We have few servers for sharing files easily. One is called public.futurice.com, which is accessible from everywhere.
Earlier, sftp was the only way to upload files, which is a little bit cumbersome. Server usage is rather versatile: some content is for customers, some for colleagues, and some for everyone.
To make sharing and configuring permissions easier, we made small Django application for managing files and folder access rules.
This service is built on Django jQuery-File-Upload and Bootstrap.
- Run grep to find references to Futurice (some static files here and there):
grep -R -i futurice *
- Install latest Django (1.4), django_compressor and yui-compressor
- Configure authentication for application URL
- Start fastcgi server (./bin/restart.sh)
- Configure apache2 & fastcgi (or wsgi). We use following configuration:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/filemanager/static/(.*)$ /home/filemanager/static/$1 [QSA,L]
FastCGIExternalServer /var/www/filemanager.fcgi -socket /home/filemanager/filemanager.sock
RewriteRule ^/filemanager/(.*)$ /filemanager.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]
Assumptions in the code (feel free to change, just good to know):
- Run python manage.py collectstatic and python manage.py compress when you change static files.
- URL is /filemanager/ (mainly for static files, majority of URLs are generated automatically)
- /home/u/username/ style home folders
- ~/public_html accessible over http
- ~/public_ssl accessible over https
- ~/upload not accessible over web server
- .htaccess enabled
- pubtkt configured on the server
- Write access to everyone's home folder
- Sudo access without password to /root/safe_chown.py
MIT license.
Copyright (C) 2012 Futurice Ltd, Olli Jarva
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