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I am not happy with the private share portion of this article.

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Introduction

I often find I need to quickly share files with the general public or selected friends. As such I have setup Online Shares with Apache. Continuing our example I will put put a public and private share on krypton as follows,

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Assuming you are logged in as a Staff User created in the Setup Ubuntu Linux Base Server,

Shared - Public Share Folder

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cd /home/www.krypton.com
sudo mkdir shared # Browseable folder to drop content to share with others
sudo mkdir shared.private # Browser password protected folder to drop content to share with others via .htaccess
sudo mkdir keys # Place to store keys for protected folder

cd /home

sudo chown -R serveradmin:wgkryptonian ./www.krypton.com/shared/

sudo chmod -R 775 www.krypton.com/shared/ # Only svradm and users in the kryptonian group can manage. Apache(other's) still need to be able to read and browse.

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sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

shared.private - Private Folders

kalel wants to have a private place to store his documents that can only be access by accounts he sets up.

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