On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 09:25 -0700, John Duddy wrote: > Certainly there is s simpler way to talk to an already running > instance of rocket (mine) and tell it to serve more static files? I > could also do it via apache, if I could talk to apache and tell it to > serve from locations not listed in its config. I need to do this at > runtime, though.
To serve anything anywhere in the filesystem, you can do something like:
Alias /reports /
And then append the file path. Of course be aware of the risks of
letting users browse the whole filesystem..
If that's in a small intranet to which only trusted people can have
access, plus you tweak permissions on filesystem in order to limit where
the www-data user can have access, plus limit cgi/php/.. file execution
to only some locations, and maybe even add http authentication, this
could be a valid solution..
Better if you can restrict more the accessible path, eg. if your users
will create reports only in their home dirs, you can use something like:
Alias /reports /home
And maybe even limit which user can access which directory (there are
several ways to do this, depending on where you get the users, etc.)
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