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Originally Posted by Pea-Pod
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??
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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".