On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:13:00 -0800 (PST), Harold Harvey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> how can apache be configured so that it could be
> used to view the files uploaded by my students (im a
> teacher, can u believe that?) using ftp in their own
> accounts?
1. where are those files located? on the user's
public_html directory? or are you going to read them
from anywhere in the user's home directory. i suggest
the second. that way, the students can keep private
files (e.g., mail directories, etc) private and any
public files go into their public_html directory.
2. users will probably forget to make the files in public_html
rx for the apache user (or rwxr-xr-x if apache runs
as nobody), so you can set up a cron job that goes
through the home directory and sets permissons for
all public_html directories to rwxr-xr-x so apache can
read it, or, if apache runs as user apache or www or
something else, you can chown the public_html
directories so apache can read them, e.g.,
#!/bin/bash
cd /home
for user in *
do
if [ -d $user ]
then
if [ -d $user/public_html ]
then
chown -R $user.apache $user/public_html
chmod -R u+rwx,g+rx $user/public_html
fi
fi
done
and then you run that as a cron job as root. NOTE:
i didn't test that. test it (but echo the chown and chmod,
so they don't actually get executed, just displays what
it would do) first.
tiger
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