Imported content from Moodle stored as text/plain instead of text/html

[Darren James Harkness]

When configuring a Mahoodle install, exported content from forum, blog, and wiki modules appears to be stored in Mahara's database (in artefact_file_files) with the filetype text/plain, rather than text/html. This prevents users from embedding the imported content as an HTML artefact within a page in Mahara (it instead has to be added as a downloadable file).

This appears to be finfo() working as expected, reading the contents of the file and not seeing opening HTML tags; however, downloading imported content from the incoming folder in Mahara and re-uploading it appears to properly set the mimetype correctly to text/html with no change to the file's contents.

Version information:
Moodle 2.2.1
Mahara 1.5.1

[Hugh Davenport (hugh-davenport)]

Hi Darren,

I believe this was fixed in Bug #774684, though that was specific to Ubuntu I believe. Can you please give some more information about your setup such as what OS, Web server, Database, etc.

Cheers,

Hugh

[Darren James Harkness (darren-athabascau)]

Hi Hugh,

This is on RHEL6 running Apache 2.2.15, PHP 5.3.3 and MySQL 5.1.61.

[Darren James Harkness (darren-athabascau)]

I built a specific test case for the behaviour of both finfo() and mime_content_type() on RHEL6 and OS X 10.8, and it looks like this is something specific to RHEL6.

On OS/X 10.8, a downloaded post.html file reports the following mime type:
"text/html; charset=us-ascii"

On RHEL6, it reports this:
"text/plain; charset=us-ascii"

Here's a dir listing of /usr/share/misc in case it helps you track down the issue:

[darren@ ~]$ cd /usr/share/misc
[darren@ misc]$ ls -l
total 2348
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 596741 Sep 5 2011 magic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1794600 Sep 5 2011 magic.mgc

[William Mair (wmair)]

I have this problem too using Ubuntu Linux 10.10, on a PostgreSQL DB (v 8.4.11).

I've looked in the database and the filetype is showing as text/plain.

Any suggestions or anything else I can find out to help?

Thanks

[William Mair (wmair)]

Using Moodle 2.3.1 and Mahara 1.5.2, if that helps

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

I think this is fixed with bug #1318995

[Darren James Harkness (darren-athabascau)]

Hi Kristina - I happen to be just doing a test deploy of 1.9.2 and will test to confirm.

[Darren James Harkness (darren-athabascau)]

Can confirm this is fixed on RHEL.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Hello Darren,

Thanks for confirming that the other fix also fixed your issue.

Cheers
Kristina