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What is the best way to make my webpage file avail. from my LAN to 2 other users over the internet in linux?
This is my first post here so I'm sorry if my form is wrong.
This summer, myself and 2 others are creating a webpage. I want to make the file available to us all for designing purposes from a linux computer behind our LAN w/ Linksys router. I would rather not use FTP for them to take it because I don't want compatibility issues coming up because they were modifying it at the same time. I would prefer a "mapped network share" feel to it so that when they save the file on their computer, it makes the save on my linux server. I have posted this other places and had suggestions such as "use ftp with ssh, and create a VPN, or use a Content Management system, or create a share with SAMBA" however, most of them were concerned with the security issue. I cannot understand this because its not really important information, I don't think that a hacker would be interested in a webpage file thats not complete, perhaps my bank account yes, but this data is not that important. However, if I'm wrong with the security issue then please tell me. So, what is the best way? Thanks!
This summer, myself and 2 others are creating a webpage. I want to make the file available to us all for designing purposes from a linux computer behind our LAN w/ Linksys router. I would rather not use FTP for them to take it because I don't want compatibility issues coming up because they were modifying it at the same time. I would prefer a "mapped network share" feel to it so that when they save the file on their computer, it makes the save on my linux server. I have posted this other places and had suggestions such as "use ftp with ssh, and create a VPN, or use a Content Management system, or create a share with SAMBA" however, most of them were concerned with the security issue. I cannot understand this because its not really important information, I don't think that a hacker would be interested in a webpage file thats not complete, perhaps my bank account yes, but this data is not that important. However, if I'm wrong with the security issue then please tell me. So, what is the best way? Thanks!
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There are some nice content management sys. prog's out there. I source forge has a ton. You have to sign out/sign in a file when you are done modifying it. That works well but I wanted to be able to have them simply map to the drive, perhaps with an internet samba share and do it that way. I suppose my second alternative would be to do what you said, are there any possibilities of doing it securely with some type of share?
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How do you think http://tikiwiki.sourceforge.net/ would work? I have been reading about it and it sounds nice, I suppose to can safely build the file here, have a small forum and mail for us to communicate with...sound good?
Thanks.
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Thanks.
V
It looks pretty good, I think I'll be playing with that later tonight!
Thanks ;)
Thanks ;)
I agree with what you already said, use some type of FTP or content management system. If you create your own management system (using PHP or PERL) you can create a system to notify when a file is being worked on. This way if someone else logged on to modify the same file, they would see that someone else is working on the file.
Similar to a check-in / check-out system.