Publicly Accessible Folder Over HTTP?

[Jiriteach]

Hi There,

Does anyone know if its possible to set a folder to be publicly accessible via HTTP?
Example: Drop a file into a shared folder called "Public"

This file is then accessible by browsing to:

http://servername/public? Or something similar with directory browsing enabled AND without being prompted for a username and password?

How does one set this up in DSM 4.0?

Cheers

[Jiriteach]

Hi There,

Does anyone know how to do this?

Cheers

[myCloud]

Assuming you have Web Services running, create a folder in /volume1/web named public and put the file(s) in there. Unless you put a deny all to all robots.txt at the root of /volume1/web, Google and all the other search engines will index it and return links to it in searches.

[axj]

Another possibility is to use FileZilla (maybe others). I have created several folders at the same level as music, photo and web like public, f-data and others and have full access to them. It looks like an advanced pathfinder. About the same can be done with 'My WebDav' if you are using an IPad3 (the interface is familiar to FileZilla).

[Goner]

If you only put files like *.jpg or *.txt in the /public folder, nothing will show up as HTTP only works with files like index.html or index.php

I found this after some Googling :

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<?php

$dir="."; // Directory where files are stored

if ($dir_list = opendir($dir))
{
while(($filename = readdir($dir_list)) !== false)
{
?>
<p><a href="<?php echo $filename; ?>"><?php echo $filename;
?></a></p>
<?php
}
closedir($dir_list);
}

?>

the code needs some cleaning up as the order in which the files are shown is not correct, but if you save the code as index.php in /public it will show all files in the folder (including itself) so you can right-click them and do 'save as ...'
(dir="." points to itself)

You could also produce a directory listing with .htaccess file for Apache

[myCloud]

You can link to files in /volume1/web/public without having to publish a public directory listing. I have directories by subject under web with files I link to in forum posts, emails, etc.

[animator]

If you wanna share directories that are not in the web directory and dont want to transfer all the files from there, it can be done by using bind mounts.

Example:
I have a folder called Music which I stored in the folder /public, so the path is /public/Music/

Now i will create a directory in /web with the same name (doesnt have to be the same) so the path in web folder is /web/Music/

Now we need to use ssh or telnet. And write this command:

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mount --bind /volume1/public/Music /volume1/web/Music

(I have only 1-rack NAS server not sure how the /volume mount point looks like on more rack servers.)

Now we have made a bind between these folders so the folder in /web/Music/ is now pointing to the directory /public/Music/ and is accessible through the web http://domain or ip/Music/

This is also a way I have forced FTP users to have access to the right folders.

[Leonmeijer]

You can also modify the open_basedir setting by including the public folder path. Then use a PHP script to list / get the files from that folder.