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 > > -- > Robert - Abba Communications > Computer & Internet Services > (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > 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.