Advice sought on makine web-server safe

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Thu Nov 17 18:36:59 UTC 2005


Tim wrote:

>> I want to allow general access to the web-server (apache) on my
>> desktop, but not to any other services on this machine.
> 
> What do you mean by general access?  Access to read the files it serves?
> Access to create files to be served?  Access to configure the server?

Apologies, my previous response got garbled.

By "general access" I meant that anyone should have access to my web-files -
they would not require any sort of password or code.
I would not like anyone to have access to configure the server
or to create files on my computer.
I only want to offer the ability to see my web-pages.
 
> And in what way do mean by your desktop?  A short cut to something?  Are
> you referring to your user account?

Sorry, I just meant my computer attached to the internet. 
(It acually has a static IP address.)
I wasn't referring to my user account, or any kind of short cut.

I used the word "desktop" simply because I was on a laptop (on a train)
at the time - which was also the reason for the garbled message.

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Timothy Murphy  
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