posting a link

[Faith516]

Can someone please help. I am trying to post an HTML link on my blogspot to a file hosted on my bluehost account. Everytime I post the zip file link it asks users to enter a username and password.

Can anyone tell me how to go about posting a link on another site without the username/password box popping up. I searched the forum and did not find any answers. I have contacted bluehost and they tell me they can't help.

Thanks

[felgall]

Only links that point to a file or folder that is password protected will pop up a request for the password. You must be typing in the wrong link.

[Faith516]

Thank you for your response but is there a way to set which files need to be password protected?

[felgall]

Unless you set up a password protected folder there shouldn't be any files on your site that ask for a password before accessing them.

[Faith516]

I have figured out how to post the link on blogspot but now when I do it goes to a message that says 'page not found'.

I am using this HTML code,

<a href=“http://www.mywebaddress.com/myfile”></a>

could it be doing this because my blog address is not pointed to my domain name?

[farcaster]

You need to specify the file extension, such as .txt or .pdf

Example: <a href=“http://www.mywebaddress.com/myfile.pdf”></a>

Otherwise the web server is looking for something like index.php, index.html, etc. in a folder called myfile

[Faith516]

Thank you, yes I am incuding the extension .zip just forgot to add it to my post. I still get the error message page not found though. I just can't figure out why it is doing that

[felgall]

I still get the error message page not found though. I just can't figure out why it is doing that

If the file was in the public_html folder then that reference would find it. Did you possibly upload it to somewhere outside that folder so it can't be accessed from the web?

[Faith516]

Thank you for all your help but I think I've finally got it worked out. for some reason the html code I posted wasn't working with blogger.