Simple file server that works for MS Windows users as well - ideas?

[David Fletcher]

On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 16:29 +0100, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
> or if you have a web server, put your file there, and send a link

As with most things I'm not an expert on this but I've done exactly the
same thing by making a directory in the same place as the index.html
file, then copying the file into that directory. As far as I know if
the directory is not mentioned in your html code you can't detect it
from outside. Sorry if I'm incorrect about this.

Send them the link into that directory and they should be able to use
something like the old GetRight shareware downloader to get it.
Shouldn't even need a domain name as far as I know, just an apache
install. https://whatismyipaddress.com/ should reveal your outside IP
address which may be dynamic but will be the same for plenty long
enough for them to do the download.

Something like http://yourIPaddress/directoryname/filename should do
the trick I think.

Dave