Unable to download from Downloads

New Member Joined: Nov 25, 2012 Posts: 12

Yes, if going direct, the full link works fine. But when adding the full link to be used for the Downloads module, it doesn't. I have to drop the [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] from the beginning to pass the file validation and file size "tests" in the Downloads module as well as getting the download to work that way. I guess I could just add a section for document downloads listing the full links, but I'd also like to keep things consistent, organized and easy to find. Doing everything manually I would not do anywhere near as a good job as what the Downloads module already does or will do when I get everything squared away.

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 4:04 pm

Yes, just tried myself on my site and this works just fine:
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Are you sure that you have not modified the scripts at all or performed any other customizations? I am using anti-leaching, so it isn't related to that.

The key is using a relative link (file system-wise) to your download off the root of your RN site. So, for the above example, I have a directory under root called "public". The file referenced in the download above has a name of "Discernment-Part1.pdf" and the path I used in the download URL is:

public/Discernment-Part1.pdf

Hope that helps.

montego