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Need help uploading a video to my site - PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!

by Dee Scofield
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How hard can this be??? LOL

Apparently way too hard for me, I give up! Just want to say first that I've been searching high and low on Google & the WF for a simple tutorial that might help me, so it's not like I didn't give it the ol' college try (and then some) before coming here to beg you good people for help. I am really and truly stumped by this one.

Here are the facts:

1. I have Camtasia 4.

2. I made a video that consists of a screen recording with voice narration.

3. I produced it as a swf/flv file.

4. I plan to make several videos and upload them to my website, and then make a simple page with links to each of the videos.

5. I created a folder off of my root, where I uploaded all the files from the first video.

6. This turned out to be a really bad idea, since you can now view the index of ALL the video files if you go to www.mysite.com/myfolder/.

7. I'm clueless as to exactly which files I need to upload to my site, how to prevent the index from being publicly viewable, and how to link to the correct video file.

8. I can view the video by clicking on the html file in the index, so at least I did something right somewhere along the line...


All I've ever done before is produce videos for Youtube, but that isn't an option here. These are training videos for an employee so I don't want them to be public.

I'm not a complete technical bozo, but it's definitely not my forté either (obviously). Can someone please guide me in the right direction...?

Sincerely,
Video-Challenged in Seattle (aka Dee)
#god #love #site #uploading #video
  • Profile picture of the author Bruce Hearder
    Hi Dee..

    Its 4asy to stop people viewing all your files in a directory.

    Simply make a file called index.html and upload to your folder you want to hide.

    Here's some sample content for a index.html

    <html>
    <body>
    <h1>More coming soon</h1>
    </body>
    </html>

    Make the file notepad, and then upload via FTP to your folder.

    That will fix the viewing of all files in the folder problem

    Hope this helps

    Bruce
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    • Profile picture of the author Dee Scofield
      Bruce, I could just kiss ya.

      I followed your instructions and it worked a charm. Which gave me the idea of creating a subfolder for each video below the first subfolder (mysite.com/myfolder/myvideo1/, etc.). Then from the index.html page I can link to the html file in each myvideo subfolder, and that will work. Not the most elegant solution in the world, but for this purpse it'll get the job done fine.

      I can't thank you enough for taking the time to help me out (literally - since only 1 thanks is allowed per post, lol). But seriously - I really appreciate it!
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      • Profile picture of the author Bruce Hearder
        No probs.. Glad it worked for you..

        Bruce
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