I am using Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 to make a new Final Fantasy game site, this is not my first time making a web site or using Dreamweaver....I have just never wanted to have a site that has downloads on it. The main kind of downloads I have are midi music files and flash movie files....I have asked my hosting company several times to tell me what I need to do to have downloads without giving the person full FTP access, but they have been very unsupportative. Anyone's help would be greatly appreciated.
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MIDI Downloads without giving full FTP access
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You can let the user use the http: protocol for their download. Instead of making the link the file look like:
[tab]ftp://myhost.com/finalfantasy/tips.txt
use:
[tab]
You will need to put a piece of text on the page instructing the user to right-click and select "Save As...", otherwise the browser will attempt to open the file.
Chip H.
[tab]ftp://myhost.com/finalfantasy/tips.txt
use:
[tab]
You will need to put a piece of text on the page instructing the user to right-click and select "Save As...", otherwise the browser will attempt to open the file.
Chip H.
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Thank you so much....I did what you said and it worked, That was actually the reason why I haven't released my new site layout yet...because it focuses very heavily on the downloads section and it would be a little dumb to have a downloads section that didn't work and I was not about to give anyone FTP access.
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