Re: [newbie] 2 questions about web server
At 10:45 PM 07/31/2001 -0400, Jon Doe wrote: 1. How do I get password protected site going? I know I need htaccess and htpasswd files? How do I make them and where do I put them? You need three files... These are .htaccess (in the directory you wish to protect, which also protects all subdirectories off of that directory), htpasswd and htgroup (which should be in /var/www). They should look like: .htaccess deny from all AuthName WhateverYouWant AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /var/www/htpasswd AuthGroupFile /var/www/htgroup require group groupname require user username1, username2, etc satisfy any htgroup groupname: username1, username2, etc The htpasswd file is generated by /usr/bin/htpasswd. To create it, do 'htpasswd -c htpasswd username1' (from /var/www, and without the quotes). This will create the file, and add username1 to it. 2. I would like people to be able to upload files to my computer. How do I go about that? This depends on whether you want an ftp upload, or a web upload. If you want an ftp upload, you can setup an anonymous ftp server with an incoming directory. For a web upload, you'll have to do a search somewhere like freshmeat.net to see if any web upload software is available (either perl or php). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
RE: [newbie] 2 questions about web server
don't know if this has been answered yet.. if you want to upload files to your linux box... get a browser, point it at a search engine, and try typing upload, or uploader or any other variations, there are alot of perl cgi scripts that do just that, all the newer ones are based on CGI.pm the older ones are probably cgi-lib.pl horses for courses. as for the .htaccess and ptpasswd files, put them in the highest directory you want to protect, (say for example that you want to protect /var/www/html/secured and every directory below it... then thats where you put the files.. then you need to run the actual file that creates the file, here is an exerpt of the user instructions from one of mine. type: htpasswd manager.access your_user_name #where manager.access is the file that you want to contain the username/passwords The server should respond with... Adding user your_user_name New password: (you'll type your password) Re-type new password: (you'll type it again :-)) Thats all there is to it,, IF your apache is setup to use them. (you might need to configure that.) give it a shot rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Doe Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2001 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 2 questions about web server 1. How do I get password protected site going? I know I need htaccess and htpasswd files? How do I make them and where do I put them? 2. I would like people to be able to upload files to my computer. How do I go about that?
[newbie] 2 questions about web server
1. How do I get password protected site going? I know I need htaccess and htpasswd files? How do I make them and where do I put them? 2. I would like people to be able to upload files to my computer. How do I go about that?
