[Server-devel] Public folders

[Andra DuPont]

On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Tim Moody wrote:

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

Yes I restarted. configtest says -  Syntax OK
> 
> 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?

Yes I'm on 0.6

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

I'll check

> 
> 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?

What is the easiest way to check the permissions?
> 
> Can you paste the contents of xs-library-public.conf into an email.

Quickest way I could think of was to show you a screen shot.

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> ----- 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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