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Sep 12.2016

Hi,

I have a link on my page to a .mp4 video. I uploaded the video to my server, as it seemed quite large. I placed the video in the same directory as my index.asp page. But for some reason, I keep getting the “page cannot be found” error when I click on the link/image. I can see it on the server when I open my Filezilla FTP software, and I have tried multiple things to make it work with no success. Even when I type the path by itself in the URL bar nothing appears. Any suggestions? This is a Dreamweaver CS4 site I did some time ago.

Here is the web page. The link is the 50th Anniversary image at the bottom of the page:

[url]http://www.oaknoll.com/[/url]

I took a screen image of the server directory with the two files in it, but can’t figure out how to load it into this post…

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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@Kevin2Sep 12.2016 — Change:

<a href="http://www.oaknoll.com/OaknollTVShowProof.mp4/" />

To:

<a href="http://www.oaknoll.com/OaknollTVShowProof.mp4">

EDIT:

OK, that still doesn't load but make that change anyway. Are you sure about the filename spelling/capitalization?
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@saraneeauthorSep 12.2016 — Yes, the file name on the server is the same as in the Web Page. I took the spaces out of the original mp4 file thinking that might be posing a problem. But still no luck.
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@Kevin2Sep 12.2016 — After a bit of searching I found your [B]cross-post over at Sitepoint[/B] where you posted a screenshot of your files. "Quite large" doesn't even begin to describe the size of that video. At almost 400 [B][I]MEGA[/I][/B]bytes "gigantic" comes closer. But it got me to thinking about server limits and hosting service limits.

Turns out, [B]via this search[/B], that there are limits. [B]According to this article[/B], IIS has a 28.6Mb limit by default.
maxAllowedContentLength

[...]

The default value is 30000000, which is approximately 28.6MB.[/quote]
When it gets a request for a file larger than that it throws a 404. If you have access to the settings that limit is changeable and that article shows you how.
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@saraneeauthorSep 12.2016 — Thanks Kevin,

I hadn't thought about the size. I'll look into that.

Saranee
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@DomnickOct 06.2016 — You need to use comments and frame tag for locate video and set path for that to particular video.
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