That's cool - I'll definitely consider it. Thanks!
On Nov 2, 10:03 am, ~redShadow~ <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.) > > -- > Samuele ~redShadow~ Santi > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > redshadow[at]hackzine.org - redshadowhack[at]gmail.com > > Blog:http://hackzine.org > > GPG Key signature: > 050D 3E9F 6E0B 44CE C008 D1FC 166C 3C7E EB26 4933 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > /me recommends: > Squadra Informatica -http://www.squadrainformatica.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > - Proud ThinkPad T-Series owner > - Registered Linux-User: #440008 > * GENTOO User since 1199142000 (2008-01-01) > * former DEBIAN SID user > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > "Software is like sex: it's better when it's free!" > -- Linus Torvalds > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload
