[Server-devel] Public folders

[Andra DuPont]

Tim,
I am also looking for a way to have a digital library of .pdf files etc.
that can be accessed by any XO on an XS server. I have tried the
approach you outlined, but when I use Browse to go to
http://schoolserver/public it is not found. The server responds:

The requested URL /public was not found on this server.

My server domain is asilong.org, so my actual URL is
http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public
(this is as it should be.... right?)

I have tried going to schoolserver/library/public but it is not found either.

In terminal, I can go to the directory /library/public and my documents
are in the directory.

I doubled checked the xs-library-public.conf file in
the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory for typos but couldn't find any.

Any guess as to why I can't get to the files from Browse?

Thanks,
Andy

On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Tim Moody wrote:

> I created a directory public under /library into which I copied a few pdfs.
> 
> I created a file xs-library-public.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d which contains
> 
> Alias /public/ "/library/public"
> <Directory /library/public>
>  Order allow,deny
>  Allow from all
>  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>  AllowOverride None
> </Directory>
> 
> After service httpd restart I get an index of the pdfs from 
> http://schoolserver/public
> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 06:41:51 +1000
>> From: "David Leeming" <david at leeming-consulting.com>
>> Subject: [Server-devel] Public folders
>> To: "'XS Devel'" <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>
>> Message-ID: <000001cad1db$c2141720$463c4560$@com>
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>> 
>> Using the XS installed with default settings.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have been making folders public in /var/www/html and am able to view sub
>> folders to be listed. I.e. if there is no specific html file, the whole
>> contents of the folder appear in the browser. Fine that is what I want.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> However, when copying content into that folder I rapidly run out of space.
>> It seems that the main disk space is in an another partition where the
>> folder /library is located. This makes sense (i.e. to have a lot of room 
>> in
>> the library...)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Therefore, I copied my public content into sub folders under the directory
>> /library and made the whole of /library public using the html.conf file 
>> with
>> Aliases pointing to my specific subfolders.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> However, under /library it won't allow contents of subfolders to be listed
>> (unless there is an index file in which case it opens that by default, but 
>> I
>> want the folder contents listed in some cases.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Help?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> David Leeming
>> 
> 
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