Putting Downloadables in a site

[blankloner]

Im sorry for double posting, but i waited a month and got no response, i have a website, im using frontpage to do it, in html. Anyways, id like to know how i could put downloads. i already have the downloads page, do i just link a link to the file thats on my pc? im running appserv, so everything is off my pc, im guessing all i have to do is put the file in the appserv folder, and make a link in the page to it, but im not sure if this will only open the file or also allow you to save it to your hard drive, thank you

[rjfvillarosa]

To allow downloading from your site the files need to be uploaded to your site's server, doing this involves the use of CGI scripts and I am not the person to talk to about this. I am sure there are a few people here who can help you though.

[webguy0000]

I'm sorry I don't think that is entirely accurate. To allow downloading of files from your website you merely have to link to them in the anchor tag of your html document.

Here is an example... say your html document and file to be downloaded (thefile.zip) are in the same folder. inside your html document you have a link that looks like this:

<a href="thefile.zip">Download File</a>

So now it is linked to thefile.zip which is in the same folder as the html document. If I created a folder in the same directory as these two files, naming it 'thefolder', I can then put thefile.zip in that folder to keep things organized. Now I would change the reference in my anchor tag to link to it in thefolder.

<a href="thefolder/thefile.zip">Download File</a>

All you have to do is upload the file to the same directory as your html document. You can not link to it on your computer, unless your computer is a working webserver.

webG

[webguy0000]

Read the last sentence of your post and thought I might clear something up. You can't force a file to be downloaded that is meant to be rendered by the web browser.. like an html document. You can't make a user download an html document via an anchor tag. It can be done with some CGI however. And I realize now that you are using your own computer as a webserver, so just put it in the same directory and you should be good.

webG

[mrmister1]

Since your using AppServ, I'm guessing your using the computer as the server. As Webguy said, all you have to do is make a link to the location of the file using the tag.

PHP Code:

<a href="C:\AppServ\Files\File.exe">Click here to download</a>