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I am not happy with the private share portion of this article. |
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Introduction
I often find I need to quickly share files with the general public or selected friends. As such I have setup Online Shares with Apache. Continuing our example I will put put a public and private share on krypton as follows,
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Assuming you are logged in as a Staff User created in the Setup Ubuntu Linux Base Server,
Shared - Public Share Folder
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cd /home/www.krypton.com sudo mkdir shared # Browseable folder to drop content to share with others sudo mkdir shared.private # Browser password protected folder to drop content to share with others via .htaccess sudo mkdir keys # Place to store keys for protected folder cd /home sudo chown -R serveradmin:wgkryptonian ./www.krypton.com/shared/ sudo chmod -R 775 www.krypton.com/shared/ # Only svradm and users in the kryptonian group can manage. Apache(other's) still need to be able to read and browse. |
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sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload |
shared.private - Private Folders
kalel wants to have a private place to store his documents that can only be access by accounts he sets up.
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cd /home/www.krypton.com/shared.private mkdir kalel chmod 750 kalel cd /home/www.krypton.com/shared.private mkdir keys cd keys # Create the initial password file with the first user being kalel htpasswd -c ./kalel-www.krypton.com.shared.private kalel New password: Re-type new password: # Create addition accounts. Notice NO "-c" htpasswd .htpasswdkalel-www.krypton.com.shared.private cclark |
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One caveat, this also prevents Apache's Index program from viewing the directory so you must know about the directory or put a link to the directory. Consider using .htaccess definition one level higher, but then it's easy to break.... hmmmm... |
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Reload the configuration file,
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sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload |
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