Hosting webpages on localhost

rozilla · 07-06-2008, 10:09 AM

We've got a fileserver (Hardy) at our university, serving Hardy clients (Laptops & Desktops), with a handful of Windows clients here and there. I need to set up the following things for students, professors and other staff.

I want these individuals to each have their own limited webspace on our fileserver. That is, when you're on our Intranet and you type http://<ip_of_fileserver>/<username> into your broswer, it should take you to the index.html of their personal web directory, which I assume must be a subdirectory in /var/www/ on our fileserver.

How do I set this up? Do I create a pub directory under each user's home directory? Or is it simply a matter of creating directories for each user under /var/www/?

What I want is for these directories to be the same as their usernames. I want the owners of these directories to have to upload their pages with ftp, for example. I need them to log in with the same username and password they use for logging into the Hardy workstations at the lab. This way, I won't have UserA mucking about in the web directory of UserB.

It's a Sunday afternoon, and I'm wondering what's the quickest way of getting this set up before tomorrow?

Thank you

LordAnta · 07-06-2008, 10:20 AM

in your httpd.conf (or apache2.conf) enter this:

Code:

 # Settings for user home directories
#
# Required module: mod_userdir

#
# UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.  Note that you must also set
# the default access control for these directories, as in the example below.
#
UserDir public_html

#
# Control access to UserDir directories.  The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
<Directory "/home/*/public_html">
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>
</Directory>

Now, you can acces a users page:

Code:

 http://<ip_of_fileserver>/~<username>

Hope it helps!

rozilla · 07-06-2008, 12:05 PM

cool, thanks! that worked! but the fileserver is not accepting ftp connections :-(

LordAnta · 07-06-2008, 12:15 PM

Well, start a FTP daemon so it can accept ftp connections.
But why don't you use scp? (at my college we used WinScp for windows and scp and gftp for linux to transfer files )

rozilla · 07-07-2008, 08:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LordAnta

Well, start a FTP daemon so it can accept ftp connections.
But why don't you use scp? (at my college we used WinScp for windows and scp and gftp for linux to transfer files )

that worked, thanks! :-)