[dba-VB] serving up a directory as a web page...

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Wed Apr 14 16:44:54 CDT 2010


Personally,I prefer Apache as a webserver.  I find it simpler to configure.

Is this web interface for WWW or intranet use?  If you are just working on an intranet and 
aren't too worried about security, all you have to do is make the folder tree the "document 
root" of a "virtual host" and he can browse the folders without any further work - no need tor 
.net, php or anything.   If it is WWW, I'd probably set up an FTP server such as filezilla for 
him to access the folders through an easy to use FTP client.

-- 
Stuart

On 14 Apr 2010 at 7:44, Francisco Tapia wrote:

> so with all these news on iPad,  our team ended up getting one, but to make
> it really useful, we are being asked on how can we make it search our
> network drives so that content is served up on it easily, currently our
> manager who has been testing it sends the files he wants to it via email and
> then just opens them this way during his meeting, however if he forgets one,
> he sends us an email so that we can send it his way.  My question, since
> this thing will open up pdf's served up from the web, and convert docs to
> pages files on the fly, why not have it really be useful and setup some sort
> of web interface to 2 or 3 of our folders and just serve them up so the boss
> can surf these directories and read them as he needs.
> 
> but of course how would you approach this?  with iis/.net or apache and php?
> 
> thanks,
> -Francisco
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