A while back I tried to upload a Word document onto my web-page so that people could download it if they wanted to. It didn’t work. The FTP finished correctly (I was using CuteFTP) but when I looked for the document on my page it wasn’t there.
Can I upload a Word document, have a link to it, and have it start up Word to view the document? If so, how? Could it be that I just didn’t have enough space on my server its about 100K and I already have several pics on my 2-MB page)? Or is there some reason it can’t be done?
If it can be done (and you have an example or instructions), please LMK!
I guess my first question is: how did you know it wasn’t there? If you connect again with CuteFTP can you see the file on the server side?
If you just made a link to it, and tried to use that, is it possible that you got the case wrong? It might be case-sensitive, so if you had MyDocument.doc a link with <a href=mydocument.doc>here</a> wouldn’t work.
I’d connect with the ftp again and just make sure it’s there. I have to ask, is there a reason that you can’t just convert the doc to html, so that anyone can read it? Not everyone has msword.
I’ve had a lot of problems using CuteFTP to upload Word documents, then linking them to webpages. I don’t know whether the problem lies with Windows 98 (which I use) or CuteFTP, but it nearly always lies with upper case vs lower case file extensions or filenames.