projecttoday

Okay, I get it. I forgot about that plugin for Under Construction.

Oh, I guess Coming Soon is for Under Construction. I’m going to reactivate it.

Thank you. I restored htaccess and copied testdoc.txt to wp-content/uploads. I’m confused about what you mean by WP interface. Is that the dashboard?

My existing “Under Contruction” appears to be gone.

Can anyone help me with this?

I’m still looking for a solution.

No joy. I changed .htaccess to the above and I tried it in Internet Explorer which I never use so it’s cache should be empty and I still get the same result.

I’m sorry I’m not following your instructions. What do I need to do to this?

# BEGIN exclude directories /download/ and /downloads/ from rewrites
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(downloads|download)($|/) - [L]
# END exclude directories /download/ and /downloads/ from rewrites
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Still no joy. I tried:

<a href="httр://www.cronapacific.com/downloads/testdoc.txt"> Click Here</a>

cronapacific is the website and there is a file called testdoc.txt in /home2/projecttoday/downloads.

You create a new directory downloads in your public root.

Is public root “public_html”?

I do have a page called “download” without the s. So I guess that shouldn’t be a problem.

I change .htaccess to:

# BEGIN exclude directories /download/ and /downloads/ from rewrites
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(downloads|download)($|/) - [L]
# END exclude directories /download/ and /downloads/ from rewrites
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

still not working.

As far as an absolute URL goes, doesn’t httр://www.example.com/downloads/ refer to a page? How would I get a .exe file in there?

What is .htaccess?

This is the current contents of .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I get the same result with a .txt file. The file I tested has read permission for user, group, and world.

Thank you for fixing the post.

These are the permissions of the file:

Read: User, Group, World
Write: User
Execute: User, Group, World
Permission: 7,5,5

Thanks for responding.

The code in my post is marked and always was.

I tried changing it to:

<a href="/SELMS-setup.exe"> Click Here</a>

which produced the same error.

My host provider is HostGator. If this type of file is forbidden by them, wouldn’t I get a message saying so?