Subject: Re: Can't get my web pages from mac to YDL using FTP or Atalk
From: Philip Good (phil@go2taichi.com)
Date: Mon Mar 12 2001 - 11:14:25 MST
Make sure the user you are ftp'ed into the YDL machine is part of the "nobody" group, assuming apache is running as nobody.
as root run:
chown -R nobody:nobody /home/httpd/html
chmod -R +s /home/https/html
I think this "should" take care of things.
You should use ssh instead of telnet. This also allows you to use scp, a secure way to copy between machines. Mac has a decent
version of ssh at:
Not sure if there's a way to use scp through macssh though...
Good luck
Phil
> Bare with with me on this. There's probably dozen ways I could fix this and
> I haven't figure out any yet.
>
> What I want to do: use Dreamweaver on my Mac to edit web sites, which will
> be served by Apache on YDL. The Apache server httpd.conf has
> DocumentRoot "/home/httpd/html"
>
> So I would want to store my site in a subdirectory somewhere like
> /home/httpd/html/mywebsite
>
> How to get them there? Well, Dreamweaver (DW) has ftp built in to "publish"
> a site. But I can't get an ftp connection to my Linux box using DW, nor
> using Vicomsoft FTP Client. (I've used both tools successfully to ftp to
> several other servers.) I've used Webmin to check the FTP service on my
> Linux server, which appears to be enabled.
>
> So, potential fix #1 would be to get it so I can ftp the files to the proper
> directory.
>
> I also run the atalk daemon so I can store files on Linux from my mac. Using
> this, I can mount my home directory and save files in it, including a whole
> site for DW. However, I can't get atalk to let me "see" any other
> directories outside my user directory. Also I can't mount any Linux files as
> root. That is, if I open the Chooser, type in my server's IP address or DNS
> name, and type "root" in the Name box and type the root password in the
> password box, it doesn't work. (I'm not thrilled that it sends a cleartext
> password either, but I haven't wanted to rebuild atalk to change that.
> [miniflame -- why doesn't the "default" build of atalk support encrypted
> passwords? sheesh] )
>
> Potential fix #2 would be to access ~httpd/html via atalk. Haven't been able
> to get it to work.
>
> Since storing them in my home directory on Linux at least gets them to the
> right machine, I've tried moving the files to ~httpd/html after getting them
> to my home directory. This gives me all kinds of weird access problems --
> permissions are screwed up when I do it this way. There's probably some sort
> Apache configuration change to fix that, too. I guess that would be
> potential fix #3.
>
> Another weirdness is that if I telnet to my Linux machine, I can log in as a
> regular user then do an "su root" successfully. But I can't log in as root.
> This somehow seems like it might be related to the problem of not being able
> to mount ~root via Chooser.
>
> Sorry if this seems to be all over the place. I'll be happy to get this
> problem solved by *any* means. Over time perhaps I'll understand the reasons
> behind *all* these issues.
>
> -Tom
>
>
>
-- Philip Good Red Planet Development, Red Canyon Software, Good Chi Tai Chi
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