Thread:Project:Support desk/auto-update a mediawiki upload?/reply (2)

Do you mean you're uploading zip files in MediaWiki using Special:Upload and you want to update it with an automated process? Well, if you don't need to have a version history of the file, I'd simply upload that zip file somewhere else in the server (just outside of MediaWiki files) and provide a direct link to it from MediaWiki.

MediaWiki isn't aware of any changes of the file on the filesystem once it has been uploaded, so it shouldn't break the link at all. Maybe the problem is that it has a different owner/permissions when you replace it on the server and it doesn't have permissions to access it.