Hi , I want to upload my ebook and couple other excel files in zip format. Then give that link to my buyers , so that they can download the whole package from web. how can i do this? any suggestions?
Yes.. simply create a folder on the server and upload the zip files to that folder. Than, either make a main page with links to those zip files by name and directory location. Or, give your users a direct link to the file names.. Link like this: http:// domain name here / folder name / zip file name Just use your own names and make sure to leave the spaces out from the above example. Boulder
Hi platina, First add your files to winzip to create the download file in zip format. Then create a page for download. The file name of the page should be something peculiar to guess. For example www.yourdomain.com/Icehhsdla.html You should add "no follow" tag to the web page. You can do some search on Google to find out this tag. This tag will prevent the search engines to list your download page on SERP. Then put your download link on that page. That's it. I hope this helps you. Dr.Eswararamanan
i tried this but finally find that they have the restrict to the size of my files,and it is not easy to get the addresses.
Dr.Eswararamanan, Yes, that is a good point about making the page nofollow.. to keeep it from being listed. Something like this in the <head> <html> <head> <meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow"> <title>Page Title</title> </head> <body> <br> <br> </body> </html> Can use different tags depending on what you want to do... like if want the page indexed but not the links or want the page not indexed and no links followed.. <meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow"> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> Could possibly use a robot.txt file as well or password protect the download directory. Avery001, what have you tried where there is a limit and links are hard to get? Do you mean your server places like a 2MB limit? Boulder
ok , i created one file xxx.html uploaded it. Then created one folder and uploaded the zip file. Now , when i open the page and click on download link , i am able to download whole package , but when i try to open it . It say the compressed zipped folder is invalid or corrupted.
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By the way most or half the times people rarely take that into consideration.Any remedy to such situations?
platina, You must not be uploading the zip file correctly for It to turn out corrupt. What method are you using to upload the zip file? Can you open the original zip file on your local machine okay, before it is uploaded and than re downloaded? zinruss is just trying to help, not really spam. I have an osCommerce set up myself. It works good if you have a lot of files to sell and distribute. It automatically sends the customer to the download zip file after the customer pays.. Boulder
Hi platina, Did you upload it in binary mode? Zip files should be uploaded in this mode otherwise you will get this error. Dr.Eswararamanan
whats binary mode? I am using go daddy and i am using go daddy upload option to upload zip folder to godaddy.
Hi platina, Binary mode is a option in the FTP software. Since you are using hosting control panel you may not know. If you use FTP software you can have some advantages than using controlpanel. Dr.Eswararamanan
I am trying to build a download page as well. From what I am reading, the best way to do this is to create a download page, this can be a simple html page built with Nuvu or something. have your zip files referenced from this page for download. Give the folder or page an obscure name and ensure it is marked "no follow" I have another thought. What about creating a Password protected page on Wordpress? Would that be fairly secure? Any disadvantage to doing it this way? Regards, Jeromy