way2evil
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Great River, NY
 ·Verizon FIOS
| why do i get this error
i am trying to put a dmg file on my server at dreamhost. when i go to download it i get this error
Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
The file is there and I can view and download it through FTP, but not HTTP. Why not? |
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GILXA1226
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join:2000-12-29
London, OH
clubs:
| Did you put the file in a directory that the webserver can read? If so, make sure the permissions are such that the webserver can read the file.
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We don't give a d@mn for the whole state of Michigan... we're from OHIO! O!H! ... I!O! |
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way2evil
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Great River, NY | i set permissions of everything to 777 and still the same error |
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state
relax, it's only pandemonium
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Hampton, VA
clubs:  | Where is the file located in the directory structure? Sounds like it may be below the webserver document root. Is there something like a public_html directory when you ftp to the server? |
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way2evil
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Great River, NY | no idea what you mean, the folder this file is in has several other files in it that are all accessible through http. there are 4 dmg files about 3gigs each, these are the only ones that give me a problem like this |
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GILXA1226
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London, OH
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edit:
April 11th, @11:09AM
| reply to way2evil
I agree with state  , where is the file actually located. Also, don't make the file 777, make it 666 at most. 777 could potentially allow someone to try and execute the file.
What type of file is it? |
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rjackson
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Ringgold, GA
clubs: | reply to way2evil
What do the logs say? |
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way2evil
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Great River, NY | it says file does not exist, then the file name |
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GILXA1226
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| said by way2evil :it says file does not exist, then the file name case sensitive? |
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way2evil
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Great River, NY | nope  i still dont get how it can tell me that the file does not exist even though i am starting at it in my ftp program |
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way2evil
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Great River, NY | reply to GILXA1226
it is a dmg file, four of them |
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KoolMoe
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April 11th, @10:18PM
| Check any 'hotlink protection' the web server may offer settings for. We had an issue with a server running Plesk where we could not access any images directly, and neither could some of our Flash applications, due to this hotlink protection...
edit: also, if it's a Win2003 server, it can be very restrictive about what files it will serve-up if there are not MIME Type entries for those files (seems rather random though).
KM |
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way2evil
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Great River, NY | its a shared host so i cant do that |
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MVS
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| Are there any spaces or punctuation in the filename? If you're typing in the URL, you'll need to encode them. See this page for more information: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding |
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way2evil
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Great River, NY | nope, the file is called dmg1.dmg |
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Rob
In Deo speramus
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Kendall, FL | reply to way2evil
How big is the file? I believe it has to be under 2GB. |
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way2evil
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Great River, NY | why is this? it fixed the problem, thank you, but just curious as to why |
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Rob
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| said by way2evil :why is this? it fixed the problem, thank you, but just curious as to why Was it the file size?
File size limitation of 2GB I believe set on Dreamhost |
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way2evil
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Great River, NY | yes it was the filesize. i split the files into two 1.75gb files and they went through just fine |
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Rob
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·Comcast
·AT&T Southeast
| said by way2evil :yes it was the filesize. i split the files into two 1.75gb files and they went through just fine There's a 2GB file size limit in Apache, but I think it was resolved. But I think in DreamHost, they left it like that. |
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