FTP from website

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What do I need in order to be able to have links on my website to files
residing there so people can click on the link and download the file?

These are all public doman things ... no pirating involved.
 
az-willie said:
What do I need in order to be able to have links on my website to files
residing there so people can click on the link and download the file?

These are all public doman things ... no pirating involved.
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You don't "need" anything more than you already have. You can just link to
the file.
<a href="\\directory\filename.exe">Link text</a> will work. However, this is
http, which, most of the time, isn't as efficient as ftp for transferring
anything of significant size. You'll need an FTP server for this. IIS does
it, I believe (frankly, I've never used IIS, I've always gone for 3rd party
web servers). There are many shareware/freeware FTP servers, google for a
good one. Have that running, then put a link in your website like this:
<a href="ftp://username:password@yourdomain\directory\filename.exe">Link
text</a>. This will open the link in Internet Explorer (assuming they're
using IE), which many people hate for FTP (myself included). So they'll have
to connect with an FTP client. But that's totally up to the user. Hope that
helped.

KB
 
I would find some server that lets people download and open a separate
window so people can download it. It is too much of a pain to store
applications on a server. You really need to create a directory to store
the files on to keep them separately. Some servers require special
permissions to gain access to directories.
 
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