How do I provide files for download?

Question

I have written a post and would like to provide a file as attachment for download.

So far I have

• created a link [Download files][download-file]
• declared the link as [download-file]: download.zip
• put download.zip in the _posts folder

However, the file does not get copied to the correct location.

I have

• read about data files
• read about directory structure
• read about static files, which IMHO was the closest hit. Unfortunately, no example is provided.

So neither page gave me an answer on how to provide files for download.

I don't know where to put static files in the directory structure. Once I knew that, it seems I could use some Liquid like {{ site.static_files }}, but even then I'd still need to specify a file name.

Answer 1

Here is my solution. I have a "myname".github.io, I created a folder /download inside the myname.github.io and inside this download folder I uploaded the files I want to include in my posts.

In the single post then I created the following code:

some text and [here is possible to download the file in PDF][1]  [1]:{{ site.url }}/download/file.pdf