Hosting files for others to download on my website

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Posted by dj2kTA on Jul-15-2004 00:15:

Hosting files for others to download on my website

I want to host some small mp3 files that I can download onto my phone for ringtones and some friends' mixes on my website so that others can download them. My question is how do I create a simple direct-download link? You know the 'right click, save as' type. Or just a basic page that has the files listed so that they are able to be viewed before downloading. I've tried to figure it out a few times, but really have very little knowledge of doing those website related things. I have Dreamweaver MX and frontpage too, but havent really seen how to do it in there.

I have some of the files already uploaded to my ftp account with my host company. I just dont know how to link them in the code or whatever.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Posted by Tranc3 on Jul-15-2004 05:33:

Everything will be relative to your base folder, your first level, your root. So if the provider is www.domains.com and your area is located at www.domains.com/mypage, AND you created a new folder for mp3s and such, so that the path was www.domains.com/mypage/mp3....you'd link it like this:

[a href="/mp3/music.mp3"]Click here to download this mp3[/a]

Only you'd replace all instances of [ with < and replace all instances of ] with >

If you have it in your root folder, just do something like [a href="/music.mp3"]Click here to download this mp3[/a]

Posted by dj2kTA on Jul-16-2004 16:26:

Thanks a lot, I'll give it a try.

Posted by dj2kTA on Jul-18-2004 03:50:

Got it! After using your advice and viewing source on my friends' site, I figured it out.

Thanks again!