Re: [cobalt-users] FTP/Upload access

[colin.hogben@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Todd Knaus <todd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 	I have a new web client that needs to be able to give upload/ftp 
> privileges to various employee's.  However, he only wants them to be 
> access/ftp to certain directories.  i.e. the sales dept. can only 
> upload/download to the sales directory, the orders dept. can only 
> upload/download to the orders directory and so on.

What I did in a similar situation (as a mere site administrator) was
to create users for each subsection of the site which you want people
to administer inde[endently.  Then create symbolic links from the main
site web directory into the users' web space, e.g.

  ln -s ../users/sales/web  /home/sites/site#/web/sales
  ln -s ../users/orders/web /home/sites/site#/web/orders

You also need to create a .htaccess file in the main web directory and
insert the following line:

  Options FollowSymLinks

Now the sales user can upload their pages into the web subdirectory of
their FTP space and this gets mapped seamlessly into the /sales part
of the web site, e.g. the file web/offer.html maps onto
http://www.theirdomain/sales/offer.html etc.

Regards,
-- 
Colin Hogben