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| Thread ID: 58035 | 2005-05-19 11:25:00 | How to link to a file on webpage? | andrew93 (249) | Press F1 |
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| 356681 | 2005-05-19 11:25:00 | I'm setting up a test website with links to files on my PC that I wish to share over the internet. I'm not sharing files with the public, it's a private webpage that my business partner will access so that he can get the latest versions of files on my PC. I've tried setting this up without success. If I create a link to a sample file, the html looks something like this: <P><A HREF="fibonacci.txt">Fibonacci</A></P> The file is in the same directory as the webpage and in testing (just on my PC), I can get the file to open by opening the page and clicking on the link. If I then host the page (using Simple Server and no-ip) and access my page through an anonymizer (i.e. megaproxy) and open port 80 on my router, I can see the page ok with the link. If I click on the link to the file I get an error - page / file not found. What am I doing wrong? Is it the html code? Or do I need to open another port (like an ftp port) in my router? I'm a newbie at this sort of stuff and am learning as I go. Any pointers appreciated. Thanks, Andrew |
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| 356682 | 2005-05-19 11:31:00 | Late edit : the latest test resulted in the text within the 'fibonacci' file displaying on a new page - how do I get it to pop up with the open / view / save option instead? (Maybe linking to a purely text file was a bad example....) | andrew93 (249) | ||
| 356683 | 2005-05-19 11:40:00 | You may need to zip the file and use the same code to link to the zip, or put instructions to right click / save link as.... . As far as I know most txt files will open in a browser window, some doc(MS Word) files will also open in a browser window if IE is the browser. If you figure this out I would also like to know. ....goes off googling.... |
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| 356684 | 2005-05-19 11:43:00 | Is converting to pdf an option? | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 356685 | 2005-05-19 21:34:00 | PDF's also usually open automatically in the browser, so I would suggest zipping the file and linking to that instead, as that will bring up the open/save dialog box. | Mary (6534) | ||
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