HTML: Download link "Failed to load PDF" - html

I am trying to allow my webpage to host pdf to be downloaded from my server. When you click the link, it downloads a file, but the file it downloads does not open. In Adobe it says "it is either not a supported file type or the file has been damaged". In chrome it says the file failed to load.
I know the file is not corrupted because I can open the file just fine in WINSCP (FTP client). Online the code seems very simple yet it is not working for me.
<form class="form-horizontal" style="margin-top:15px;">
<div class="form-group">
<a href ="/documents/Cow.pdf" download>Download</a>
</div>
</form>
The cow.pdf is stored in a folder named documents. The document folder is saved in a folder named template, where all my other HTML pages are saved.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you

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