On 27/09/2014 15:35, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Joel Rees wrote:On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> wrote:List, good afternoon, What package would list members suggest for a small webserver that would enable co-workers to upload files to us?Oh. Well, look at webdav. This is something regularly done with webdav.That's precisely what WebDAV is for - and it has the advantage that client support is pretty widely available (built into Windows, MacOS, readily available for linux). Server support is a bit harder to find. There's an apache module. But it might be easier to simply set up a subversion server - it comes with a built-in WebDAV server: apt-get install subversion plus some configuration.
I don't know anything about WebDAV - I had seen reference to it in the context of shared diaries/appointments, I think, such as corporates use with their MS Outlook/Exchange systems. Both this suggestion of subversion, and another poster's suggestion of using a wiki, are new to me for this application, and I'll check them both out.
Several folk offered various webservers and, though I am sure those will work, apache and lighttpd being two well-known ones, when I looked around for CGI (or perl, apparently) scripts there were plenty of 'free' examples but I've nowhere near enough experience to take scripts off the web (and check that they are secure) for a file upload of work-related files. I didn't find any 'CGI for dummies' sort of sites, either. I'm hoping that subversion or a wiki may solve my need.
And thanks, of course, to everyone who - very strongly, for good reasons - recommended ftp and SSH but my co-workers really are locked down to email, http, and https, and their IT systems are configured to bar installing of arbitrary software. (Apart from that, while they are perfectly competent in their work subjects, they are not in the least technical or geeky.)
regards, Ron