For all those interested in FOSS-based approaches to virus scanning for web app servers, this is an article I found while researching whether there was an easy solution to Al’s request: <http://www.techspot.co.in/2009/03/file-upload-and-virus-scanners.html>
On May/19, 2012, at 0019 , tamouse mailing lists wrote: > Hi, Al, > > This can be automated, but it's not exactly a one or two-line script. > I think others and myself discussed this a bit in your last thread > about virus checking. If you aren't up for writing it yourself, > perhaps you might engage the services of someone who can do it for > you. > > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Al Louis Ripskis <[email protected]> wrote: >> Many thanks to Josh, Gilles, Tamouse and JDD for helping me resolve this >> conundrum. >> Since PmWiki architecture apparently doesn't permit to automate this >> process, here is how I'm dealing with it: >> I manually (via FileZilla) transfer all the files From the PmWiki-wide >> uploads directory to my local C:\public_html\UnTestedUploads directory, >> where I can use my AVG anti-virus program to check out and delete the >> infected files, then process the uninfected files as necessary. >> It would be nice to be able to do this automatically, but c'est la vie! >> Thanks to all, >> Al >> >> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> Sent: May 17, 2012 3:21 PM >>> To: Al Louis Ripskis <[email protected]> >>> Cc: pmwiki-users <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] How do you creating one, wiki-wide, Upload >>> Directory on Local Site, not remote site? >>> >>> Dear Al, >>> >>> obviously this can’t work. your remote config.php will only affect the >>> remote settings and therefore only manipulate the remote file system. to >>> achieve what you want to do, you will… >>> >>> 1) …either have to mirror the site using something like rsync’ing with the >>> help of a cron job (and have all the problems discussed in an earlier >>> desktop virus scan software thread in this list, which you will probably >>> find in the mailing list archives) >>> >>> 2) …or write some script that does what you need it to do (basically find a >>> way to interface the local and the remote sites). >>> >>> >>> assuming your primary goal is not to move pages from one pmwiki instance to >>> another and have them cross-reference/load their pages, but rather have a >>> way to scan your uploaded files for malware/viruses/etc, you should >>> probably do one of those things: >>> >>> a) if you need to run the scan from your workstation, rather than running >>> it on the server itself, the easiest way would be to mount the server >>> directory as a smb share on your local machine (if your remote and local >>> sites are not on the same network, you will probably have to use a vpn >>> tunnel for that). to explain how to do that is kind of out of the scope of >>> this mailing list, as it is not a PmWiki specific question, but more of a >>> general server administration/setup task. >>> >>> b) you could consider installing a virus scanner (e. g. clamav-server) on >>> your remote site’s server and have it watch your uploads folder and >>> subdirs. this would definitely be a better solution, but users still won’t >>> get feedback why their file has suddenly disappeared. disappearing files is >>> still better than serving malware. and if you have to much spare time on >>> your hand you could even come up with a solution how to have clamav-server >>> tell pmwiki which files had to be removed. >>> >>> c) you could come up with a new way for pmwiki to upload files (e. g. write >>> a new uploader) which automatically triggers your server’s antivirus >>> software and only successfully moves the file into place after it has been >>> cleared by the av software. >>> >>> >>> again, this topic is not really related to PmWiki in the first place, since >>> it’s a problem basically every content management system has. you might >>> have better luck searching the web for a more general solution to this >>> problem, or maybe ask this question in a more generalized way on >>> stackoverflow. >>> >>> Josh >>> >>> On May/17, 2012, at 1957 , Al Louis Ripskis wrote: >>> >>>> May 17, 2012 8:57 AM [email protected]; Josh wrote: >>>> $UploadDir = "C:/public_html/pmwiki/uploads"; >>>> $UploadUrlFmt = >>>> "http://www.politicaltransformation.org/htdocs/pmwiki/uploads";; >>>>> Did you put these lines in your local or remote site’s local/config.php? >>>>> Can you clarify what your local and remote sites actually are? >>>> The remote site is my politicaltransformation.org PmWiki and that's the >>>> config.php file that I inserted the above two lines of script. >>>> Now my local site is the computer I'm operating from that has Windows XP >>>> Home OS. >>>> Thanks again, >>>> Al >>>> >>>>> On May/17, 2012, at 1414 , Al Louis Ripskis wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> May 16, 2012 10:11 PM Tamouse wrote: Do I understand this correctly.Let >>>>>> me know if that's the situation so I can respond: >>>>>>> a) politicaltransformation.org is hosted on a remote site? YES >>>>>>> b) you are expecting the remote site to understand a path on your local >>>>>>> machine? YES >>>>>>> c) you are further expecting the wiki software to deliver a file to a >>>>>>> user by cross-loading it from your local machine? NO. Deliver the user >>>>>>> uploaded files to Local Upload directory so they can be checked out by >>>>>>> my AVG virus program for viruses, etc..If this is not possible, is >>>>>>> there another way to check out automatically whether the uploaded files >>>>>>> are infected? >>>>>> Thanks very much, >>>>>> Al >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>>> From: tamouse mailing lists >>>>>>> Sent: May 16, 2012 10:11 PM >>>>>>> To: Al Louis Ripskis >>>>>>> Cc: pmwiki-users >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] How do you creating one, wiki-wide, Upload >>>>>>> Directory on Local Site, not remote site? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Al Louis Ripskis wrote: >>>>>>>> According to PmWiki Upload Administration instructions all you suppose >>>>>>>> to do >>>>>>>> is put this or equivalent in you Config file:: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> $UploadDir = "/home/foobar/public_html/uploads"; >>>>>>>> $UploadUrlFmt = "http://example.com/~foobar/uploads";; >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> When I translate the above to my Windows XP OS needs, I come with this: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> $UploadDir = "C:/public_html/pmwiki/uploads"; >>>>>>>> $UploadUrlFmt = >>>>>>>> "http://www.politicaltransformation.org/htdocs/pmwiki/uploads";; >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> But all this does is create another upload directory on the remote >>>>>>>> site. >>>>>>>> I would like to create one, site-wide directory on the local site. >>>>>>>> How do I do that? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Do I understand this correctly: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> a) politicaltransformation.org is hosted on a remote site? >>>>>>> b) you are expecting the remote site to understand a path on your local >>>>>>> machine? >>>>>>> c) you are further expecting the wiki software to deliver a file to a >>>>>>> user by cross-loading it from your local machine? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Let me know if that's the situation so I can respond. >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> pmwiki-users mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
