Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-25 Thread Chris Hellyar
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 09:00, CF wrote: > > This'll work fine for an internal server, as the fud that Frontpage > > leaves lying around will not be exposed to the net... > > Yes - I did this at school for the last couple years... but > occasionally students would mess with another user's pages...

Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-25 Thread Mike Beattie
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:11:02PM +1200, Ross Drummond wrote: > If a user 'guy' has such a directory the content can be served by using > the following url format > > http://domain/~guy -note the umulat. It's not an "umulat" (umlaut?), it's a tilde. (Umlauts are diacritic marks above vowe

Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-24 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 09:13, Nick Rout wrote: > What about giving each user their own space in ~user/public_html (which > will appear on the net as http://server/~user/ ) and then share each > user's home dir with samba, they can play with their own pages, but > no-one elses? Yeah - I'm gonna do s

Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-24 Thread Nick Rout
What about giving each user their own space in ~user/public_html (which will appear on the net as http://server/~user/ ) and then share each user's home dir with samba, they can play with their own pages, but no-one elses? or am i barking up the wrong perennial woody plant having a main trunk and

Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-24 Thread CF
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 00:36, Chris Hellyar wrote: > If the client machines are running windows, put samba on the box and let > users mount /var/www/html (or /www ,whatever takes your fancy) directly > and edit the pages using frontpage without having the hassle of > upload/download. > > This'll

Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-22 Thread Guy Steven
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Chris Hellyar wrote: > If the client machines are running windows, put samba on the box and let > users mount /var/www/html (or /www ,whatever takes your fancy) directly > and edit the pages using frontpage without having the hassle of > upload/download. Hadn't thought of

Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-22 Thread Chris Hellyar
If the client machines are running windows, put samba on the box and let users mount /var/www/html (or /www ,whatever takes your fancy) directly and edit the pages using frontpage without having the hassle of upload/download. This'll work fine for an internal server, as the fud that Frontpage le

Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-22 Thread Robert Fisher
Oops! I did not read the question well did I? On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:11, Ross Drummond wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:22, you wrote: > > What I am about to describe is not the solution you requested but is an easy > solution to configure if you wish to allow users to set up their own web > p

Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-22 Thread Ross Drummond
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:22, you wrote: What I am about to describe is not the solution you requested but is an easy solution to configure if you wish to allow users to set up their own web pages. Go to you /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf and check for the following directive. -

Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-21 Thread Robert Fisher
I use Mozilla Composer to create my site and gFTP or Sitecopy to upload it:- Sitecopy man page... http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/cygwin/man-sitecopy.html#lbAB .sitecopyrc. site mysite server fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz username *** password *** local /home/robert/webpage_new

uploading web pages

2003-08-21 Thread Guy Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am setting up an internal web server on a rh8 machine. Is there a recommended way to build a site, in terms of: whether pages are stored in var/www/html; whether pages are stored elsewhere, with symbolic links the manner in which files are uploaded; ie do I create a user whose home directory is