Re: Download files through web browser

>> <snip>
>> > Keith, we already have FTP server. Just try to set up a link in
>> webpage to download files through web browser ? No experience for
>> that. Thanks
>>
>> Okay. piece of cake... (mmm... cake)
>>
>> <a href="ftp://ftp.yourdomain.tld/path/to/file"> filename </a>
>>
>
> Sorry to give you misunderstanding. We do have FTP server set up in the
> Linux server. My question is how to set up like
> ftp://ftp.mydomain.com/path/to/filename , then people can directly
> download files through web browser, not go to access server through FTP?
>
> When I directly put ftp://ftp.mydomain.com/path/to/filename , I got
> error "window couldn't access the folder, make sure that you type file
> name correctly and have permission to do so..." Do I need to do some
> special thing in Linux in order to access files and download files like
> that ?

You need to set the permissions on the ftp directories so apache can read
them. You don't need either write or execute permissions on apache for
those directories where you store the files.


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Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
(416)696 6070