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drmkbender
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Joined: 22 Jun 2007
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 Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:45 am Post subject: Video Hosting question.... |
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Im sorry if this topic has been posted in the past but I have looked on this forum for the last 2 days and havent found any help. I have also did a google search for my question but couldnt find the answer.
I already have a website created but I have little disk space, they only gave me 5 Gig of space. I want to have a ton of videos on my site and want to host all the video files from my computer and have my website hosted elsewhere since its already made. I bought Yahoo's basic website package and have made a site im happy with, I just need more disk space and no one offers as much space as I want. I already have about 700Gig of video to host.
The problem is I dont know where to go from this point. Like I said, I want to keep the site I already created where it is, I just want to be able to have people click on a button from the webpage and download a file from my computer. Thats it!
I have 0 experience with HTML and 0 experience hosting any kind of server. I can insert code onto my site but I have no idea how to create it.
I have the system and broadband to host it, I just need some advice on how to do it.
My system consists of a dual core Athlon 64 6000, 4 Gigs of DDR2, 1 Terabyte of disk space sataII, 50Meg Up/down Fiber Optic connection. OS is WinXP Pro SP2.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Once again, sorry if this is a repost. |
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Moxxnixx
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Joined: 21 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:36 am Post subject: |
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I see you already have Apache installed on your computer. "It works!"
What you need to do is learn html and how to create links on your webspace that point to the video
files on your home server.
Normally, you would put a link on your web space to point to your home server like this... | Code: | | <a href="http://yourhomeserveraddress/videofile.mpg">Click here to download video</a> |
Other than that, we can't help. You're asking for help for a server that is not supported on these forums.
This forum is for Abyss Web Server support and it would be considered ethically wrong for us to offer
assistance for a server that is a competitor. Install Abyss Web Server and we will be happy to help you
out in every way possible.
I'm not trying to frighten you away. Abyss is a great web server. It's much easier to setup and maintain
than Apache. You would be very pleased with how easy it is. Please reconsider your choice of server. |
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drmkbender
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Joined: 22 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:32 am Post subject: Thanks for replying |
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I just installed Apache tonight to try and accomplish the "Video Hosting". I do have Abyss installed and working, well I can see the Index file and have port forwarding set correctly on my router since others can see the index page from different computers.
I was asking for help with the Abyss server, I just tried Apache to see if I would have any luck with that.
I know I would have to put the video files in the htdocs folder but not sure where to go from there. Well I think I would put the video files in the htdocs folder, lol. |
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Moxxnixx
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:03 am Post subject: Re: Thanks for replying |
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| drmkbender wrote: | | I know I would have to put the video files in the htdocs folder but not sure where to go from there. Well I think I would put the video files in the htdocs folder, lol. |
Yes, by default, all files should go into your htdocs folder. You can also specify other locations
on your server pc to host your files, but let's just stick with the basics right now.
You just need to place the code I posted to your site and it should work. Learning some basic
html will help you greatly. You can also allow your visitors to see all the files on the server.
Abyss does allow standard directory listing. You just need to make sure it's turned on.
If you have as many videos as you say you do, then a directory script might be the ticket.
These types of scripts will automatically organize your files and put them in an orderly table
for your visitors to browse. Most scripts generally require you to install PHP or Perl for them
to work, though. But, they make your directory look better because most are customizable. |
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drmkbender
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Joined: 22 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject: Thanks, |
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I appreciate the help and will have Abyss up and running soon. I help run an online PC gaming clan and have a TON of In-Game movies. Alot are 800Meg+ in size so I filled up that 5Gig pretty quick.
I planned on running PHP anyway so I could use the SSI features.
I will definitely go and learn some html.
Thanks for the tips and help! |
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