Topic: I turn to you...my elite sources of knowledge...

[grattman]

Sorry for the post in Experienced....I am far from that. Not sure how I doofed that up, but this should have been in General.

I have SME 6.0X, and it recently came to my attention that the staff at my school would like to make thier own webpages. The SAU tech director would like for me to give them access to the website. This is just not a sound idea.

So....my thought is I can make an html directory within their home directory, which they would have access to. I could then mimic the directory structure on the server making symbolic links to the users /home/html directories.

I did just this, and ended up getting a 403 error. The symbolic link I created was like so:

ln -s target-directory=/home/e-smith/files/users/randc/home/html

I changed the permissions of the directory and all files within to 777.

I know I am close but I cannot seem to get the final piece working.

Thanks in advance,
Brian

[gbaird]

Try a search for user-webpages or public webpages there is a howto or contrib the set it up

to create a public-html folder for all users
you will need to edit the /etc/skel folder and add a public-html folder this will add it to all new users

you may also have to edit or create a template-custom for your http.conf

best to look for the howto or contrib

hope this helps

[grattman]

Good advice....and I have tried to find any relevant howto on the forums and documentation.

I have tried to find information on editing the /ect/skel, as well as using the search under contribs to find information. Using search has yielded no results, so at this time I am stepping through each contributor trying to find a howto that applies.

[RonM]

There's a how to and links to files here:

http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/Mini%20How%20to%20for%20creating%20user%20web%20space

Here's a thread about permissions issues after the install, just in case.

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=24563.msg99369#msg99369

Good Luck!

[grattman]

Ron,

Thanks a million, that was exactly what I was looking for. It worked great.

One note for anyone attempting this in the future, the rpm listed is password protected, so I got mine from:

http://www.watson-trant.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=52&func=fileinfo&parent=category&filecatid=47

Best regards,
Brian

[RonM]

Glad it worked.

One note - I was able to download this file from ibiblio, both with http and anon ftp. It installed fine. Maybe local file permissions issue?

Thanks for the link - never saw that site before!

[grattman]

I overlooked the link to from ibiblio. I was refering to the link given in the how-to:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=24563.msg99369#msg99369

Download http://khunjarnet.com/downloads/user-web-space/e-smith-user-webspace-0.1-3.noarch.rpm

Thanks again!