Upload of file rejected due to false file extension – although all types allowed

  • In the wordpress-upload dashboard the setting on “allowed file extionsions” is “*.*”
    However, the upload failes when I try to upload a *.qdf-file.
    The message shown is: “Datei nnnn.qdf nicht hochgeladen” (file nnnn.qdf not uploaded), and the messages shown below are
    Hochladen fehlgeschlagen! (Upload failed)
    Dateiformat nicht erlaubt (File format not allowed).
    How come?
    Thanks for your help which is greatly appreciated!

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  • Plugin Author nickboss

    (@nickboss)

    Hi, pattern *.* will allow most common file types, but not all, for security reasons.

    File type *.qdf is not allowed by default. To include it, set Allowed File Extensions like this: *.*, *.qdf

    Regards

    Nickolas

    Thread Starter JKDuck

    (@jkduck)

    Ok, understood. But the same applies when I try to upload a zip-file. That is not an unusal format for transferring huge files. Can you let us know wichi file-types are allowed when we use only the *.*?
    Thanks!

    Plugin Author nickboss

    (@nickboss)

    Hi, this is the list of extensions covered by *.*:

    1st, 264, 3g2, 3ga, 3gp, aac, abw, ai, aiff, amr, ape, arf, asf, asx, avi, aww, bik, bmp, cda, cdr, csv, dash, dat, dds, dib, djvu, dng, doc, docx, drw, dt2, dvf, dvr, emf, emz, eng, epub, file, flac, gif, gp4, gp5, gpx, h264, ind, indd, jpeg, jpg, key, log, logic, lrc, m2t, m2ts, m4a, m4b, m4p, m4v, midi, mkv, mov, mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpg, mpp, mpt, mts, nfo, odf, odg, ods, odt, ogg, ogv, ott, oxps, pages, pcm, pdf, pic, plist, pmd, png, pot, potx, pps, ppsx, ppt, pptx, prn, ps, psd, psdx, pts, pub, pwi, raw, rec, rep, rmvb, rtf, sdd, sdw, snd, sng, snp, sub, sxw, tbl, tga, tif, tiff, tod, tp, ts, txt, uax, vob, vsd, wav, wbmp, wdp, wlmp, wma, wmv, wpd, wpl, wps, wri, xls, xlsx, xps, zab

    You can also see article https://www.iptanus.com/allowed-file-types-wordpress-file-upload-plugin/. It contains an extension checker.

    Regards

    Nickolas

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