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Regular Joined: Jan 18, 2011 Posts: 86

is this what you are looking for?

because this is what i get whenever i try to make download links:

Page Not Found

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dunno if that helps... otherwise tell me what you are looking for Smile

best regards
rrclansite

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:14 am

i'm not making any sense here am i?

rofl @ my noobness Sad

registered · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:25 am

It sounds like either something was deleted or permissions are wrong. Try to reupload the module making sure to change the config file '_check4htaccess' => false,

Also make sure the files and folders have the correct permissions. If your other folders are 755, make sure those are too. Files should be 644.

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:15 am

so in other words:

upload Downloads2 towards:
root/modules/

CHMOD Downloads2 folder 755
CHMOD files uploaded 644?

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:27 am

Yes. The files and folders should already have those permissions once uploaded. Double check to make sure...

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:42 pm

ok so my modules/downloads2 folder is CHMOD 755 aswell as the KCfinder

KCfinder apparentely has problems with the upload thingy because whenever i try to upload something with 11.1 MiB it says: unknown error.

what i did next: FTP my Movie config for cod4 in a .rar extension towards: modules/downloads2/kcfinder/files/

file permission was 644
so i activated the kcfinder again to add a new download, could find the uploaded .rar file. All good we happy, but when i try to download my actual file we get:

404 error, page not found...

so perhaps i'm still doing something wrong?
your help is much appreciated

best regards,
rrclansite

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:07 pm

Here are the requirements for kcfinder to work. Make sure your server meets or exceeds these:

Compatibality

*KCFinder is tested on Apache 2 web server only. Probably it will works on other web servers. If your web server does not support .htaccess files, you should take care turning off script engine in the upload directory.

*Only PHP5 server-side scripting is supported. GD extension is required and safe mode should be off. To work with client-side HTTP cache, the PHP must be configured as Apache module.

*KCFinder supports Fileinfo PHP extension for MIME type detection of the files. If you decide to use this feature, you should load Fileinfo extension. PHP versions prior to 5.3 need to install Fileinfo PECL package.

*PHP ZIP extension should be loaded in order to have ability downloading multiple files and directories as single ZIP file.

*Browser side code requires modern browser supporting CSS3. KCFinder does not work in Internet Explorer 6. The only way to use KCFinder with Internet Explorer 6 is to install Google Chrome Frame ActiveX plugin.

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 1:14 pm

i can't get it to work and thats frustrating me.

Ill try the regular download module instead with FTP-ing if somebody lets me know to which folder i should FTP the files for download. because i tried some, and none are working.

should i create a folder in my root? or should i create a folder in my download module?
Which CHMOD's should be applied to folders and which to files.

Do i need PHP5 on my server?
Do i need GD extension in order for it to work with FTP?

basically do i need everything Nuken has stated above? because if thats so ill need to contact my webhost to see if they have all of this available.

(yes i'm stepping away from the upload functionality here so i'm not going to use the KCfinder in order to make my downloads work, ill do it oldschool, but i'll need to know how oldschool works seeing as i can't get it to work...)

Hope i'm making any sense here whatsoever
Hope people can guide me into the right direction for using the REGULAR download module.

/e
Do i need any MODS installed on my website in order to make the download mudule work?

best regards,
rrclansite

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 2:55 pm

rrclansite wrote:

KCfinder apparentely has problems with the upload thingy because whenever i try to upload something with 11.1 MiB it says: unknown error.

This sounds more like a server limitation to me, either the server won't allow a file that size to be uploaded or it hits the script timeout and fails.

Quote:

what i did next: FTP my Movie config for cod4 in a .rar extension towards: modules/downloads2/kcfinder/files/
file permission was 644
so i activated the kcfinder again to add a new download, could find the uploaded .rar file. All good we happy, but when i try to download my actual file we get:

404 error, page not found...

so perhaps i'm still doing something wrong?
your help is much appreciated

best regards,
rrclansite

If you use your ftp software to find the file on the server, is it showing the correct file size?
Does the file name have any spaces or mixed upper/lowercase characters?

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 5:12 am

ok i uploaded:

movie config by krava.rar --> modules/downloads2/kcfinder/files/

size was 11.604.792 in my computer
size was 11.604.792 on the server

name was: movie config by krava.rar

files folder has 755 chmod
the actual file has 644 chmod

i have no clue whatsoever what i'm doing wrong rofl Sad

thanks for your help in advance once more

best regards,
rrclansite

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 5:33 am

Replace the spaces in the files name with underscores _ .

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 5:35 am

So the name of the file is
movie config by krava.rar and not krava.rar ?
If thats the case, that is your problem. You cannot have spaces in the file name because they will get urlencoded, which I believe is %20 so although you wont see it, the actual url to download that file would be
http://yoursite.com/modules/downloads2/kcfinder/files/movie%20config%20by%20krava.rar

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 1:35 pm

when i try that %20 thing it wont work, ill try the underscore thing or just add it alltogether Wink

i'll keep you posted

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:19 am

like i said, i'd keep you posted!

so here's my update:

My needs were:
1)No Third Party software involved to host my files which needed to be able for download (think of rapidshare / zShare, http://www.zshare.net/)
2) Preferably easy way to upload the files which needed to go towards a download (AKA upload feature in the Download module)

Results how i made my downloads module work.

1) Use FTP to transfer files up to your website / webhost
2) upload the files towards the following folder: www.yourdomain.com/uploads/file/
3) CHMOD your uploads folder 755
4) CHMODyour file folder 755
5) Files which need to go in your download section (for me that would be movieconfigbykrava.rar) need to have CHMOD 644 after uploading (should do it automatically, check to be sure)
6) to add a link to your download go: www.yourdomain.com/uploads/file/filename.rar
or go: www.yourdomain.com/uploads/file/filename.exe

and that about covers it

Hope people will have use for this post in the future