Re: [tlug] Uploading web files into the www

[Jim <jep200404@example.com>]

Forrest Nelson wrote:

> Any ideas on the proper procedure for uploading web files? 

There many correct ways. 

I like scp -pr and rsync -aH -e ssh for their security 
and their ability to preserve permissions. 

> You do not have permissions to see this web page. 

Most likely your file permissions are screwed up. 
It's not clear how much you know about UNIX file permissions, 
so I recommend exploring the following: 

   http://www.google.com/search?q=unix+permissions+tutorial

As Darren Cook wrote, you can make your web files in the 
apache group, and readable by the apache group. 
Alternatively you could make the files readable by everyone. 

   find /your/www/directory -type f -exec chmod o+r  {} \;
   find /your/www/directory -type d -exec chmod o+rw {} \;

It sounds like the way you convey files is cumbersome. 
Each machine in the middle can have different users and 
so each machine has an opportunity to screw up the permissions 
if you copy each web file as a file. 

Alternatively, you could bundle all the files into one file, 
with all the permission information hidden inside, then 
convey the one big file. Mangled permissions on that one big 
file, would not affect the permission information hidden inside. 

On source computer: 

   cd /your/www/directory
   tar cvzf tx.tgz .

Then convey tx.tgz to the destination computer by whatever means, 
then unbundle the tx.tgz tarball: 

   cd /your/www/directory
   tar xvzf tx.tgz .