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I have placed 3 mp3?s into my Music folder on the iDisk. I thought that the URL for accessing the Music folder would be -
http://homepage.mac....username/.music
and anyone then visiting the site could then download any/all of the 3 mp3?s that I have placed in there. Yet my browser, when I tried to visit the site, couldn?t find it. Am I doing something wrong?
John
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Posted 22 February 2003 - 02:57 PM
The only way to access things not in your sites folder is by setting up an http folder. On win98 go to my computer and then web folders (on XP make a new network place) the website is http://idisk.mac.com/username and the password is your iDisk password. Hope I could help!! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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Posted 22 February 2003 - 03:04 PM
If you want to have your iDisk viewable on a page of your .Mac homepage you have t put the MP3's in your Public Folder.
I would go to the .Mac website>your Homepage>Create a Page>File Sharing
I would go to the .Mac website>your Homepage>Create a Page>File Sharing
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Posted 22 February 2003 - 07:04 PM
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All the tutorials seem to suggest that
Music goes into the Music folder
Photos go in the Photo folder
Movies go in the Movie folder
and I would have thought that once they're in their respective folders, there was a way to share them on the web without having to do anything else - but I guess life on the web isn't that simple. I will try out your suggestions.
Thanks
John
All the tutorials seem to suggest that
Music goes into the Music folder
Photos go in the Photo folder
Movies go in the Movie folder
and I would have thought that once they're in their respective folders, there was a way to share them on the web without having to do anything else - but I guess life on the web isn't that simple. I will try out your suggestions.
Thanks
John
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Posted 22 February 2003 - 07:22 PM
Well, since you have to think of your iDisk as a remote HD, that would all be true for you, but guests that want to see the stuff would need a login and password. It's for your security. Otherwise it would be pointless for you to use .Mac as a backup solution.
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Posted 22 February 2003 - 07:55 PM
I'm sorry to confuse you. I thought that you were trying to access your iDisk over the web from a PC, because I assumed that if you were on a mac you would just load your iDisk the normal way through the finder and download the files. The file system on apple's servers does not allow you to go up a directory, so you cannot load a folder above your sites folder without administrative priviledges. What you could do is move your music folder inside your sites folder and then dump files in there instead of the original. Just a thought. . .
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Posted 22 February 2003 - 08:30 PM
Ok, so now I?ve got the hang of placing the MP3?s into the Public folder and then placing that on the Web. Now how do I deal with the following scenario?
Say I?ve got 3 folders in my Public folder -
Folder A3 songs
Folder Banother 3 songs
Folder Cyet another 3 songs
I want to have 3 different web sites - one for each folder such that there are NO links from one web page to the web pages of the other 2 folders. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks
John
Say I?ve got 3 folders in my Public folder -
Folder A3 songs
Folder Banother 3 songs
Folder Cyet another 3 songs
I want to have 3 different web sites - one for each folder such that there are NO links from one web page to the web pages of the other 2 folders. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks
John
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Posted 22 February 2003 - 09:04 PM
I think that the pages are always linked. you don't have control over that.
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Posted 22 February 2003 - 10:12 PM
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Move over and give the master some room. :: shoves others aside :: Seriously now. Your original idea indeed will work. You made one error however. In doing HTML, things can be picky. Same thing when simply doing any web work. You tried... http://homepage.mac....username/.music However, URLs are extremely picky about upper and lower casing. It will work if you use http://homepage.mac....username/.Music And yes, I've tested this.
Sorry, but you lost me here. I'll take a stab at it. So you have three folders http://homepage.mac....rname/.Public/A http://homepage.mac....rname/.Public/B http://homepage.mac....rname/.Public/C You wish for these to be seperate pages unknown or linked with each other. As long as you simply put the index.html in each folder you can access the appropriate URL and you won't even know about the other two. This is simple, so I would assume you meant something more complicated. If you elaborate I could probably help you out.
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Move over and give the master some room. :: shoves others aside :: Seriously now. Your original idea indeed will work. You made one error however. In doing HTML, things can be picky. Same thing when simply doing any web work. You tried... http://homepage.mac....username/.music However, URLs are extremely picky about upper and lower casing. It will work if you use http://homepage.mac....username/.Music And yes, I've tested this.
In reply to:
Ok, so now I?ve got the hang of placing the MP3?s into the Public folder and then placing that on the Web. Now how do I deal with the following scenario?
