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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: rogerdee on April 09, 2006, 04:42:39 PM

Title: helpwith uploading to a website
Post by: rogerdee on April 09, 2006, 04:42:39 PM

ok i been making a website  and i got a ftp client program and i can upload  on to the web site  but how do i do it so that people can down load a film i put on it?.
do i have to make a special folder do i have to havea special link?

 i am new to his and having trouble,i couldnt find anything hepful inmy local libery an need it told to me in simple laymans terms

Title: helpwith uploading to a website
Post by: OOZ662 on April 09, 2006, 10:31:49 PM

Find out what your site's "root" folder is. Mine is "ftp.site.com/var/www/html/" That means that everything I put in that folder will be in the "main folder." Say I put a file named "blah.gif" in the above folder. It would be linked as http://www.site.com/blah.gif
Then if you put that file inside a folder called "images," then put that folder in the above one, the link would be http://www.site.com/images/blah.gif

An email to the hosting company will be the most simple way to find out what your "root" folder is. If the service came with a "control panel" then it's likily listed in it somewhere.