Need help with attributes please

[loaner]

I have a brand new store just set up. Most recent version of Zen. The person that set everything up for me just had a baby, and everything is working except I'm getting red lights instead of green lights when I link my attributes for my downloads. She said before she had her baby that she thought it was all set up like her store so it should all work, but I need to get stuff loaded in my store for our grand opening and she is in the hospital and I've read through what I can and it is all over my head. I've used zen stores and know how to link it all up from another store I sell at, so I think I must have my folder in the wrong part of my FTP or I have the path wrong or something minor, but I can't figure out what it is.

On my FTP (HostMonster) I have a /downloads folder in the main directory and I have my designer folder inside that one. When I try to link my attributes, I'm typing my designerfolernumber/linkname.zip exactly the way it is on the FTP but the light is red. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or if I need to move that designer folder out of the downloads folder? Any help for dummies would be greatly appreciated.

[Ajeh]

The Download directory should be called:
/download

without the S on the end ...

[loaner]

That's the way I had it first, and it wasn't working then, so I read something that said downloads, so I changed it, but it isn't working either way.

[loaner]

Should that download folder be in the main directory or in another one of the folders?

[Ajeh]

It should be on the same level as the:
/includes
/pub
/download

[loaner]

I see a /includes in two different folders, in the /admin folder (that we renamed so it isn't called admin anymore) and in the /store folder. I don't see a /pub folder anywhere. Sorry I'm such a pain.

[Ajeh]

You should have:
/your_admin_dir
/your_admin_dir/includes
/download
/includes
/pub

and the rest of the folders ...

[lauriesscraps]

It should be on the same level as the:
/includes
/pub
/download

I changed the configure files for her and changed them to direct the downloads to the root directory, above the public_html file... if that makes sense. I had trouble getting mine to work when I did it as well. I ended up having to do it differently. So I did it the way it directed in the tutorial and then just did it the same way as mine.

This is how I have hers set up:

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', '/home/username/');

So now when they add an attribute to a product they specify the folder name then the file name in the attribute field like this:

download/file_name.zip

Will this not work for her? This is how I set it up on mine and it works fine. She also is planning on adding separate manufacturers later with their own admin profiles and their own download files.

[Ajeh]

Did you do both configure.php files?

/includes/configure.php
/your_admin_dir/includes/configure.php

[lauriesscraps]

Yes, I did both files. Both files say this:

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', '/home/username/');