Your anonymous FTP site is completely different from your
website. When people FTP to your domain anonymously, they will see the following
directories:
bin/ dev/ etc/ incoming/ lib/ pub/
"pub" is where you
should put all your anonymously accessible files
"incoming" is for
the anonymous users to upload files to
For security the following applies:
* Only the incoming directory can be written to
anonymously
* Subdirectories are not creatable
* The incoming directory is not readable by people dropping
files there
You are responsible for any "pirated" software
uploaded by the anonymous users. The anonymous FTP sites will be periodically monitored
for any abuses. You can ignore the other directories.
To access the anonymous FTP site via the web, use the
following address:
ftp://yourdomain.com/pub/
Your HTML to download a file called mirc511s.exe
from a webpage would look like this:
<A
HREF="ftp://yourdomain.com/pub/mirc511s.exe">Download Mirc Now</A>
You should tell your visitors that they may need to
right-click on the link if they are PC users, or if they use a Macintosh, they need to
hold down the mouse button on the link, then select the appropriate option from the Pop-up
menu.
Please note, it's possible during peak hours to
receive a "too many anonymous users error". We must restrict the number of
simultaneous anonymous users to keep the webserver and normal FTP performance within
normal limits. If you receive this error often you may want to put your downloadable files
in your main web directory and link to them with an http call:
Example:
http://yourdomain.com/files.zip
This assumes the zip files are in the main web directory.
Note - if
your customer experiences slow download performance, it's most likely a problem on the
Internet. We maintain a large margin of available bandwidth so bottlenecks never occur
within our network. Please feel free to send an inquiry to be sure all the servers are
operating properly. If you include their ISP's IP#, we will run traceroutes to see where
the delays are occurring.
