I got a noob question of my own

[ravanah]

Hey there guys , im new to hostmonster since 3-4 days now . I never built a website before however , im ready to give it my best .

I am currently trying to upload a 70 Meg video on my site (the upload seems to be successfull (I went in the control panel ->File manager and uploaded it )

I want to post this video as a download on my site but i cannot seem to be able to do so .


I added a "secret" page to my website (i only want 1 person to be able to find this video) my question is simple :

How to i link a button to my video so he can download it ? Here what i am trying so far , i was not succesful .

1 - Uploaded the video using File manager
2 - Using the website wizrd , i created a new "secret" page with only 1 button linked to the video . To get the url to the video , i went in File manager/and selected my video , right clicked , properties and pasted the url there (propably not good one though)


Can anybody give me the steps to acheive my goal ? thanks !!!!

Rav

[charlesgan]

well, if you put this link on anywhere on the website, possibly someone will going to find it right.

for sample, renamed the file to something like this:
"http://www.yourdomain.com/video_friendname.wmv"
And give this path to your friend only. not to put the link at website.

[Hostalot]

In other words just give your friend the direct link to your video and he will be prompted to download it. Just make sure that link doesn't get out in the "wild" and starts spreading....

[charlesgan]

you just like to repeat what i said :)

[carpe-dm.org]

(I know this post is over a year old, but I thought I'd add this note for those like me who find this conversation after the fact.) :)

You could also put the video in its own directory somewhere in your web file structure, then password-protect it using "Password Protect Directories" in cPanel. That way, even if somebody finds where it is, they can't get to it without the username and password.

[shadmego]

(I know this post is over a year old, but I thought I'd add this note for those like me who find this conversation after the fact.) :)

You could also put the video in its own directory somewhere in your web file structure, then password-protect it using "Password Protect Directories" in cPanel. That way, even if somebody finds where it is, they can't get to it without the username and password.

You can also place the video in your home directory, outside of the path of your website:

/home/username/videos

In your webpage, say, index.html, you can put a path to: ../videos/some_video.swf.

Doing this you will bypass the need to password protect your video directory while still keeping people out of the directory itself, since nobody is allowed access to the home directory except you ... and your webpages .................. .. . .....

~regards