Hello Andre, First, thank you very much for the reply and the effort.
>>This list is a support list for the Apache httpd server, and people here try to accomodate even ultra-beginners with Apache/httpd. I am an ultra-beginner. After doing some google search, I had come to the understanding that there needs to be a program to handle the POST request in the Apache server. But, still wanted to confirm with the experts whether it is possible that Apache can handle it. >>When you are typing "POST" on the command-line, I guess that what you are really running, is the POST program that comes with perl, which by coincidence is also installed on your system. In any case, it is not a program delivered with Apache. I did not have any presumptions that POST comes with Apache. I searched for these in the web on this before posting this query. I happened to stumble over this program and tried it. It gave the same result what we get through a POST request from a client. So, I thought people would be familiar with this program and so posted it. Thanks once again for your help. Regards, prasanth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Original message ---- From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIFdhcm5pZXI= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@httpd.apache.org Sent: 01 Dec 2008 20:52:09 Subject: E�z�!��]File upload to Apache server (POST) Hi. First I think you need to fix your email program, because it is giving some really bizarre stuff in the subject of your emails. Second, I would recommend that you get some basic training about what the HTTP protocol is and does. This list is a support list for the Apache httpd server, and people here try to accomodate even ultra-beginners with Apache/httpd. But it looks like you are not even quite sure about the very basics of the HTTP protocol in general, and I believe that it is not really the purpose of this list to provide such education. To give you an idea : When you are typing "POST" on the command-line, I guess that what you are really running, is the POST program that comes with perl, which by coincidence is also installed on your system. In any case, it is not a program delivered with Apache. Also, a HTTP POST request indicates, not that you want to load a file to the Apache server (that would be a PUT request), but that you are sending the content of a form to the server, expecting something on the server side to process that. But there is nothing in a standard Apache installation that does process that, you have to write or install that separately. It is the same for the DELETE method. It is supported by Apache (being part of the HTTP protocol), but you also need something on the server side to handle it. This looks like it might be a good place to start : http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, First of all, sorry for the long mail. Gist of the mail is to know how to use the POST method for Apache server without installing Tomcat or any third party software. I have a "Server version: Apache/2.0.54" installed in my system. I have configured it to act as a server as well as a proxy server; which means the Apache is working fine. Now I try to do some configuration so that the Apache server will support uploading of files (i.e. POST method). For that I created a folder “public” and the configuration in httpd.conf for the same is as follows: <Directory "/var/www/html/public" AllowOverride None Options None <Limit POST GET HEAD DELETE Order allow,deny Allow from all </Limit </Directory Then “/etc/init.d/httpd restart”. Then POST command is executed to create a new file “NotExists.txt” in "/var/www/html/public": User :$ POST "http://127.0.0.1/public/NotExists.txt"; Reply :$ Please enter content (application/x-www-form-urlencoded) to be POSTed: User :$ helloooooooooooooooo User :$ Ctrl D Reply :$ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN" <html<head <title404 Not Found</title </head<body <h1Not Found</h1 <pThe requested URL /public/hello.txt was not found on this server.</p <hr <addressApache/2.0.54 (Fedora) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80</address </body</html [ “User” is the User Input given by the user. “Reply” is the reply printed out on to the terminal. ] And in case, the POST is done for a file which already exists in the server, the content of the file is given back (i.e., it behaves as if a GET request is sent!). Also, would like to know if the DELETE method is supported by Apache. If so, what should be the configuration. Regards, prasanth. 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