By mgrogean on

I need to add .pdf files to my site and then provide a link for the public to download the files however, I don't know where these files go when uploaded and what link to provide when creating the webpage where the .pdf link will be. Help....
I inherited this website so I don't know how the previous designer did this.

Thank you,
Michele G.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

For a simple text link, you could upload the .pdf files to sites/default/files and link to them using <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/sites/default/files/filename.pdf">your text here</a> in the body of your page.

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mgrogean commented

Thank you but where is the /sites/default/files folder? I would like to see the documents that are in this "folder" so I can delete old documents and upload new ones.
Thank you,
Michele G.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Hi Michele, do you have FTP access to your website? Or a file manager in your web host's control panel? In the root directory (public_html), you should see the sites folder.

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mgrogean commented

Thank you, now I just need permissions to do this. That's the other hard thing about this is my permissions level to download or see anything is minimal. I will have to go through my IT manager to do this.

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sreyas commented

I would recommend you install the modules ckeditor and imce. Ckeditor allows you to edit your contents with WYSIWYG editor and imce allows you to browse through the drupal files, and upload new files to the server.

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mgrogean commented

Thank you, now I just need permissions to do this. That's the other hard thing about this is my permissions level to download or see anything is minimal. I will have to go through my IT manager to do this.