Linking to a file????????

**hipopony66** · Oct 14th, 2003, 03:48 PM

Hey, I'm working on a small website and I'm running some webserver software. I want to to link to a file on my PC which will act as the server. What is wrong with this link? I can't seem to get it to work. I'm trying to link to a file on my "F:" drive. Is this fomatted wrong? I have my static IP address, then the local disk the file resides on, and then the file. Where am I wrong here? Any help appreciated.

http://999.999.999.9/F:/myfile.zip

**Cander** · Oct 14th, 2003, 03:53 PM

It doesnt work that way. Put the file into the folder where the web site pointss to.

**hipopony66** · Oct 14th, 2003, 04:09 PM

I'm running a small webserver app and want to host my site from the "F:" drive of my PC. My site folder is F:\Mysite\

How can I connect to the index.html file through http? I am able to do this fine through FTP, but I wanted to have a frontend for access to my files (pics I took at car shows).

**mendhak** · Oct 15th, 2003, 12:14 AM

Check the web server app (which one is it?) for root directory, and change it to F:/. You can then put all your files there, even if it ain't web pages

**plenderj** · Oct 15th, 2003, 03:59 AM

Also, 999.999.999.9 is not a valid IP address

**hipopony66** · Oct 16th, 2003, 01:12 PM

I got that set, but how would I link to a specific file with a link on the webpage? I'm using Ability Webserver.

**mendhak** · Oct 16th, 2003, 10:42 PM

<a href="http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/abc.zip">Click here</a>

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Could you give me an example?

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