Uploading file suggestions

[eluser]veledrom[/eluser]
[quote author="louisl" date="1328115136"]Safest bet would be to keep them outside the web root then make a downloader checkout CI's download helper.[/quote]

Hyperlink was going to download those files anyway so, if keeping the files outside of root folder and making them downloadable then this solves my problem.

Why hyperlink doesn't work but download work though?