virtual directories in webserver

[kaosmagix]

Hi,

I'm a fresh Bubba owner with little to no knowledge of linux/apache.

I like to use Andromeda (a PHP mediacollection/streaming site) This works when I put the medifiles directly in the /home/web/andromeda folder, but I want to use the regular /home/storage/music folder for this so I can use the same folders with uPNP as well. To get this to work I have to create a virtual directory (symbolic link) so that http://bubba/andromeda points to /home/storage/music. How can I do this?

Thanks in advance, cris

[tor]

Hi kaosmagix,

Let me start by issueing a warning. If your Bubba webserver is exposed in a "public" environment one should think twice on what is published on it and what implications that might have.

That said a symlink would most likely work. Log in to a shell in your Bubba and do the following:

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ln -s /home/storage/music /home/web/mymusic

and the music foilder should be accessable as http://bubba/mymusic

The more "correct way" of doing this is by adding an alias to apache. The way to do that is by logging in as root to bubba. Create a new file, lets call it music, in /etc/apache2/conf.d that looks something like this.

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Alias /mymusic /home/storage/music 
<Directory "/home/storage/music">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
</Directory>

and then reload apache config by

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/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

/Tor

[GaryL]

If you do this, would it be possible to password protect the linked music folder when accessing http://bubba/mymusic via www with out effecting the samba share?

[estorino]

You could password protect it by using the good old .htaccess trick...

[kaosmagix]

Thanks this works !!!

At this moment security isn't an issue, but in the future it could be.

[GaryL]

I've set up my music folder so that its password protected, it asks for user name and password so seems to work.
But does it look ok?

This is in file "/etc/apache2/conf.d/music"

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Alias /mymusic /home/storage/music
<Directory "/home/storage/music">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Restricted files"
        AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpasswds/.htpasswd
        Require user mymusic
</Directory>

[edit] created authuserfile by issueing the command:
# htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/htpasswds/.htpasswd mymusic

[tor]

Looks ok what i can see. You can read more on this here http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html

/Tor