Help with loading PDFs to website

by athena08

Posted: 16 years ago 18 replies

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I have uploaded some PDFs to my website that I want my subscribers to be able to download. They are there on the site but the page looks like an error page like when you get the page showing;

Parent Directory
Cgi Bin
etc

How can I upload PDFs to a page on my website and have them it look like a proper page and have the PDFs clickable?

Thanks so much for any advice.
Chris

#downloadable pdfs #loading #pdfs #uploading pdfs #website

e-mail2u

16 years ago

chris,

Just have a page with links on like www.yoursite/*******.pdf this will open the acrobat file in their current browser.

See my sign for an example.

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HarveyJ

Banned 16 years ago

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Asher

16 years ago

Hi,

I replied to a similar post by you at
http://www.warriorforum.com/website-...k-my-site.html

But instead of using the <IMG SRC="picture.jpg"> code, you simply key
in a text like so:

<A HREF="(your PDF full location)">Click here to get your copy!</a>

And that'll work fine and dandy.

Asher

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athena08

16 years ago

Hi Guys,

Thank you so much for the quick and helpful responses. I will heed your advice and work on this today.

Will post again if I'm still having trouble.

Regards,
Chris

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athena08

16 years ago

Okay, so I checked all the PDF filenames and there are no spaces, were some hyphens so I removed them just to be safe.

Maybe if I explain in a little more detail what I'm doing then you guys may be able to give me the info that I need because I am still having the same problem.

I have uploaded a product which contains 24 PDF reports to be given to people who optin at my squeeze page so I want them to go to my site where the PDFs are and be able to see them all and download them without the page looking like an error page which it does right now. See below;

Index of /TracTacPDFs
Name Last modified Size Description
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Parent Directory 20-Aug-2008 08:38 -
AffiliateProgramTact..> 20-Aug-2008 08:37 56k
ArticleMarketingTact..> 20-Aug-2008 08:37 59k
BlogforTrafficTactic..> 20-Aug-2008 08:37 56k
ControversialPetitio..> 20-Aug-2008 08:37 57k

Thanks for your help,
Chris

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Asher

16 years ago

Hi Chris,

It seems to me that what you're lacking is a HTML page. Where people can actually view the links properly. You need a HTML document in order for all the links to work properly.

You know what? Instead of hard coding everything yourself if you've not learnt HTML (which you should, I highly recommend it), get some tools to help you.

You'll need What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG, pronounced wee-zee-wig) tools to help you generate HTML pages.

Either get a free one at NVU , or purchase DreamWeaver or some other good HTML editors available.

If this isn't the problem, please post back here again.

Asher

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athena08

16 years ago

Hi Asher,

I actually have NVU but am not that familiar with it ( only used it once so far) so will try to get it done using this and will post if I have other issues after trying.

Thanks so much for your help.
Chris

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Billy Deakin

16 years ago

Chris

If you have Nvu just create a brand new page and save it as index.html in the same folder as your PDF files.

Now on the page list each file one at a time in NORMAL view, one per line. Highlight each in turn and click on the LINK icon on the toolbar (looks like a chain) now in the LINK LOCATION box type the name of the pdf file (i.e. example.pdf) and click OK.

Save the file, upload to your server (same dorectory as the PDFs) and you're good to go.

Your server will almost certainly be set to server index.html as the default page when a visitor goes to that folder.

You can of course edit the page as much as you like to make it look nice etc. and I suggest you at least take a quick peek at the SOURCE tab just to get a rough idea of what is happening. There are loads of free resources online to learn HTML and it's well worth a little time inested to learn the basics.

Essentially Nvu will simply change this:

Download example

Into this:

<a href="example.pdf">Download example</a>

Which makes it into a clickable link.

Hope that helps

Bill

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Billy Deakin

16 years ago

BTW Chris - you can use that same code to turn your signature URLs into clickable links! Just put the anchor text (what text you want your user to click on) in place of Download example, and put the full URL in place of example.pdf

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athena08 16 years ago

Thanks once again for great tips.

I have done what you suggested Billy, except for calling the page index.html since my main website page is called index.html. I called it instead productname.html and put this page in the same folder with the pdfs as you said to do. However, now I am getting a 500 Internal Server Error and cannot figure out why.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Chris
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athena08

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Billy Deakin

Hi Billy,

Tried to use the html code to modify my signature but doesn't seem as though itworked as it should. What do I do to fix it?

