On 27/09/2014 15:35, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Joel Rees wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Ron Leach <ronle...@tesco.net> wrote:
List, good afternoon,
What package would list members suggest for a small webserver that
would
enable co-workers to upload files to us?
Oh. Well, look at webdav. This is something regularly done with webdav.
That's precisely what WebDAV is for - and it has the advantage that
client support is pretty widely available (built into Windows, MacOS,
readily available for linux).
Server support is a bit harder to find. There's an apache module. But
it might be easier to simply set up a subversion server - it comes
with a built-in WebDAV server:
apt-get install subversion
plus some configuration.
I don't know anything about WebDAV - I had seen reference to it in the
context of shared diaries/appointments, I think, such as corporates
use with their MS Outlook/Exchange systems. Both this suggestion of
subversion, and another poster's suggestion of using a wiki, are new
to me for this application, and I'll check them both out.
Several folk offered various webservers and, though I am sure those
will work, apache and lighttpd being two well-known ones, when I
looked around for CGI (or perl, apparently) scripts there were plenty
of 'free' examples but I've nowhere near enough experience to take
scripts off the web (and check that they are secure) for a file upload
of work-related files. I didn't find any 'CGI for dummies' sort of
sites, either. I'm hoping that subversion or a wiki may solve my need.
And thanks, of course, to everyone who - very strongly, for good
reasons - recommended ftp and SSH but my co-workers really are locked
down to email, http, and https, and their IT systems are configured to
bar installing of arbitrary software. (Apart from that, while they
are perfectly competent in their work subjects, they are not in the
least technical or geeky.)
regards, Ron
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