Add shares folder to built-in web server

Summary:

Add shares folder to built-in web server, with password protection

Add shares folder to built-in web server

ishbellnas 06 Jun 2008 05:51

Add shares to built-in lighthttpd server

Preconditions

• sshd enabled
• optware installed

1 make shares fiolders
su
mkdir /usr/www/lib/shares
ln -s TO_SHARE_DIR /usr/www/lib/shares/

2. Install htpasswd tool
download expat file expat-2.0.1.tar.gz from http://expat.sourceforge.net/

for eaxmple, directly get it from
wget http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz

tar zxvf expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
cd expat-2.0.1
./configure
make buildlib
make installlib

install appache etc, as we need htpasswd
ipkg install apache apache-manual php-apache

3 create htppasswd password
htpasswd -c /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd-htpasswd.user shareuser

type and confirm password

4 modify /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

change
alias.url = ( "/auth" => "/usr/www/lib")

to

alias.url = ( "/auth" => "/usr/www/lib",
"/shares" => "/usr/www/lib/shares" )

AND ADD this

$HTTP["url"] == "/shares/" {
auth.backend = "htpasswd"
auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd-htpasswd.user"
auth.require = ("/shares" => (
"method" => "basic",
"realm" => "share Club",
"require" => "valid-user"
))
}

5 reload or restart lighttpd
/etc/init.d/lighttpd.sh reload

6. open your web browser and point to
http://<MYBOOKWORLD>/shares
it will pop up a window for user and password
You are on flight!!

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Re: Add shares folder to built-in web server

ralfs_k 06 Jun 2008 07:40

i'm using mbwe 500gb version and having problems with setting up:
have optware and sshd

…
[root@OFFICE expat-2.0.1]# ./configure
checking build system type… armv5tejl-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type… armv5tejl-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc… no
checking for cc… no
checking for cc… no
checking for cl… no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See ‘config.log’ for more details.

Last edited on 06 Jun 2008 07:54 by ralfs_k Show more

Re: Add shares folder to built-in web server

alephsmith 06 Jun 2008 10:05

You have the newer firmware which no longer has a functioning compiler. Search the forum for gcc to find out how to get it back.

You are missing a functioning compiler because you are on the newer firmware. But you're in luck cause you shouldn't need to compile anything.
I dont know why you need expat but it is in the optware feeds:

[root@MyBookWorld ~]# ipkg list | grep expat
expat - 2.0.1-1 - XML Parser library

Also you should not need to install apache just to get htpasswd, you can enter you passwd line using any old text editor.

Re: Add shares folder to built-in web server

chorlton 06 Jun 2008 10:09

You can skip the whole installing htpasswd step AND get encrypted password communication by using htdigest rather than htpasswd. The setup described above submits hashed passwords in the clear and is susceptible to snooping.

Checkout the following link

I use the md5sum method described which is already on the MyBook to generate password hashes, and my lighttpd.conf contains

auth.backend = "htdigest"
auth.backend.htdigest.userfile = "/var/private/lighttpd.htdigest.user"
auth.require = ( "/shares" =>
(
"method" => "digest",
"realm" => "share club",
"require" => "valid-user"
)
)

It's just that little bit more secure if you want to access your server from outside your home network.