How hosting files with Apache [ Solved ]

lcoulon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 129

Hello,

I need to host a list of files and let them avalaible from Internet when browsing from htpp://myaddress

For some of them i need to let people anonymous access and some others placed in a restrited area as a login & password will be resquested to access to the files ?

Can anyone explain me how to do, i'm very novice with Apache 2.
The only thing i know is that "htpasswd" needs to be generated ...

Help will be much appreciated.

omnicloud · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 550 Location: California

For the anonymous, just put them into a directory. For the passworded, I recommend you get some type of PHP portal and use MySQL or even a flat database file unless you just want to add a single user and give out the password to everyone. The PHP can create new users on the database , send out the email with a confirmation link if you want, you can add users easily, and it's more secure.

Genone · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 12:25 am Post subject:

no need for a complicated and maybe insecure PHP setup, just use the builtin apache authentication as desribed in http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/auth.html

lcoulon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 129

Thanks Genone.

I have now the var/www/localhost/htdocs secured by logon / password.
( i have created .HTACCESS & .HTPASSWD files )

Then i have put all the files i want to share into var/www/localhost/htdocs folder.
However when browsing the page, i get identification window working fine but next i get this message :

403 Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.0.52 (Gentoo/Linux) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80

I need to get files list on the screen instead of 403 Error ...
I have of course no html files into the folder as i only want to host files for download.

Thanks for help.

Genone · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:25 am Post subject:

Well, you've done something wrong with the config or the file permissions then, hard to say without more information.

lcoulon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 129

Here is attached contents of my .HTACCESS located in /var/www/locahost/htdocs:

Genone · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:24 am Post subject:

looks good at a first glance. One other thing to check: are directory listings actually enabled?

lcoulon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 129

i don't know really as i'm very newbie with Apache, would you please tell me where i should enable this option ?

Genone · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:29 am Post subject:

Being a newbie is no excuse for not looking for docs :wink:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options

lcoulon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 129

I have found that i should have to add something like that :

lcoulon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 129

Can anybody help me regarding that problem ?

Genone · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject:

R0Bzombie · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

put this in your /etc/apache2/conf/commonapache2.conf

lcoulon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 129

Thank you very much R0Bzombie , it works fine !

Would you please tell me what are options needed to be changed in Webmin to get those lines in /etc/apache2/conf/commonapache2.conf

Just to know where finding these settings in Webmin ...

Thanks again for your help!

R0Bzombie · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

lol a friend told me to do this and it worked and now I tell you and it's working

don't ask me how I found this, I didn't found it
I don't even know what is webmin :wink:

lcoulon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 129

No problem, anyway thanks for friend for me !