Posted by Dan N on 09/21/05 14:30

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:48:55 -0700, subscriptions wrote:

As the other poster said, have a look at webdav. The apache site should
have some info.


I don't know if this is what you're after, but have a look at:

gallery.menalto.com

It's an open source web based photo album organiser. I haven't used it,
so I can't comment on whether or not it's any good.

Dan


> Hi,
>
> So here's the deal; I'm hosting several people on a virtual server running
> Linux (White Box Enterprise), each of which has an internet presence.
> (Apache webserver.) They're also web novices. I want to develop a method
> by which they can upload photos to a folder on the server from their
> client computer, without having to use FTP, creating the folder if
> necessary. This would be accessed from the client-side from a signed
> applet. How could this be done, short of granting univeral write access
> in the folder? Is there a way (for instance) that a user can access their
> remote account with the rights of their local user? I.E., as if they'd
> logged in via FTP? This should run as quietly as possible, not requiring
> HTML forms and the like.
>
> I'm new to Apache programming, so I'd appreciate any links to
> possibilities for doing this, or any projects that've already done it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walter Gildersleeve
> Freiburg, Germany

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