on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:39:07PM -0700, Mike Egglestone (megglestone@sd57.bc.ca) wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I need some advice on how to manage my web server....
> I work for a school and would like to setup web pages for students....
>
> I have apache installed and proftpd
>
> How would I manage the server so that students could have write access
> to their web folder... for example
>
> jimmy would have this folder as his home page:
> /var/www/students/jimmy
>
> /var/www/students/jimmy/homepage.html would be his first page
>
> Anyway.... if his normal home directory is here:
> /home/jimmy
>
> How do I give him access to write to his web directory via ftp or some
> remote way? If jimmy was on the lan......then I could easily setup a
> samba share to students... and he would have write access only to his
> folder there....but what if he's outside the lan.... at home......and
> wants to update his pages.....?
The directory ~/public_html is made accessible as:
http://server/~user/
...with the appropriate configuration changes in /etc/apache/access.conf
and /etc/apache/srm.conf.
Files in these directories need to be world readable.
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