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798852 2009-08-06 14:01:00 Hey!

In Apache2:


<a href="/home/gregor/ftp/test.zip">test.zip</a>

Whenever I click on that link it says 'page cannot be displayed'.

I've tried adding a .htaccess file in /var/www and also tried editing the /etc/apache2/mods-available/mime.conf file.

In both of those I added

AddType application/octet-stream .zip
AddType application/octet-stream .exe

Restarted apache and still got the same issue.

Anyone know how to sort this out?

Thank you,




Gregor 		WarNox (8772)
798853 2009-08-06 14:30:00 Which error are you getting? Is it a 404, 403, 500, or something else? We really need more information before we can be of any help to you.

Mimetype definitions are unlikely to be the problem. 		Erayd (23)
798854 2009-08-06 20:47:00 mv /home/gregor/ftp/test.zip /var/www
Change the link to <a href="test.zip">test.zip</a>

Then try :)

Basically you need to put the files in your "webroot", which is usually /var/www
That is then called "/" as far as the web server is concerned, so /home/gregor/ftp/test.zip is most probably /var/www/home/gregor/ftp/test.zip -- hence why it cant find it. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
798855 2009-08-07 01:45:00 mv /home/gregor/ftp/test.zip /var/www
Change the link to <a href="test.zip">test.zip</a>

Then try :)

Basically you need to put the files in your "webroot", which is usually /var/www
That is then called "/" as far as the web server is concerned, so /home/gregor/ftp/test.zip is most probably /var/www/home/gregor/ftp/test.zip -- hence why it cant find it.
Gaaa.... well spotted - I missed that completely! 		Erayd (23)
798856 2009-08-07 06:22:00 Chilling_Silence:

Yes, I know the files should be in /var/www, but I wanted to access them from /home/gregor/ftp/ because that's where they're already for ftp access :)

I did put them in /var/www too and then edited the html code to read:

<a href="192.168.1.250

Which fixed the issue internally.

I'll try changing it to

<a href="test.zip">test.zip</a>

right now and see if that oversimplified method works :) 		WarNox (8772)
798857 2009-08-07 06:24:00 Ok so:

<a href="test . zip">test . zip</a>

works as it should . So do the files have to be in /var/www or it's subfolder for this to work? Can the files not be somewhere else on the filesystem?

Thanks,



Gregor 		WarNox (8772)
798858 2009-08-07 09:15:00 Try this:

mkdir /var/www/ftp
mount --bind /home/gregor/ftp /var/www/ftp

I'm unsure how well symlinks work, but ^^ is guaranteed to work if you can (permissions willing) :) 		Chilling_Silence (9)
798859 2009-08-07 10:28:00 Yea I thought there would be a way to do it with symlinks. I'll try that at some point.

Thanks for the help guys!! 		WarNox (8772)
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