Hello,

I've currently set up thttpd on a Redhat 8.0 server. It seems to be working ok.

Is there a way to set up ftp so that all files uploaded automatically get written to a users webpage? If so, how should I do it, or what files should I read documentation for?

Example: I'm joeuser. When I use ftp to upload my files to the Linux box, they should go into /usr/local/www/data/joeuser, instead of the usual place. Similarly, if I'm janeuser, my files should go into /usr/local/www/data/janeuser.

If the above isn't possible, is there open source software that will allow me to quickly set up some method for quickly uploading people's webpages?

It's only going to house my website and my roommate's, so there's not going to be too many users being hosted.

TIA
--juggler

toddle off to freshmeat.net and get pureftp

are the users using the box as well or just web publishing?

if they are just web publishing then the way to do it is as follows

setup the users with their homedir as $pathtotheirwwwdir
set the passwd for the users
install pure-ftp
run pureftp with -A -B -E

then when the users login via ftp they will automatically be dumped into their www dir and with he -A option set they cant go anywhere else because that chroots them into that dir

Linux its better than women :P

If you give each of your roomates a user name on your box, when they FTP they should end up there. Then in your httpd.conf file you can set up your vhosts to point to the specified directory you want your buddies to use.


Once thats done you can use dreamweaver and automate the the entire proccess.

Road

Hi sidey/Road,

Thanks for your replies.

Pureftpd works great. It was easy to set up. I ended up symlinking it to my /etc/rc3 and rc5 to auto-startup and configured the /etc/pure-ftpd.conf file to enable NoAnonymous.

Road-I'm a little baffled how to set up httpd.conf to set up vhosts.
Currently, when people connect, they connect
as
http://mydomain.com/user

Is it possible to change httpd.conf for thttpd to something like
http://user.mydomain.com?

Thanks for the help thus far.

Not really no. This isn't an web server based thing it's a DNS thing. If you don't really understand DNS then give up on this. If you're determined, maybe the Bind HOWTO would provide some necessary background info.

Sorry for taking so long to respond I have been very busy. Well the next poster is kinda right because it's a little bit of both. With v-hosts you can give each of your roomates entirely seperate domains or sub domains like you were asking. But each sub domain will also need a dns entry pointing to your webservers address. Here is an example of a vhost setup in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1:80>
ServerName romate1.myhouse.come
DocumentRoot /home/romatesname
CustomLog logs/romate1.myhouse.org-access_log combined
</VirtualHost>

There is more to this file than you would need but I figured I should put it down. The custom log thing is optional but it's nice to keep seperate logs so you you can track your individual traffice with webalizer.

The above along with the correct DNS entry would allow you to have your roomates as subdomains instead of just directories in your current domain.

Road

yeah i agree with road,

For the dns stuff you could use a free dns provider *cough* dyndns.org*cough* and give a roommate something like http://roommate1.ath.cx as well as this slight benefit alll the vhosts configuration will be as road said