I want to set up an upload site - HTTPS upload site

der.hans PLUGd at LuftHans.com
Fri Apr 27 16:36:49 MST 2007


Am 27. Apr, 2007 schwätzte Bryan O'Neal so:

> Wow webdev does seem easy! But using .htaccess files gives me a ...
> /webdav/.htaccess: DAV not allowed here

Make sure you allow the appropriate overrides.

Make sure you compartmentalize as appropriate to keep customer A from
getting info about customer B.

CMSen like drupal and joomla have upload modules. Somewhat overboard,
though.

There are also standalone projects or wikis that might be lightweight and
do what you need.

> The user side is my stock error:
> Internal Server Error
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
> unable to complete your request.
> Please contact the server administrator, Bryan.ONeal at Cornerstonehome.com

And what did you tell yourself?  ;-)

ciao,

der.hans

> and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might
> have done that may have caused the error.
> More information about this error may be available in the server error
> log.
> Apache/2.0.55 DAV/2 Server at projects.cornerstonehome.com Port 80
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Kurt
> Granroth
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:48 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Cc: Arizona State University Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: I want to set up an upload site - HTTPS upload site
>
> Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>>
>> I have, on occasion, the need for people outside of our organization
>> to send us large files, is their a way to set up a secure upload site
>> using Apache?  If so, could some one point me to a how-to?  I can use
>> windows or linux base apache, but would prefer not to have to deal
>> with learning PHP or Python from scratch if I can help it (though I
>> suppose I will have to learn one eventually).
>>
> Webdav would work great in this case.  Windows users can access it via
> the "web folders" support in XP and on and Linux users can access it via
> any number of webdav tools (including the built-in webdav IO slave in
> KDE... try 'webdavs://host/' in Konqueror).
>
> There are actually quite a few decent HOWTOs on setting up WebDAV with
> SSL.  Here's one that is RH9 centered but with lessons that carry over
> for all distros:
>
> http://www.twilight-systems.com/flacco/mozcal/mozcal-webdav-apache2-rh9.
> html
>
> I have this setup locally for my shared calendars (iCal, KOrganizer,
> Sunbird, and Thunderbird w/ Lightning).  It works great.
>
> Kurt
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