By Anonymous (not verified) on

I have been trying to place a Flash movie (analog clock) in a block for display. The block is recognised but the flash movie does not appear to load. I think it may be in the pathing but have not been able to get it to display. Any comments most appreciated.

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theview commented

Can anyone answer his question? I'm curious as well. Thanks!

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(not verified) commented

It was a pathing error. In the end I inserted a flash object into an HTML page (using dreamweaver) and then cut the code and pasted it into the block After some tweaking with the path I arrived at the correct path and it now runs fine. Hope to have a site up live in the near future but have been learning about DRUPAl on my own PC under IIS

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bertboerland commented

doesnt seem like a drupal problem but a apache (or other webserver) problem.

you have to add the mimetype to your webserver to let it know what type it is sending out towards the browser

basically add a line like
application/x-shockwave-flash swf
to your apache configuration (note: i know nothing about IIS!)
and restart apache. try to google for apache mime and flash. you will find pages like this one.

also try to directly download the flash file. if you have a gecko based browser, the lievheaders might come handy

good luck and post more questions or answers in this thread.

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