Apache HTTP Server

Lee H

Hi

Do I need server as my OS in order to run this

Not even sure if this is my best option but all I need to do is create a folder on my PC that I can put photos and video files in so my relative who lives in London can access them and see my children

So far I have installed it to my laptop as a test and configured the folder and edited a file to point to this new folder, instructions found here

Geek to Live: How to set up a personal home web server

So far I am stuck on setting a password

Also my laptop doesnt have a public IP it gets it from the wireless router

Any help or an easier solution for what I am trying to do would be

Thanks

Lee

Asif Dasl

Just use flickr, I think that has a feature to only share with friends...

Edit - probably can't use that for the video files though...

You could do it by FTP & FileZilla too...

exampasser

Does it need to be up all of the time?
You would be better off to use something such as SSH, if you don't have a spare box to install Linux on, you can install SSH server software on your PC or just power up a Linux virtual machine. A a good program for copying files over SSH is WinSCP WinSCP :: Free SFTP and FTP client for Windows

Bloogen

Doesn't sound like an Apacahe server is the best choice for you. Haven't used these but came across them after doing some unrelated research recently. Seems to be a good fit.
First choice: (based on feature list and your need)
ownCloud.org | Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way!

Second Choice
AjaXplorer

There are probably many other ways to get this done but I think those are interesting options. Let us know how it goes.

Asif Dasl

Bloogen wrote: »

Doesn't sound like an Apacahe server is the best choice for you. Haven't used these but came across them after doing some unrelated research recently. Seems to be a good fit.
First choice: (based on feature list and your need)
ownCloud.org | Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way!

Second Choice
AjaXplorer

There are probably many other ways to get this done but I think those are interesting options. Let us know how it goes.

I like the way you could run this from home on your own machine or a VPS, and control & monitor everything yourself. You could restrict access to a few hours or 24/7. Whatever way you want to do it...

Nice find! Thanks for sharing.

CodeBlox

Lee H wrote: »

Also my laptop doesnt have a public IP it gets it from the wireless router
Lee

If your wireless router supports port forwarding then that's an option.

ptilsen

DropBox. OwnCloud looks fine. There are literally more free services that offer this functionality than I can keep track of. Any sort of manual file transfer method or custom web page is an excessive solution.

Bloogen

Of course I forgot DropBox though a free account may be too limited for sharing large amounts of pictures. There's always a paid account or other Dropbox like services.

Lee H

Hi

Thanks for your help and advice

I tried Opera Unite which works quite well very easy to get started in seconds and your done. Problem I had is maybe I want to give my relative 200 pictures, they would need to download them individually as Opera gave no feature of being able to download directories or even RAR files

I looked at owncloud.org and I could see trial version was downloadable so this looks like paid for software

I downloaded ajaxexplorer and didnt have a clue what to do with it, lol I am new to this so I need something quite simple but also being able to copy entire folders

Thanks for your help

Lee

Asif Dasl

Yeah I guess Dropbox/SkyDrive, you are only talking a couple hundred MB at most for that... upload a ZIP file and it'll work with Windows XP upwards... you don't sound as if you want control over it so that would work fine...

SkyDrive limits files to 100Mb (5Gb limit) / DropBox limits files to 300Mb (2Gb limit - up to 16Gb if you pimp for them)

OwnCloud is open source

mattlee09

Use a private album on Flickr/Photobucket/'insert service here' for the photos, and upload the videos to YouTube as either private, or only visible via the direct link.

By far the best solution for what you want to do.