How to make a direct download link?

[CommittedC0der]

How do I make a direct download link for a program I want others to download from my website? and also it's not illegal right Google only brought up stuff that said it was illegal or something.

EDIT* I have no idea what section to post this in so......sorry if this is the wrong section.

[BlaineSch]

If you have the .exe url you can just make a link

<a href="http://example.com/program.exe">Download Here</a> 

[Orjan]

It's legal to spread shareware and freeware etc, but not pay-only software, but that you problably knew. how did google tell you that? error message? mail?

[CommittedC0der]

If you have the .exe url you can just make a link

<a href="http://example.com/program.exe">Download Here</a>

OK well in my case I have a .msi file and I tryed this:

href="http://empire-software.com/Password_Creator.msi"

But it says page not found so what do I do?

EDIT* Well no duh I got it working ,spelled my URL wrong.

[Red_Shadow]

Make sure the flie is located at your web-root (where index.html is placed) and has the *exact* name you typed in the address bar.

You need to understand how HTML work's.

Every tag opens a section/division of the text.
eg <a> tell's us this is an active (or whatever it's called in the HTML specification) part of the code. Everything until the end of this div (</a>) is part of it.

So when you do links you basically do:

<a href"link.com">Text in the "a" section - <a> makes this "clickable</a> <-- end of <a> (why the entire page isn't clickable.

the attribute "href" specifies the link that should be followed when action is taken to <a>.

So you always need <a href="link.tld">link name</a>.
You can't just write the bits "you need".

It seems you need to read this:
HTML Tutorial

[BlaineSch]

Don't forget about self ending tags not all tags have a ending tag..


input or break for example

<span style="color: green;">First Name:</span>
<input type="text" name="fname" value="Blaine" />
<br />

[Red_Shadow]

In xhtml they do, which is what you should be using.

Eg <br /> instead of <br> etc.

[CommittedC0der]

XD ya I know about closing tags and self closing tags and how to use the <a> tag I just posted the link instead of all the crap with it.

[Red_Shadow]

XD ya I know about closing tags and self closing tags and how to use the <a> tag I just posted the link instead of all the crap with it.

Then you should know href references all files, and the solution would have been obvious.

If you had *really* understood, I don't think this thread would have been necessary.

[BlaineSch]

Were all here to learn red_shadow, no point in judging.