check your file permissions. Must be readable by www-data On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Cai Yizhi <caiyi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Malcolm, > > Thanks for your reply. I put the full path: > > > <a > href="file:///Users/caiyizhi/Dropbox/Programming/Django/genocad_prolog/prolog_compiler/bin/2009-04-28_12- > 02-29_results.txt" target="_blank">Test</a><br/> > > And I click on the link, nothing comes out. I am wondering how to get this > done. > > Thanks, > Patrick > > > Yizhi Cai, GBCB Ph.D Student > Virginia Bioinformatics Institute > Virginia Tech,Blacksburg, VA 24061 > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick > <malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 12:24 -0400, Cai Yizhi wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I am a new comer to Django. I want to create hyper link pointing to a >> > local text file (say ~/a.txt). I am wondering how to do this in >> > Django? >> > >> > I have tried: >> > <a href="file:///~/a.txt" target="_blank">Download</a><br/> >> > >> > But it doesn't work. >> >> That's because "~" doesn't mean anything to the filesystem. It's a >> special character that is interpreted by the shell (well, some shells; >> not all) to mean the current user's home directory. You'll need to put >> in the full path to the user's home directory. Look at things like the >> standard Python module "pwd" if you need assistance doing that. >> >> Regards, >> Malcolm >> >> >> >> > > > > >
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