Say I?ve got 3 folders in my Public folder -
Folder A 3 songs
Folder B another 3 songs
Folder C yet another 3 songs
I want to have 3 different web sites - one for each folder such that there are NO links from one web page to the web pages of the other 2 folders. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks
John
Ok, so now I?ve got the hang of placing the MP3?s into the Public folder and then placing that on the Web. Now how do I deal with the following scenario?
Say I?ve got 3 folders in my Public folder -
Folder A 3 songs
Folder B another 3 songs
Folder C yet another 3 songs
I want to have 3 different web sites - one for each folder such that there are NO links from one web page to the web pages of the other 2 folders. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks
John
Sorry, but you lost me here. I'll take a stab at it. So you have three folders http://homepage.mac....rname/.Public/A http://homepage.mac....rname/.Public/B http://homepage.mac....rname/.Public/C You wish for these to be seperate pages unknown or linked with each other. As long as you simply put the index.html in each folder you can access the appropriate URL and you won't even know about the other two. This is simple, so I would assume you meant something more complicated. If you elaborate I could probably help you out.
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Posted 23 February 2003 - 08:41 AM
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As long as you simply put the index.html in each folder you can access the appropriate URL and you won't even know about the other two.
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Thanks very much for your help thus far. This is certainly the direction that I want to go. Never having travelled down this road before though, forgive me for asking what is obviously a rather dumb question - what on earth is this index.html that I?m supposed to place into each of the 3 folders. Looks like once I get this figured out, I?ll be able to do what I want here.
Thanks
John
As long as you simply put the index.html in each folder you can access the appropriate URL and you won't even know about the other two.
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Thanks very much for your help thus far. This is certainly the direction that I want to go. Never having travelled down this road before though, forgive me for asking what is obviously a rather dumb question - what on earth is this index.html that I?m supposed to place into each of the 3 folders. Looks like once I get this figured out, I?ll be able to do what I want here.
Thanks
John
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Posted 23 February 2003 - 09:30 AM
Hi
As you can tell, if you place an HTML file called anything other than index.html in a web directly, the server will either display the directory of all of the files or tell you there is no website. Web servers have a certain list of files they look for first. I don't remember the actual order. I know it starts with index.html. Web servers look for a file named index.html to be considered as the "start" page. Than they may check for home.html or main.html and so on and so forth. This can be changed by the server administrator. No matter what the name of the other files are, index.html will be the first to load in most cases. So, as long as you put your different index.html files in those seperate folders (directories) you should be fine. Let me show you sort of. I've put some very simple but different index.html files in each of these folders.
http://homepage.mac.....Public/folderA
http://homepage.mac.....Public/folderB
http://homepage.mac.....Public/folderC
Go to each and see what I mean. Tell me if that explain it any better.
MacCheetah3
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As you can tell, if you place an HTML file called anything other than index.html in a web directly, the server will either display the directory of all of the files or tell you there is no website. Web servers have a certain list of files they look for first. I don't remember the actual order. I know it starts with index.html. Web servers look for a file named index.html to be considered as the "start" page. Than they may check for home.html or main.html and so on and so forth. This can be changed by the server administrator. No matter what the name of the other files are, index.html will be the first to load in most cases. So, as long as you put your different index.html files in those seperate folders (directories) you should be fine. Let me show you sort of. I've put some very simple but different index.html files in each of these folders.
http://homepage.mac.....Public/folderA
http://homepage.mac.....Public/folderB
http://homepage.mac.....Public/folderC
Go to each and see what I mean. Tell me if that explain it any better.
MacCheetah3
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Posted 23 February 2003 - 09:32 AM
That is sooo cool. I stand completely and totally corrected!! (you can't blame me for not knowing, I'm only 13 /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif ) You can access your whole iDisk from the web but what if don't want people to be able to see it? Is there a way to hide it? It seems that apple makes a weak atempt by putting a "this page has not been setup yet" message, but if anyone knew the names of files it would be easy to steal them.
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Posted 23 February 2003 - 09:41 AM
Hi
AVGuy There are several ways I see around this.
1) Make it a very odd and difficult name.
2) Change the Guest permissions to nothing for that directory or a directory you wish for no one but you to see or even just those files or file.
3) Don't put them on a web server.
So far, I haven't gotten that little period (.) before the directory name trick to work anywhere but on the .Mac servers.
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AVGuy There are several ways I see around this.
1) Make it a very odd and difficult name.
2) Change the Guest permissions to nothing for that directory or a directory you wish for no one but you to see or even just those files or file.
3) Don't put them on a web server.
So far, I haven't gotten that little period (.) before the directory name trick to work anywhere but on the .Mac servers.
MacCheetah3
"Fly like a squirrel to the sea"
