Topic: Online html editor and file manager

[Andrew Rosenau]

I was wondering if there is a way to accomplish a task similar to www.geocities.com  Where i could provide users with a online file manager, and the chance to edit their html files directly on the server, and possibly an easy upload feature?

[Andrew Rosenau]

Is this not possibly or what? I have searched the forums and google, and have come up with things like phpGroupWare, and other things--but this is not what i want, as i do not need colleberitive software, i just need a way for users to upload their websites throught the web browser, edit html files online, and possibly automatic account creation. Any help?

[Rich Lafferty]

Sounds like WebDAV would do it. I haven't used any WebDAV stuff, but what
you describe is what it does, by my understanding:

    What is WebDAV?
    Briefly: WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and
    Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows
    users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.

(From http://www.webdav.org/ -- see also the WebDAV FAQ at ttp://www.webdav.org/other/faq.html)

There's an Apache WebDAV module:

  http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/

Cheers,

--Rich

[Andrew Rosenau]

Thanx for your response, installed the rpm of mod_dav, and it installed just fine--but i am really confused about the configuration--does anyone know if there is howto out there for this--i searched the forums but came up with nothing

[Emiel]

I was reading your actions while i was searching for a method to install WebDAV to my 5.6 server for using Mozilla Calendar. I tried to install the mod_dav as on http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/install.html but i couln't get it to work. Then I read there was an RPM so i got it:

rpm -ivh mod_dav-1.0.3-5.i386.rpm



But I can't find the outcome. What am I doing wrong??

[Anonymous]

You need to activate the module by building a custom template fragment for httpd.conf
you then also need to add the DAV specific stuff as a fragment for a directory you want to use. The tricky part is trying to tie this into the sme user db. I have managed to egt it running requiring the admin password but this is not ideal. I will continue to work on this and post back .

[Anonymous]

any luck on this yet?

Thanks