Thread:Project:Support desk/Opening .msg file in MediaWiki works in Firefox, but not Internet Explorer 11.

Hello ladies & gentlemen,

I'm currently taking some time to post this question while I for the Tylenol to kick in.

I'm running MediaWiki 1.21.2 on Ubuntu Server 12.04.3 LTS. I'm accessing it via SSH, and I'm quite unfamiliar with this system - I'm a Windows guy. But, I've managed to get this far so I can't let this stop me. I've made some adjustments to LocalSettings.php to allow various file types to be uploaded such as: .docx, .msg, .oft, .xlsx, .iso and .vsdx. There may be more in the future. The one we'll focus on today is .msg (though .oft suffers from the exact same symptom). When I throw in the [[media:Test.msg|click me]] link, it works GREAT in Firefox. The browser prompts me, and I can choose either open or save the file. When I click the exact same link in Internet Explorer, the browser redirects me to a new page that looks something like this:

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And that goes on for about five hundred lines. So, yeah it basically looks like something isn't working right. I've ran "locate mime.types" and adjusted every single mime.types file with the following line: "application/vnd.ms-outlook msg" to no avail. I've restarted the Apache2 service after doing this. I've tried creating a .htaccess folder under my MediaWiki root folder, but nothing I put in this file seems to do anything (I've even tested it by forcing the browser to SAVE rather than OPEN a .pdf, which works natively). Couldn't even get that to work. It's like everything I've been modifying isn't doing anything. Am I modifying the wrong files? I desperately need to resolve this problem. Thanks!