It does not open either and as far as i can tell there seems to be no php code there. See the attachment

thanks

Matteo

[mcrider]

Hi matnet,

Could you also follow Alec's instructions regarding showing us a row from the article_files table referring to an affected file? The system may think these files are a different format than they actually are.

Cheers,
Matt

[matnet]

Hi Matt. sorry for not anwering earlier. I have had a look at the paper_files table (you suggested articole_files but i guess that applies to OJS). In fact i see that the doc files are either identified as octet-stream, msword or vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document. See image in the zip attached.

However in neither case they download. Actually i cannot find any single doc file that downloads correctly. I attah the Sql extraction of the three files enlightened in the image for the papers_table in the zip attached

Hope we can fix this. Thanks

Archive.zip

(40.73 KiB) Downloaded 47 times

Matteo

[mcrider]

Hi Matteo,

Try changing the file_type for those msword files to 'application/msword', and let us know if they appear correctly.

Cheers,
Matt

[matnet]

It is already either
application/msword or
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document or
application/octet-stream

Neither works.

The files with the file_type application/pdf instead download and correctly

[mcrider]

Hi Matteo,

And all of these documents load correctly when you access them via FTP? Can you give us some more information about your server, e.g. OS, PHP/Apache server versions, and anything else that may be relevant? Are you just using Spanish in your OCS install?

Cheers,
Matt

[matnet]

Yrs indeed. I have downloaded them correctly via FTP and I am sending the DOC files out to reviewers by email at the moment.

In my OCS install I am using only english although you can probably see some italian here and there in my browser and in my server pages.

My server is hosted on Aruba.it. I have other two ocs installations owith the same provider and they work fine (they are however OCS 2.1.1 and 2.1.2)

Other data are as following:

OS platform Linux
PHP version 5.2.13
Apache version Not available
Database driver mysql
Database server version 5.0.82sp1-log

thanks

[asmecher]

Hi matnet,

I suspect you've inadvertently inserted a tab into the top or bottom of one of the system's PHP files. The .doc file you posted contains a tab at the beginning but is otherwise OK. The easiest place for one of these to sneak in is before the "<?php" at the beginning of a script, or after the "?>" at the end.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[matnet]

I think this is a little bit beyond my capabilities. I have changed only CSS files and the files that produce the side menu.

how can it be the case that only DOC files are affected and not PDF ones?

[asmecher]

Hi matnet,

PDF files are handled slightly differently than .DOC files, which can mean that different class files are loaded in the two situations. Have you checked your web server log for error messages? Look for something like:

Warning: Cannot modify header information...

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[asmecher]

Hi huafeihua116,

I'm afraid I'm not following -- could you describe in more detail?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team