[Server-devel] Public folders

[Andra DuPont]

On Apr 6, 2010, at 4:50 PM, David Leeming wrote:

> Andra,
> 
> Have you added a new conf file, to declare the folders public?

Yes, I followed Tim's note and named my conf file xs-library-public.conf
as I noted in my last email.

I don't think the name of the conf file matters, as any .conf file placed
in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory gets appended to the main configuration.

> 
> Use nano or other text editer to create a file html.conf in
> /etc/httpd/conf.d/ and add the below, with a new entry for each alias. It's
> case sensitive remember. 
> 
> Then the below should be available at http://schoolserver/MyFolders

What do you mean by "the below should be available"? Do you mean
the files in the /library/public directory should be availalble (that is
what I was expecting, but as I mentioned, my browser can't find it.)

I am wondering if I have to do something to tell the server where the
starting level is, because it does not seem to be going to /library/public,
but to some other directory.

> 
> Alias /MyFolders /library/public
> <Directory /library/public>
>  Order allow,deny
>  Allow from all
>  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>  AllowOverride None
> </Directory>
> 
> David Leeming
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: server-devel-bounces at lists.laptop.org
> [mailto:server-devel-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Andra DuPont
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 2010 6:09 a.m.
> To: Tim Moody
> Cc: server-devel at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders
> 
> 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>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>> 
>>> 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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