download - Donwload a file using HTML <a> attribute

Question

I am trying to let users download a zipped file from my web server but with any success. I think there is somenthing wrong in the directory arrangement.

In detail:

192.xxx.xxx.xxx
|
Folder
 |
 mainscript.py
 templates
       |
       home.html
       firstpage.html
 example
      |
      file.to.be.downloaded.zip

In firstpage.html I would like to insert a 'download' button to let users download the 'file.to.be.downloaded.zip' placed in the example folder but I have no clue on how to do it because the following tries do not download the desired file.

<a href="Folder/examples/file.to.be.downloaded.zip" download>Download an input example</a> 

<a href="examples/file.to.be.downloaded.zip" download>Download an input example</a>

while if I load it in my Google Drive and changing the href link with the G drive public one, it works.

Any clues?

Thank you in advace.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65884043/donwload-a-file-using-html-a-attribute

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