Topic: access to iBay by http

[Dave Reinhardt]

I can FTP to an iBay OK w/PW
I can http to the same iBay w/PW, but not see anything or access any of the dir.
group is set to everyone
user acccess is set to write=group,read=everyone
public access is set to enntire internet(password required)
What am I missing?
Thanks
Dave
Ver 4.1.1

[Tom Peck]

Does it come up with a login screen when you try to connect to the site?  

If yes, and you have successfully logged in (ie. it doesn't show the authorisation failed page), have you uploaded files to the html folder inside that iBay?  This is where the web page is stored.

Also try logging in with the iBay name, and password set for that iBay.

[Dave Reinhardt]

it does come up with a login screen and does display the index.html in the html dir, but how do I get to the files dir?
Dave

[Tom Peck]

The files dir is not actually part of the website, it is below the website root.  Anything below the html directory, the web browser will not be able to see (and for security reasons, you should not enable).

If you want to store files on your website for people to access, then create a directory called files or whatever in your html directory, and link to it with your index.html.

eg:
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/[[webpage]]/html/files

you can create this by ftping to the site.

[Dave Reinhardt]

Thanks Tom,
is there a access to the user area and the files dir in the user area thru http?

[Tom Peck]

To the best of my knowledge - no.  Only iBay's can be set up for HTTP access..

To access one of my mounted drives (located /mnt/mp3) through HTTP, I had to change the template for HTTPD to allow SYMLINKS to be traversed via HTTP.

You could do this to allow access to one of your user's files available though HTTP - let me know if you want todo this, and I can go into specifics..