How do I get a link to a file I have uploaded to my website?
I have uploaded a file to my website by going to Admin - File Manager then I uploaded the file to this destination *Portal Root\Pages\Customisation* how do I then get a link to the file I just uploaded?
The file is myFile.PDF so I have tried this path but it doesn't send me back the file:
http://mywebsite.com.au/Pages/Customisation/myFile.pdf
The "portal root" is typically housed in the directory "Portals/0," so the full URL would be http://mywebsite.com.au/Portals/0/Pages/Customisation/myFile.pdf. If you have multiple sites/portals within the DNN installation, that you'll need to find the ID, instead of assuming that it's 0.
There's also a small possibility that the home directory has been customized to some other directory name entirely. But you can verify the directory on the Advanced Settings tab of Site Settings, in the Page Management section.
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I have an excel file in Teams folder. I linked this file using URL in a website.
So, the challenge is every week I upload a new excel file in the teams folder with the same name and archives/ move the previous file to other location. But the newly uploaded file URL gets changed/ updated and gives trouble/error while accessing the file in website. How can I share the file in website when I upload new excel file in teams folder without changing the file link given in website?
For security, I want to upload employee contracts to the hidden server side path. The upload works fine.
However, I also want to be able to download or view that file when I am logged in the front end of my website, with a seceret link. Is this possible?
Any other ideas?
Joomla website, hosted on Rack Space Cloud Sites.
Sure, upload the file to a directory outside the webroot, or a directory with a .htaccess file that contains "deny from all". Have a sql table that maps the primary key to the file name, the file's content-type and access control information and other metadata about this file. Then save the file as the primary key, so /uploads/1.
Then to download the file, burn a sql query to figure out if they should be able to download the file.
<?
//...
$q=mysql_fetch_array($q);
header("content-type: ".$q['content_type']);
print file_get_contents("./uplaods/".intval($q['id']));
?>
is it possible to redirect a link to a pdf file?
This is my site: www.mysite.com
And I createad a redirect link that if I open www.mysite.com/documentation - an index.html file will open but for now this index.html file says it's under construction.
Can I redirect the link to a pdf file?
I uploaded the pdf file into the server. So that if I open www.mysite.com/documentation, my pdf named as thedocument.pdf will open.
Is it possible?
If your web hosting provider won't allow you alter the default extensions (i.e. to add pdf) then you could create a HTML page to act as the landing page and then redirect to the PDF.
Details here: http://www.web-source.net/html_redirect.htm
Yes, this is possible. Check your web server configuration that currently points /documentation to index.html, and change it to point to thedocument.pdf.
Be aware that the PDF may or may not load in the user's browser. Some configurations will prompt the user to download the file.
You can achieve this with a modX Weblink.
Upload your pdf to a place from where it is publicly downloadable. For this example I will upload it to modx/assets/content/test.pdf. You should now be able to download your file from http://yourdomain.tld/assets/content/test.pdf.
Create a new weblink resource in modX (Site -> New Weblink) on the base level of your resource-tree. Make it a container and type in 'documentation' as the alias of your resource. You should also make sure, that you already use friendly urls, but your question sounds like you're already doing this.
A weblink has a field to enter the 'weblink' instead of the ressource content. Just use the URL from which you are already able to download your pdf-file. In this example, this would be http://yourdomain.tld/assets/content/test.pdf.
If you now view the newly created weblink resource under http://yourdomain.tld/documentation, you should instantly download a copy of your file test.pdf.
Hi suppose my site as www.xyz.com and i have a folder as _Userfile which have file uploaded by my users and if they download there file the link is www.xyz/_Userfile/userfile.doc now i want to learn this:
if some one has the link to other user file he can download it i want to solve this(privacy)
2: protect my site file from website downloader.
ASAP plz
Also i am using virtual directory to save my user files so i need a way to protect any type of file to be downloaded by any kind of software
You'll have to implement an authentication mechanism, and to serve those files through a server-side application (in PHP, Java or whatever), that checks if the authenticated user has the right to access a resource, then reads the resource from the disk and writes it to the HTTP response. The documents should be placed in a location that is not directly accessible through HTTP.
Just add index.html file in the folder _Userfile... This will prevent others accessing the whole directory listing in _UserFile folder! Simple isn't it?
Today I moved my website to a new hosting company (Verio). I've done this lots of times before, and I know that your website should go inside the "htdocs" folder.
Now usually when I use FileZilla, I can do a "Right Click" on a filename to get the URL of that file. This is the result of my root default file: ftp://test#test.com/www/htdocs/Research/index.php
However, on the web, the true URL of my default file is: www.test.com/Research/index.php
My index.php file is in the website root folder. Does anyone know why FileZilla would include the server folders "www/htdocs" as part of the URL? These folders should not normally be visible to the user.
OR, is this look correct?
That ftp url is correct. Your FTP account has access to the two folders (www/htdocs/) before the document root, as most hosting providers provide.
You are also correct to assume that http access is limited to the document root. (Meaning they cannot see www/htdocs/)