Linking to a file on my website webspace??
 

I haven't yet got around to creating my website, but I have the domain, and I have the webspace from 123reg.co.uk and I-Web Solutions respectively.

Would it be possible to upload a file to my domain/website and post a link to it from a forum board?? So that the audience can click on the link and it will download the file, without them going to my website, which isn't quite finished yet?

Basically in a nutshell can I link to my webspace, even though I haven't created a website as such??

Thanks if anyone can help me. :)

Re: Linking to a file on my website webspace??
 

Yep just upload the file and then you can use the url to link to it from anywhere really :)
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Oh the link would look something like
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/user.na...name.extension
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Obviously you would change the link to point at the webspace you have uploaded the file to
eg.
http://webspaceurl.here/filename.here

Re: Linking to a file on my website webspace??
 

Sorry for appearing a little silly, and thanks for your reply - but would a link like that take the recipient to my website the file is on, or will it download the file automatically??

Re: Linking to a file on my website webspace??
 

if the file is on your ntl webspace, the recipient will just download the file. some free webspace providers don't allow this (they want their ads etc. to be seen!) so they redirect the recipient to a web page.

Re: Linking to a file on my website webspace??
 

Yep, of course you can.
First you need an FTP client, I recommend Filezilla: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net

Enter the details into the Filezilla site manager given to you by I-Web in your welcome email and connect.
All you do then is browse to the public_html folder of the remote server, create a folder for the file if you need to like "files" then just browse to the file on the left panel and right click and choose "upload".

To link to the file from your webspace just visit your domain like this:
http://www.example.com/folder/
Hopefully you should see a directory listing like this:
http://www.richardm.co.uk/images/forums_etc/

Just highlight the link to the file then copy and paste into whatever you want. In Firefox you can just right click on the link and choose "copy link location".

Re: Linking to a file on my website webspace??
 

yes you can link to your webspace although it is not even created yet.
in whatever forum, just write your wed address down, it should turn to a link, and people can click on it, there will be nothing there like a 404 file not found page will be displayed, unless you add files to your webspace.

make up a file and send it to your webspace by using the above link form Richard M for filezilla, add your details like your username and password then connect to your site, there you can upload and download files to and from your site with Filezilla.

if you update your site, then everyone who ahs not been to your site will see the new pages, anyone that has, will need to refresh their browser, to force the page to show, or they will need to clear their cache/temp internet files.

if you are new to making up webpages, try and call your homepage or the first page you want displayed as index.html a good way to learn html is to click view > view source in your browser, and this shows you the code of the page.

if you need a hand just PM me.

ik

Re: Linking to a file on my website webspace??
 

Thanks for the replies Richard and IK - I have Filezilla on my PC so I'll go about following your helpfull instructions now, while I've got time, ;) because it's back to work tomorrow. :rolleyes:

Re: Linking to a file on my website webspace??
 

Hi - Sorry for resurecting this thread, but I have appeared to successfully loaded an image to my cgi-bin directory via FTP FileZilla i.e. the image in the tree structure shows it is there, but when I go to my webspace, it is still coming up with Forbidden message You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request??

..but the image shows in FileZilla has in the cgi-bin folder??

Anyone know where I have gone wrong? Many Thanks.

Re: Linking to a file on my website webspace??
 

you havent gone wrong, the file is there!

the webspace is set up so that nobody can see the directory lsting when they browse to your cgi-bin folder (this is a good thing). Type in the full name and path of the file in your browser e.g.

http://your.website/cgi-bin/picture.jpg

and it should display.

the 404 not found means it couldnt find a webpage to display to explain the error, because you havent made one yet :)
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oh yeah, and make a separate directory in the root directory for images, cgi-bin is used for scripts and things.

Re: Linking to a file on my website webspace??
 

Hi bmxbandit - thanks for your prompt reply. The last bit you mentioned about created an images directory was the key. After I did this and uploaed my images to that directory I can now view the images by the relevant link. Thanks again. :)