Media Manager

Getting the URL of files (eg for PDFs)

(The URL is the website address of the file)

This is useful if you want to create a link on a page directly to a PDF, for example to allow people to download a PDF.

  1. Log in to your website
  2. Go to the media manager (Site > Media Manager)
  3. In Joomla 1.5 [Help to determine which version of Joomla you are on]
    • Find the file by clicking through the folders on the left (it may be in the stories folder)
    • Underneath the Files heading is the file path on the web server to that folder. This field varies depending on where you are hosted. In the field you are looking for any of the following:
      • /httpdocs/
      • /public_html/
      • /www/
      • /htdocs/
    • The URL to the file is a combination of your website address, the folder path after /public_html/ and the file name, with one slash only between all three
    • (the http:// is required)
    • By combining all three you get the URL of the file such as http://www.butterflyinternet.com.au/images/stories/food/bread.jpg
  4. In Joomla 1.0:

1.                  Click on the /stories folder and subfolder as required to find the item

2.                  Click on the thumbnail of the file that you want to get the URL of

3.                  The URL of the file is displayed in the Image/URL code

4.                  Copy this link

5.                  You can paste it straight into onto a page of your site to link to it, and then type whatever you like as the link text where it says "Insert your text here"