News!! Putting Files Into Blogger's Source Directory

This article explains the issues, in addition to options, for putting a file into the "root directory" of your Blogger blog.

If yous are using for certain non-Google products to lift your Blog, they volition sometimes say yous to put a file into your root-directory.   They may fifty-fifty say yous to utilisation an FTP  tool to practise this.

Sometimes this happens when a production also gives yous code to install into your blog , This approach is used when the code is written for websites inwards full general rather than specifically to move with Blogger: putting useful files into a house relative to the root directory makes it a lot easier to deed a website from a test-address to the alive one, thus is a mutual approach exterior of Blogger.

Or mayhap the other tool has been designed to verify that yous practise ain the website inwards this way, rather than bespeak yous to alter the website code itself.

How to add together a file to your blog's root directory

The brusk answer for Blogger users is "sorry, yous cannot practise this".

The long answer is however no:  "there is no way to practise this, but meet the residuum of this article for an explanation of why, in addition to some suggested work-arounds."

Why not? Every other website tool lets me practise this.

Posts:  Blogger's tool for managing
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If you're clever, in addition to get got lots of time, yous tin brand a website precisely using a text-editor (eg notpad), a graphics program, in addition to ftp software that lets yous position the files into the correct places on calculator that's connected to the internet.

Tools similar Dreamweaver get got away a lot of the time-consuming work, in addition to some of the demand for cleverness.  But yous however demand to know a lot nearly the meshing to practise things inwards a way that makes a expert website.

Content administration systems brand this easier still: they allow a technically-minded individual practise the nuts-and-bolts move to brand the website, in addition to laissez passer authors / artists / editors / content-creators simpler-to-use tools that allow them position "stuff" (ie content) into the website, without needing to worry nearly the details of how it works.

Blogger is a (very simple) website content-management system, it creates our web-pages for us based on information that nosotros position into for certain places. Administrators tin laid upwards in addition to alter the theme, other people, eg authors merely brand posts.

When nosotros utilisation Blogger, the original way that nosotros alter the information inwards our web-pages is using the Blogger software. 

Some items within posts or gadgets tin move changed using other software, eg Google Docs, provided they were were laid upwards using that other software inwards the showtime place. But - telephone commutation indicate - there is null inwards the way that Blogger is position together that agency nosotros demand to access the base of operations directory. So they don't allow us practise so.    And I doubtfulness that this this volition alter anytime soon.

What to practise instead

The options for getting precisely about this restriction depend on how the file that yous demand to position into your root directory is intended to move used.

Installing code

If yous get got code to install into your blog, in addition to a file to become with it, in addition to then yous precisely demand to

1. Host the file somewhere else (maybe inwards your Picasa-web-album for the blog, if it's a picture)
2. Change the code to indicate to the total path of where yous get got hosted the file, instead of the relative path used inwards the code

For example, hither is the code for a push linking to my blog, with the flick inwards the root directory:

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.Blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="//Logo.png" width="100" /></a></div>

To alter this to utilisation a specific location, I precisely add together a file-path in addition to the file-name of the flick wherever it is hosted.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.Blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Es56vAbWajQwR5fnFHaR_kQesj60VtL50sm2-wVARDa0GfUnXBxZhraRoOoZIhsTM47-CCmEeb-80tBRYz502URi4HGEVXBIM7WMHldudrL6dvc1qdaPr_ggFcaSxdUl7ggN3qFSk3fz/s320/Logo.png" width="100" /></a></div>

TIP: blogger's editor sometimes gets links mixed up, thus it's of import to start the filepath with "http://"

Verifying ownership

If someone wants to utilisation a file's seat to cheque that yous command a website, in addition to then they volition get got code on their ain website that looks for the file inwards your root directory.

You cannot alter this code. And yous cannot house the fie.

So yous demand to ask them for an alternative way to verify, that is suitable for people without root directory access.

 If they don't get got whatever alternatives, displace lobbying for this on their production back upwards forum:  by non having alterantives, they are ensuring that Blogger users, with others, cannot utilisation their service.

If the official answer is however "no", in addition to then yous could also enquire inwards other on-line forums if anyone has flora whatever other work-arounds.

An afterthought: what isn't recommended

I've late seen someone propose inwards a help forum that people with custom domains tin position files into their blog's root directory past times FTP'ing the files into place.

 This may move true, if the service that yous are purchasing from your domain registrar includes file-hosting. But file hosting(*)

1. Isn't necessary for a custom domain used inwards Blogger (since Google hosts our files for us), and
2. Isn't available every bit utilisation of the services when yous purchase a custom-domain through Blogger.

So it's non a full general solution for most Blogger users, though it may move for some.

Initially I was a picayune sceptical of the idea: Blogger doesn't human face to meet whatever files inwards our root directory, thus I was concerned that it mightiness practise foreign things if it flora them there. But on reflection, I shout out upwards in that location is in all probability a depression opportunity of this happening, since the file-location is outside Blogger's control.

(*) To avoid whatever confusion, file hosting in addition to DNS hosting are non the same thing. If yous purchase a custom domain for your spider web log from a registrar without going through Google/Blogger, in addition to then yous practise demand to pay for DNS hosting, but practise non demand to buy file-hosting.

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