I am trying to setup a small web file server. I have download some software and I am trying to learn how to configure it to download files when I click the link rather than attempt to open them in my browser
My files are stored in a different directory than my web directory. So I made a symlink and an alias and it seems to work! But I am not sure what I have to do from here So I found .htaccess info saying it can force files to download. So I did this:
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|zip|avi|mkv|mp4)$" >
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header add Content-Disposition "attachment"
</FilesMatch>
The issue is it does not work. Would this work in the symlink directory? I have tried placing it my index and in the symlink folder. It doesn't work.
One other thing is I can right click a link on my website and click "save link as" and this lets me download the file. However if I click "copy link address" and paste it into my download manager it does not work. Is there a way to fix this?
