By graeme smith on

I'm probably being stupid. It's one of my few talents. But...
I have some files I want to post download links for on Basic Pages. The files are ePUBs and PRCs (Kindle format epubs).
I can set the link, I can upload files and the link works - sort of.
When I use IE to browse to the site and click on the link, I get a download box for both the PRC and the ePUB.
When I use FireFox, the PRC file opens a download box, but the ePUB opens the file itself and displays it on screen. Which is a bit of a bugger, since I can't know which browser people will be using.
Is there somewhere I can set or force the files to go to download rather than open? I took a look at the 'File Force Download' module, but I blush to say I couldn't work out how to make it work :-(.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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vm commented

http://drupal.org/project/download_file is straight forward:

Installation

1.Copy the download_file folder to the modules folder in your installation.
2.Enable the module using Administration -> Modules (/admin/modules).
3.Configure user permissions in Administration -> People, click on the Permissions tab (admin/people/permissions), go to DownloadFile module part and "Access direct download file".
4.Manage teaser and full node display settings at Administration -> Structure -> Content types -> "your type" -> manage display (admin/structure/types/manage/"your type"/display).
5.Choose a formatter to apply to files or images in that field. Four new formatters "Direct download file" appear in the select list.
6.Configure the format of the link accessible at Administration -> Configuration -> Media -> Download file (/admin/config/media/download-file).

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graeme smith commented

My thanks indeed! That seems to do the job nicely :-).

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