[K12OSN] Anyone running apache on their k12ltsp box?

Paul Davison pauldavison at psps.com
Fri Jul 9 20:27:02 UTC 2004


Carl Keil wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a small, low volume web site on my k12ltsp box.  It's 
> actually serving my mp3 collection.  I want it to be password 
> protected from the outside world, so I don't get in trouble with the 
> RIAA, but I want the clients and other users on the LAN not to be 
> challenged for a password.  When I make changes to the .htaccess page 
> in the directory all of a sudden the clients get the default apache 
> page that says that the server isn't set up.  When I change it back, 
> they get asked for the password, but sent through to the proper 
> directory.  Is anybody else doing this?  What's the proper way to set 
> this up?  I don't know whether to restrict by IP, or what.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ck

Hi Carl,

If there is no reason for anyone outside of your internal network to be 
using your webserver, you should probably just firewall it off from the 
outside world.  Then your internal users don't have to deal with 
authentication, and the webserver doesn't even exist to the outside 
world.  I am sure you could restrict access by IP from the httpd.conf 
file as well, but firewalling is probably easier since you probably 
already have a firewall between you and the internet anyway. 

hope that helps

Paul





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