httpd.conf and aliases

3mors

3mors

HampCake Studios
I'd like to let friends download files from my webserver.
The problem is that these files are outside root folder (DocumentRoot) of Apache, so I have to use aliases.
Code: 
AliasMatch /firewire/ "/Volumes/firewire/"
	
<Directory "/Volumes/firewire/">
    Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
</Directory>
In this case I share files in firewire and on http://localhost/firewire/ i see the list of files.
But if I click on one of them (aaa.sit, for example), the download doesn't start and the browser go to http://localhost/firewire/aaa.sit/ and I see the same list of /firewire/.

How to tell apache to let download these files?

:confused:
 
I'm not that great an apache expert, but maybe it's syntax?

Alias /Firewire/ "/Volumes/firewire/"

Apparently aliasmatch is used when an alias is a regular expression:

Did you chack your mime-types?
/private/etc/httpd/mime.types
declares th mime types, in it should be:

application/x-stuffit sit

HIH
 
MMM
Do I have to do it for every file type I want to share?

If I have a sit, a zip, an mpeg, a pdf and other stuff, I'd like that they could be all downloadable, without changing httpd.conf everytime I put a new type file.
 
I don't understand your last question (WHAT do you have to do for every file?)

I have some aliases, and they are just Alias (not aliasmatch) and it works fine, i can access files in these aliased directories with no trouble.

Mime-types are declared for filetypes (extensions like .sit)
 
Only a last question:

if I share a folder, I can see Desktop DB and Desktop DF files via http.
How to hide them?
 
Originally posted by 3mors
Only a last question:

if I share a folder, I can see Desktop DB and Desktop DF files via http.
How to hide them?
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As I figured out on http://www.apache.org/, AliasMatch is a way of making aliases to folders with names that fit in a regular expression.
So, For* would alias Formerly but also Fork.

You can hide files from view, using IndexIgnore.
Somewhere in your httpd.conf there's something like:
Code: 
IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t

Add names or expressions that you don't want to show up.
For instance *.html will hide any file that ends in .html
So your line could be something like
Code: 
IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t Desktop*

I think they will still be accessible if you ask for them directly. You could also restrict access using <files>.


Edit: Maybe it's better to make a folder on your disk, and make an alias to that: /Volumes/FireWire/SomeFolder
That way the Desktop DB etc. are under the aliased file and won't be seen or accessed anyway

:)
 
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