[CentOS] OT: How to make files placed into FTP directory availablevia http

[Ed Morrison]

Email Lists wrote:
> -> Les Mikesell wrote: to Ed's original also
>
> -> > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 10:36 -0700, Ed Morrison wrote:
> -> >
> -> >> I'm hoping someone out there can tell me or direct me on where to find
> -> >> this info on how to make files placed into an ftp directory available
> -> >> via an url link in an email.  I will have a staff member upload the
> -> >> files to a directory on my ftp server (which is also the web server)
> -> and
> -> >> the files would have to be automatically linked to a web directory,
> -> >> unless the files can be read directly from the ftp server.  This needs
> -> >> to have no interaction from me and should be automagic.....
> -> >>
> -> >> Any and all would be greatly appreciated.
> -> >>
> -> >
> -> > No need to link anything - just make the home directory for the
> -> > user doing the ftp operation the same place that httpd expects
> -> > to find the files and permissioned accordingly.  The user can
> -> > view the web server's directory link after the upload and mail
> -> > that page or cut/paste the URL into the email.
> -> >
> -> >
>
> Then Ed replied...
>
> -> Hi Les:
> -> 
> -> Thanks, that did the trick.  I appreciate the quick response.
> -> 
> -> Ed
>
> Ed
>
> Can you tell us specifically what you did? 
>
> I am a tad confused or lost here... and this is an interesting Centos app of
> course.  :-)
>
> I think the default setting for httpd is not to display the contents of a
> directory especially if there is no index file.
>
>  - rh
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I'm not sure what I can add here.  I created a directory on my webserver 
that is under my /var/www/html/images directory.  I created a proftpd 
profile where that directory was the default upload directory for that 
user (profile).  The images can be read by apache and displayed in a 
webpage or email as I was wanting to do.