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. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Disclaimer: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
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