Thread:Project:Support desk/mediawiki 1.20.2 not displaying Images tagged as File:/reply (3)

Its turn out that in 1.16 you have specify in LocalSettings.php the parameter $wgUrlProtocols[] = "file:" in order for the file tag to work. In 1.20 the presence of that in the LocalSettings.php breaks the file tag. On removing it, everything sprang back in to life!