Help with where to put ebook on server

by Richard Martin

Posted: 14 years ago 8 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I know this is a silly question, but I really stink at the tech aspect of all this.

I want to upload the PDF of my ebook, so that I can point folks the a URL such as XYZblahblah dotcom/secretebook and have the ebook download when they navigate to that URL.

Where do I put the ebook on my server? In the public_html files? In the WWW files? I need to know where to create the directory and all that good info, so this works.

Thanks for the help!!

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j_luke 14 years ago

just name the ebook, then upload into your main directory, then put a link on wherever you want to point to the pdf (link ex. xyz.com/yourpdf.pdf) you could email that link or post it on a webpage
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richdirtygirl

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Martin

Hi Richard,

yes, use public_html

everything there is what directly appears under www.yourdomain.com

so when you call your ebook for download you use:

www.yourdomain.com/ebook.pdf

make sure you put there at least a clean html file, or people will see the naked directory... and that is not cute.

Laura

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Dennis Gaskill 14 years ago

At many host, if not most, what gets uploaded to public_html gets copied to the www folder as well, and vice-versa.
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Kim Standerline 14 years ago

if you want people to be able to download it easily, make sure you save it as a zip file.

Cheers
Kim
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Richard Martin 14 years ago

Thanks to you all for the help! Despite my best efforts to mess this up, I think I got it to work!

Thanks again for the help!!
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Michael Kohler 14 years ago

Good job. I just usually make a folder that says "downloads" and then I code the next folder on the inside of that "product1h34W" or something like that. This way, I keep all of my downloads in one folder and can keep track of what I have uploaded.
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Shoaib 14 years ago

I would suggest if it's something you're selling (and want some simple protection instead of going crazy password protecting etc), to use a weird path to it, such as KjdkeLD/blabla/almostthere/heresthebook2348.pdf.

If you just have it on your main directory or a common directory name such as "downloads", it is more prone to get broken into and people downloading it for free.

If it is a free ebook that you want as many people to have, then by all means make an easy path to it.

Hope that makes sense.
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