Professional Documents
Culture Documents
A. Introduction
You might be wondering, “How can I offer files to download off of my website?” With
Joomla!, it is possible to do this using an included feature called Media Manager. Files might
include PDFs, word documents, or just pictures.
The nice part about storing your documents and files through the Media Manager is
that Joomla! takes care of uploading everything for you. This means that if you want to insert
an image or a file link into one of your content pages, it doesn't require as much work as
using FTP (file transfer protocol) to put the files on your web server.
B. Joomla! Configuration
First off, you have to make sure that your Joomla! website is setup so that it can accept the
files that you want to upload.
1. Go to your Administrator page and log in. Then go to the menu bar, select 'Site' and
then press 'Global Configuration' from the list.
2. Click on the 'System' tab. Then find the area titled 'Media Settings'. This is where all of
the Media Manager settings are held.
3. Figure out what files you'll need to upload, and then make sure that their file extension
is included in the 'Legal Extensions' list. Each file extension is separated by a comma.
2. You will see a page that lists all the different files that are already in the Media
Manager.
3. At the top of the area titled 'Files', there is a textbox for adding our own folder. Type in
a name for your folder (mine will be named “documents”) and then press 'Create
Folder'.
4. Now, click on the folder you just created in the center area. There should be nothing in
this folder.
6. A dialog box will appear. Navigate to the file on your computer that you want to upload
(As an example, the file will be called 'test.pdf').
2. Select the article that you would like to put the file link in, or create a new article by
pressing 'New' on the toolbar.
3. Once you are in the editor, select the text you want to use for the link to the file. Press
the 'Insert/Edit Link' button indicated by a chain in the TinyMCE editor toolbox.
5. The only other thing you might need to change is the 'Target' textbox. This specifies
where you want the link to open up.
6. Press the 'Insert' button to put it on the article page.
7. Press 'Save' on the toolbar to save the article.
8. Test the link on your site to make sure everything is working fine.
You've managed to add a link to an article pointing to a file in the Media Manager.
Congratulations, now you can serve up all sorts of files to visitors of your website using
Joomla!