External link to PDF

[muah]

I have two problems going on and it's causing me huge headaches and stress! Here they are, if any of you folks feel like contributing.

First problem. On my 1.38 verion of the site, I had a link to a pdf which helped people choose the right product. They are viewing on Zen. They see a link on Zen, click it and it references a PDF stored in the cart/images folder. The pdf opens on the screen. After the upgrade, none of these links to PDF's work any longer. I get a screen that says forbidden and the PDF never opens for the customer. What changed? The PDF is in tact. The html on the site is the same as on the old site. The permissions on the folder are allowing it to be red. What changed?

Second problem, USPS issue - sorted in another thread.

Any takers?

Thanks

[frank18]

...........On my 1.38 verion of the site, I had a link to a pdf which helped people choose the right product. They are viewing on Zen. They see a link on Zen, click it and it references a PDF stored in the cart/images folder. The pdf opens on the screen. After the upgrade, none of these links to PDF's work any longer. I get a screen that says forbidden and the PDF never opens for the customer. What changed? The PDF is in tact. The html on the site is the same as on the old site. The permissions on the folder are allowing it to be red. What changed?....

That's because your cart/images folder contains a .htaccess file with a script something like this:

# deny *everything*
<FilesMatch ".*">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

# but now allow just *certain* necessary files:
<FilesMatch ".*\.(jpe?g|JPE?G|gif|GIF|png|PNG|swf|SWF)$" >
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</FilesMatch>

As you can see the pdf extension is not shown and therefore access to pdf files in this folder is not allowed.

You may want to ftp that pdf file into the cart/pub folder. That folder also contains a .htaccess file but it allows access to pdf files. Naturally you will need to change the path from cart/images to cart/pub

Cheers / Frank

[muah]

No kidding...it works. Glad you know what you're doing!! :)
Thanks...