Apache; two quick questions

bejiita · 04-12-2005, 10:24 AM

ive had the fortunate experience of succesfully serving my webpage thru apache2*53.

hey two quick questions

1. is it possible to serve a public page as well as a private page simultaneously ? Ive built a page
for my wife and only want her login or hostname able to see it here in our LAN.

2. IYHO what is the best tool, ported to Linux that is, for building graphics for a webpage like photoshop, freehand, etc... im using inkscape right now and ISO a possible alternate

Thx again in advance

Bejiita

major.tom · 04-12-2005, 11:41 AM

If her computer uses a static IP, it should be pretty easy. If not, it's possible, just a bit trickier.

You can create an alias to her page as follows:

Code:

  Alias /wife "/home/wife"
  <Directory "/home/wife">
    AllowOverride Options FileInfo
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from 192.168.1.1 (or whatever her computer's IP address is)
  </Directory>

This requires no login.

If you want to require login to see that page, you'll have to add a userid to the groups.conf file and a md5-hashed password (which you might be able to copy from /etc/shadow) in .htpasswd. Then it can be used as follows:

Code:

  Alias /wife "/home/wife"
  <Directory /home/wife>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Wife's Eyes Only"
    AuthUserFile  /etc/apache/.htpasswd
    AuthGroupFile /etc/apache/groups.conf
    Require group wife
    Satisfy All
    AllowOverride None
  </Directory>

Garry

bejiita · 04-12-2005, 11:50 AM

hey man thx

yes im running static ip's this side of the router for that purpose and others ill try that and let ya know how it went

bejiita · 04-12-2005, 12:31 PM

didnt quite seem to work the page is still avail on the public internet

now do I add those lines in the VHost section or Main Server Section ?

major.tom · 04-12-2005, 01:00 PM

Did you restart the server?

apachectl graceful

This has to be done so that the changes to httpd.conf take effect.

I might also have gotten the "Order allow,deny" bit in the wrong order. If restarting doesn't help, try "Order deny,allow".

Garry

killerbob · 04-12-2005, 01:16 PM

You can also serve up an intranet site using name virtualhosts in Apache. If the request doesn't come to the right FQDN, the user doesn't get the webpage they were expecting.

On my system, the intranet site doesn't have a real name. (The TLD I'm using for my internal network isn't real). It exists on my DNS server, but that's the only place it exists. That way, if a user wants the internal server (used as a testbed for php applications, mostly), they just have to type in http://intranet.mylocaldomain, and for mail, it's imap.mylocaldomain and smtp.mylocaldomain

bejiita · 04-12-2005, 01:26 PM

ok I think were moving in the right direction I tried both ideas you sugg

but now im getting prompted for a usrnm/pwd and cannot get past
she is connecting from a M$/IE client and my server is listening on both
http 80 and https 443

DaHammer · 04-13-2005, 02:11 AM

Did you add a user/password to Apache's password file? When all else fails, read the manual.

gbonvehi · 04-13-2005, 02:29 AM

bejiita try this:

Code:

  Alias /wife "/home/wife"
  <Directory "/home/wife">
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from YourLanIP
  </Directory>

bejiita · 04-13-2005, 07:34 AM

yeah,I hear ya hammer a little wordy but it all boils down to RTFM i guess,

gbonvehi - thats a little diff from what I have ill try that later

Thx again