SWF works locally but not loaded from server

Question

Here is the deal. I have SWF build with Unity and embedded into HTML page with swfobject. It works perfectly well when I load page locally (zip), but it always says "Movie not loaded" when I try to load page. from server

I have already inspect similar embedded movies (this one, and this one) and found no differences in HTML code neither in scripts. So I suspect the source of problem is my server, most likely its rewrite rules. Yesterday I tried to understand the meaning of this file using multiple manuals, forum threads et cetera:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php52 .php .php5 .php4 .php3

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Once upon a time, before Google Translate even exists, I have spent a whole day to succesfully translate an article from simplified Chinese to Russian (with zero experience in Chinese and overall C- for school course of Russian). So it was surprisingly frustrating to me when I have spent same period of time to a few strings of declarative code and still have no idea even if am I right and it will solve my problem.

So I will gratefully appreciate a helpful answer or two.

Answer 1

I did some further tests, sadly there are no errors on the console. But it pretty much looks like there's something wrong with your .swf file on the server, because when I download the file from your server it is not working locally either. (Did you try that before?)

How did you upload the file? There are many sources on the web (e.g. http://www.techtutorials.net/articles/ftp_binary_or_ascii__a.html) that point out that you must use binary mode for files like .swf.

=> Upload the file again using binary mode

Some other thoughts:

• Check the file permission of the .swf file, should have at least read rights (e.g. 644)

• Check for the mime type in Apache: AddType application/x-shockwave-flash swf Source: http://www.htaccess-guide.com/adding-mime-types/

Let me know if all of this doesn't solve your problem.