Uploading fillable PDF form to the web

I have created a fillable PDF form in Acrobat 9, which opens fine as a fillable PDF from my desktop.  I also uploaded it to our website but when i open it up from the web; it is no longer fillable.  Can you tell me how to fix this?
Thanks
Melissa

That really depends on how a user (client) machine is set up, as opposed to something you can do on the web server. For example, the user can configure Acrobat/Reader so that it does not open in their browser, but rather directly in Acrobat/Reader. Or they can set things up so that PDFs are always downloaded and not automatically opened in Acrobat/Reader. You could provide instructions for downloading the PDF on the page that has the link to your form.

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