How do i upload files for people to download

[extreme]

Hey everyone! how do i upload files to my site for people to download. My host is ipowerweb. The site is www.pj101.com


Thanks

[extreme]

BUMP

[reader]

Does your ISP give you FTP space or only web space?

Mindspring used to give me FTP space and you would configure it so files in the FTP directory, had different levels of access. /ftp/incoming allowed users to upload to that directory while /ftp/any_other_name were all restricted to "read-only." Last year, they informed me they were no longer making FTP space available. :-(

Check with your ISP first. If they don't allow you to make files available, you can get around that by writing a web page that links to each of the files in a directory, or some of them.

If they opposite click on the link and select "Save Target As..." they can download the files.

[extreme]

yeper

[Casper]

Couldn't you just upload the files into a folder on your site in .zip format, created a link to that zip folder, and then when clicked it would start the download.. It is as simple as that.

[extreme]

I tired that. For somereason it did not work. hmm. all well

[cyberskye]

Create a subfolder called downloads (right off your doc root). Put the files you want to offer there (via ftp).

When people go to www.yoursite.com/downloads/ (or wherever you put your download folder), they will get a listing of what you have there (assuming permissions/access).

I noticed you created a page called download.html - that page isn't needed as the server should provide an index of the files in that folder. That's easier than having to update the static page with new entries anyway...

Make sense?


Skye