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I have my business directory working and I have to say I'm very happy about it, however I have a final issue that's been bugging me. At first I thought I could just get videos from youtube or Amazon, I was wondering if I couldn't just upload my own video so I checked in the forum, and apparently yes... after that I went to check on my multiple category form html file and noticed that the option was on the template.

However no matter how hard I try it's not showing up on my video options on the website itself.. I don't know if I'm being clear here or not, point is, I just want to be able to upload my videos, I might use youtube enventually, but for know I'd rather upload them to my server....

Thanks for your valuable help!!

Fadou

Hi Fadou,

Due to the fact that DotNetNuke users have a hard time uploading large files, the local video option is turned off by default in the parameter section of the form.

If you refer to our training:

Configure Main Form

In number 19, on the training page above, you will see that you can change gAllowLocalDiskVideo to yes.

For data security, once you change a parameter on the form, you will need to update any current listings for the change to take effect.

You have a couple options:

1. You can check with your web hosting provider and see if they can adjust your DNN web.config file to allow for larger upload files and increase the upload request timeout.

2. You can add a XMod dnnfilelist control to the form in place of the video FileUpload control.

The Xmod dnnfilelist control would consist of a dropdown form control that would allow the user to select from a predetermined list of files in your portal >> root directory.

Example:

[dnnfilelist ref="FileUploadVideo1" extensions="flv,wmv" required="true"]

  [label]Choose A File: [/label]

[/dnnfilelist]

Note: Arrows are replaced with brackets only to show code on this forum post.

Using this Xmod control would allow you to FTP video files to your root folder and the user could select from a pre-existing list of video files.

If you used this you would also need to adjust the detail template code to point to the file loaction (It is currently built to point to a video file in the proper images folder for that listing.

I do not plan on implementing this solution since it would require complete control by the administrator to upload the video files via FTP  and exposes the entire video file selection list to all users that can add listings.

References:

XMod Online Help

XMod dnnfilelist Help

3. Use Amazon S3 hosting service for your FTP client.

Reference:

Screencast: How to Set Up Amazon S3 and FireFox S3 Organizer

Hi Fadou,

You cannot upload these file types due to the fact that DotNetNuke is not recognizing flv and wmv files as allowed file extensions.

Login to your site as portal host account.

Go to Host  tab >> Host settings >> Advanced Settings >> Other Settings >> Allowable File Extensions

Add flv,wmv to the existing list of allowed file extensions.