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,
www.krypton.com/shared/ - accessible by everyone
www.krypton.com/shared.private/ - only accessible by specific people
Also if possible, this setup should allow the website admins to do the setup without the need for the server admin to come in and perform root actions.
Assuming you are logged in as a Staff User created in the Setup Ubuntu Linux Base Server,