Re: The simplest of questions ... (Apache Users)

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Tall Paul <pbhewitt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well thanks to all the great suggestions I got past the first hurdle. I changed the listening port to 8080 and now my webpage can be accessed via the net. Now I would like to have the ability to allow people to upload and download files, like an online file server. Any ideas about that?
Paul

----- Original Message ----- From: "steve" <sfreilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:47 PM

Subject: Re: The simplest of questions ...

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Alastair Roy wrote:
| This sounds like a firewall problem, do you have a firewall installed on
| the PC, check if this is maybe blocking port 80
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or an ISP problem. many of them are known to block incoming HTTP
requests on all ports. I had that problem with Frontier DSL, switched
to Time warner because they dont block anything, at least not in my area.

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Steve Reilly

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Uploading and downloading files doesn't have a whole lot to do with apache (other than regular content that is...)
Scripting such as PHP may be what you want:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

you'll also find about downloading there if you search.