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Upload a PDF Ebook Report to Your Hostgator Server

By on August 13, 2010

Knowing how to upload a PDF file, a report, or even a full ebook to your server is a “must know” task when it comes to building websites. We all know you need to feed your website visitors with new information to keep them interested and PDF files seem a great way to do this. It is all the rage.

How to upload a pdf file to a Hostgator web server?

1.  Sign in to your Hostgator account.
2.  Scroll down to the Files section.

3.  Click on the File Manager icon.

4. A file directory box will appear.

5.  Select which domain you want to install the pdf on. If you only have one domain name on this server you will not need to choose.

6.  After selecting the correct domain press go. See the screen shot below.

upload a pdf file to the server

7.  You will be taken to the root directory of your website.

8.  Now you can press on New Folder to make a folder to put the PDF file in.

9. Double click on the new folder to enter it.

10.  Now click on the upload icon.

11.  Another window will open. Find your file and upload it.

upload pdf

Once you have uploaded your PDF file to your Hostgator server you will need to know the file path so you can make a link for website visitors to click on. The path or link will be the domain name, then the folder you made, and finally the file name. It will look something like this: http://www.tips4pc.com/foldername/filename.pdf

To see more information watch the video tutorial below.

Why would you need to upload a PDF file to your Hostgator Web server?

If you do not know this already, most free giveaway reports and ebooks are in PDF format. If you intend to transfer these files to your websites visitors you need to store them on the internet and therefore we need to upload it to a server.

About mitz

My name is Milica Pantic but everyone calls me Mitz. I am addicted to internet marketing and making money online. Who wouldn't want to live that life? I started out with one website as a hobby and now have over 20. Building websites and making money online is not that hard. You have to actually take action to make money...that is the biggest hurdle! :)

9 Comments

  1. Brenda Macalino

    May 24, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    Hi Mitz thanks for the information you share in here this is very helpful and specially to me I need to learned this..
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  2. Naomi Delatte

    October 10, 2011 at 11:23 pm

    Thank you for this really useful information. Basic stuff I know but so important. Many newbies struggle with this kind of thing but your explanation is excellent.

    Thanks again.
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  3. Allan

    May 28, 2011 at 12:01 pm

    Great article Mitz. It’s been over 10years since I used to do this using Dreamweaver.
    Now I use WordPress I had no idea how it was done. Thanks heaps for sharing you made it an easy task to accomplish.

    Reply

  4. George

    January 7, 2011 at 5:20 am

    Thanks for sound explanation so much! everything is clear and useful, I had a question though: This one was for free links, but if I want to make a clickable link or button on my sales page to sell stuff, I need to direct it to my Paypal buying page first and then after payment is processed, to take them to my “thank you” page with downloadable link on it. Could you share how to do this? Thanks in advance,

    respectfully,m
    George G.

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  5. ilham

    October 29, 2010 at 6:16 pm

    hi
    thanks for sharing video File upload,It’s really useful.Also want ask you.Before i upload File should i publish my site?

    Thank you

    Reply

    • mitz

      October 29, 2010 at 8:27 pm

      You do not have to publish your website..You can just store the pdf there until you are ready.

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  6. Vijayraj Reddy

    October 21, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    i used your method, thx for sharing..
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  7. Wealth Maker

    September 13, 2010 at 1:21 am

    yes thanks alot for this,ive been struggling,thats the pdf in the right place,its just the rest of the site now lol

    Reply

  8. Stacey

    August 29, 2010 at 1:49 am

    Thanks for the information. I assumed it would be more difficult to upload a PDF onto my server than it actually is.
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