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Asher

16 years ago

Hi Chris, didn't realise you asked this question on this thread. Anyway, I answered you on your other thread. I'll just copy and paste it here...

You're welcome, glad that I can be of help.
Now, you tried this for your signature but it doesn't work. Here's how to fix it.

Instead of <A HREF="(url)"> Your Text </a>

Use [URL="(url)"] Your Text [ /url]

Asher

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Billy Deakin 16 years ago

Sorry - forgot this forum uses forum code, not HTML for links so yes, use the [url] tag as Neonerai stated.

You can have more than one index.html on a site - in fact you want one per directory since that is the page which will be displayed if your browser points to the directory for example:

yourdomain.com/example

will actually display:

yourdomain.com/example/index.html

IF that file exists. If you name it something else like example.html then:

yourdomain.com/example

won't work but:

yourdomain.com/example/example.html would be fine!

Hope that makes sense.

Error 500 is a default error code and doesn't really tell you much but I suspect that you are linking to the folder, not the file.

If that's not it can you tell us the URL of the file, as we might be able to solve the issue with a bit more detail.

Bill
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- athena08 16 years ago
  
  I can't thank you guys enough for all of your help. Warriors are the best.
  
  The last post from Bill has my head spinning sorry to say. Newbie to this stuff for sure.
  
  This is what is happening. The files are there on the server ( I see them when I go into my FTP software) at the following address;
  
  http://www.fastinternetmarketingtips...fictacticspdfs in my FTP software, however when I try to go to that web address I get the 500 internal server error so I am thinking that somehow I am not pointing to them properly.
  
  Hope this is enough detail to help you guys help me.
  
  Thanks a million,
  Chris
  
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  Asher 16 years ago
  
  Hi Chris,
  
  Try this: Fire up NVU or your favourite webpage editor software.
  
  Create a new HTML file/webpage document.
  Type in the links which will link to the PDFs like so <A HREF="(YOUR PDF LINK)">Download</A>.
  Then type in <BR> which means line break - kind of like pressing the ENTER button on your keyboard.
  Do it for the next link.
  After you've finished for all of your links. Save the file.
  Save it as index.html.
  Then put it in the folder fastinternetmarketingtips.com/traffictacticspdfs
  It should work.
  
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  Billy Deakin 16 years ago
  
  Hi Chris
  
  Sorry if I confused you.
  
  Following Neoneria's advice above should sort it for you - but something I noticed from one of your earlier posts - check the case of your filenames... Depending on your server configuration TrafficTactics.pdf and traffictactics.pdf are not the same!
  
  Bill
  
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  athena08 16 years ago
  
  Hi Guys,
  
  Thanks again for all of your help with this...in the end I had the files at another website so for the time being I just directed the customers there instead as I was getting behind on my other work needing to get done.
  
  I will make some time soon to try this again with all of your guidance from your posts.
  
  Hope I can help you guys out somehow in the future.
  
  Take care,
  Chris
  
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  quicksilver 16 years ago
  
  Hi,
  
  Looks like all has been solved but I would suggest that you put your pdf's in a separate directory with a html index file like this:
  *************************************************
  <HTML>
  <HEAD>
  <TITLE>Your site title</TITLE>
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
  <META NAME="description" CONTENT="your content description">
  </HEAD>
  <BODY>
  <CENTER>
  <TABLE BGCOLOR="white" WIDTH="650" BORDER="5" BORDERCOLORDARK="gray" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="white" CELLPADDING="5">
  <CENTER>
  <TR><TH><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="red">The Athena08 Site</FONT> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="red">Site</FONT><BR>
  </th>
  </tr>
  <tr><th>You are not allowed to access this area. Please <a href="http://www.your-site.com">click here</a>
  to go to our main page.
  </th>
  </tr>
  </table>
  </body>
  *********************************************
  Then if someone 'stumbles' across the page they can't get your stuff.
  
  Good luck,
  
  Mike Hayes
  The Mike Hayes Total Info Site
  
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smddev 15 years ago

Use HTML editor like Dreamweaver and make links through that, so there will no errors
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