File upload capability for web docs

[tmitchell]

After discussing with Bob, we came to the conclusion that the best way to handle the MapGuide and FDO massive doc folders is to have some way of being able to upload all these mega files to the www.osgeo.org server - instead of the currently annoying task of managing them in SVN.

His team would only need access to one folder via something like WebDav (or ftp) to be able to upload their computer generated docs for their html api browser. I thought of WebDav because it will already be included in Apache and is really easy to setup and could optionally use our LDAP.

This document management issue exists for others too, not just MapGuide and FDO, but some of the committees have many large files scattered about that are not good to manage through simplistic web forms. So a general solution built on LDAP would be ideal.

Any thoughts? What do others think?

[tmitchell]

Here is a brief howto on WebDAV and LDAP: ​http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO.html I can give it a try setting it up if others are busy.

[sbarnes]

Tyler, i can set this up. Do you know what the expected url to these files should be?

shawn

[tmitchell]

Okay, thanks Shawn. As long as we can get access to our main web files folder we'll be good:

/var/www/html/files/...

I've been creating committee level folders in there for each group as required i.e.

/var/www/html/files/viscom

We could have project level ones like these to start:

/var/www/html/files/mapguide /var/www/html/files/fdo ...

If possible to use LDAP in these project level folders, that'd be great.

Thanks again!