The WWW facility for File Transfer

Ray Ballisti, last update: 10th June 2008

for the project: "Red Blood Cells"

Project leader: Dr. Jürg Fröhlich
Web Maintainer: Christian Beyer
 

Content:

  1. The web Site for the project "Red Blood Cells"
  2. Protected: access with password only
  3. Uploading
  4. Downloading
  5. Add or delete trusted persons

1-The web Site for the project "Red Blood Cells"

The public access web page for this project is on URL:
http://www.ifh.ee.ethz.ch/~rbcells/

The "index.html" file is in the directory:
   /home/rbcells/public_html
In this directory you will have to put the "HTML" code files for this site.

2-Protected: access with password only

    3-How to upload a file

      Go to the URL:
      https:///www.ifh.ee.ethz.ch/~rbcells/put
      You will be asked to enter your user_name and password
      and after it you will be asked to choose the file to be uploaded
      and the the directory in which it should be stored.

      PLEASE NOTE:
      Once you get granted access to this site, it will last till you close the browser.
      i.e. you can can back and upload another file even after some time.
      You can cancel the authenticated session in the following way (for firefox):
      In the pull_down menu "Tools" click on "Clear Private Data"
      and on the following small window which appears select only "Authenticated Sessions"
      and then click on "Clear Private data Now".
      If you want to access the protected site again, you will be asked to enter your password.

    4-How to download a file

5-Add or delete trusted persons

    To add people to the "trustee list" run the following command:

    htpasswd   ~/.httpusers   <user_name>


    Where the string "<user_name>" must be substituted with the user name that you want to add.
    The system will then ask you to enter the corresponding password twice.
    Please note: users cannot change their password.

    To delete a name from the list you will have to edit the file ~/.httpusers and delete the line containing the name in question.

    To change the password for a user: delete the user from the list and add it again with the new password.