How do i upload files for my website for download.

squeezecpa · 09-07-2008, 12:45 PM

Hi, i am not too clued when it comes to web design. I have just downloaded filezilla and uploaded an ebook to a folder on my server, but not sure how i can provide a download link for my customers to download that ebook.

I know it sounds silly and i think i am nearly there. Hope someone can enlighten me on this.
Thanks in advance.

dar · 09-07-2008, 03:42 PM

If you uploaded the ebook to your "www" folder, you can get people to download it by making a link that points to:

http://www.example.com/ebook.pdf

Obviously replace example.com with your website name and ebook.pdf with the file name of your actual ebook.

If you uploaded it to a subdirectory, all you have to do is change the path.
For example, if you uploaded to "www/downloads/ebook.pdf", you would link to "http://example.com/downloads/ebook.pdf"

To make a link, see here:
HTML Links

ThomM · 09-07-2008, 05:50 PM

If you link to the PDF then when anyone clicks on it, it will open the PDF and they won't actually download it unless they save it when it is open.
Robert Plank put this code in the main forum last year that will make the PDF downloadable.

<?php

// Change this to the filename of your PDF file
$filename = "filename.pdf";

if (!file_exists($filename)) {
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
echo "<h1>404 Not Found</h1>";
die();
}

header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . basename($filename) . '"');
echo file_get_contents($filename);
die();

?>

Change the filename that's underlined above to the name of your PDF.
Copy the code to to a blank file in wordpad or what ever text editor you use and name it what ever you want with a .php extension, like ebook.php
Upload that and the PDF to your site and on the web page link to that file like this http://sitename.com/ebook.php
Then when they click on the link it will download to their computer instead of opening in their browser.

MikeHayes · 09-08-2008, 01:54 AM

Hi,

Just a thought.

If someone stumbles across your download folder they could get access without you knowing so include an index.html in the folder as follows.
**********************************
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<CENTER>
<TABLE BGCOLOR="white" WIDTH="650" BORDER="5" BORDERCOLORDARK="gray" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="white" CELLPADDING="5">
<CENTER>
<tr>
<th>You are not allowed to access this area. Please <a href="http://www.your-domain.com">click here</a> to go to our main page.
</th>
</tr>
</center>
</table>
</body>
*************************************************

Good luck

Quicksilver
The HTML Book, with free HTML code.

ripsnorta2 · 09-08-2008, 10:31 AM

Quicksilver has a good point, but instead of giving them a nasty error message, it might be better to just redirect them to the main page. Or better yet, redirect them to a sales page!

Just do this with an index.php file and put the redirection code in that.

Code:

<? header("Location: http://www.mysite.com/buythisproductnow"); ?>

09-07-2008, 12:45 PM	#1
squeezecpa Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: United Kingdom Birmingham Posts: 92 Thanks: 23 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	How do i upload files for my website for download. Hi, i am not too clued when it comes to web design. I have just downloaded filezilla and uploaded an ebook to a folder on my server, but not sure how i can provide a download link for my customers to download that ebook. I know it sounds silly and i think i am nearly there. Hope someone can enlighten me on this. Thanks in advance.

09-07-2008, 03:42 PM	#2
dar Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 31 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: How do i upload files for my website for download. If you uploaded the ebook to your "www" folder, you can get people to download it by making a link that points to: http://www.example.com/ebook.pdf Obviously replace example.com with your website name and ebook.pdf with the file name of your actual ebook. If you uploaded it to a subdirectory, all you have to do is change the path. For example, if you uploaded to "www/downloads/ebook.pdf", you would link to "http://example.com/downloads/ebook.pdf" To make a link, see here: HTML Links

09-07-2008, 05:50 PM	#3
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09-08-2008, 01:54 AM	#4
MikeHayes HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Amsterdam , Netherlands. Posts: 156 Thanks: 3 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Contact Info	Re: How do i upload files for my website for download. Hi, Just a thought. If someone stumbles across your download folder they could get access without you knowing so include an index.html in the folder as follows. ******************************** <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> </HEAD> <BODY> <CENTER> <TABLE BGCOLOR="white" WIDTH="650" BORDER="5" BORDERCOLORDARK="gray" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="white" CELLPADDING="5"> <CENTER> <tr> <th>You are not allowed to access this area. Please <a href="http://www.your-domain.com">click here</a> to go to our main page. </th> </tr> </center> </table> </body> *********************************************** Good luck Quicksilver The HTML Book, with free HTML code.

09-08-2008, 10:31 AM	#5
ripsnorta2 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 327 Thanks: 54 Thanked 23 Times in 18 Posts Contact Info	Re: How do i upload files for my website for download. Quicksilver has a good point, but instead of giving them a nasty error message, it might be better to just redirect them to the main page. Or better yet, redirect them to a sales page! Just do this with an index.php file and put the redirection code in that. Code: <? header("Location: http://www.mysite.com/buythisproductnow"); ?>
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