[Macpartners] Help with public folder in OSX

[Carolyn Fuller]

Dan,

> I am running OS X and I am trying to set my personal web sharing such 
> that people could have a look at the files within the Public directory 
> and download them.  The problem is that the default setting does not 
> allow to see a list of files

I've been running web sharing on my Mac since it first became possible 
many years ago. When I upgraded to OS X last December I did not attempt 
to set up the old OS 9 default of just listing the files in my web 
sharing folder because I had actually experienced problems with that 
default as the number of files grew. If the number of files you have 
remains reasonably small, this won't be a problem for you. But if the 
number grows, you might encounter the same problems with Apache as I 
encountered in OS 9.

My solution was to create a home page that lists links to directories:

http://fuller.mit.edu/

Then within those directories the files are listed:

http://fuller.mit.edu/misc/

Carolyn

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Carolyn Fuller
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Financial Systems Services
Senior Analyst/ Programmer
W92-210
voice (617) 253-6213
fax (617) 253-9661
http://fuller.mit.edu/