[Server-devel] Public folders

[Tim Moody]

Did you restart the web server with service httpd restart?  What does 
service httpd configtest say?

Yes, http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public should be right, though the 
shorter form worked for me as well.

http://schoolserver/library/public should not work because of the Alias 
statement.

Are you on XS 0.6?

Have you looked for errors in the web server logs in /var/log/httpd?

Are the permissions on /library/public the same as 
/library/xs-activity-server and those on xs-library-public.conf the same as 
xs-activity-server.conf?

Can you paste the contents of xs-library-public.conf into an email.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andra DuPont" <andradupont at gmail.com>
To: "Tim Moody" <timmoody at sympatico.ca>
Cc: <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:08 PM
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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