Webshare

Webshare for SME Server

Maintainer

Darrel May (Contrib)

Description

• Webshare is an addon for SME Server that provides secure web accessible file and directory storage.
• Create and set permissions for each share via Server-manager GUI.
• Can handle many filetypes in the webbrowser.

Step-by-step silly HowTo for installation of Webshare on a fresh SMEserver 7.1.3.

It reflects the experiences I've had during install and are probably not always applicable.

It's intended for Linux-newbies.

Check latest releases at http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/7.x/

Replace filenames if you use other versions.

I don't use smedev for this install as advised by dmay

Installation

1. Log in (with username root) to the SMEserver console.

2. Download perl-Apache-Htpasswd (needed by package smeserver-webshare)

wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/7.x/perl-Apache-Htpasswd-1.5.9-1.1.el3.rf.noarch.rpm

3. Install perl-Apache-Htpasswd

yum localinstall perl-Apache-Htpasswd-1.5.9-1.1.el3.rf.noarch.rpm

You will get a y/N-question, answer y if it looks fine.

Instructions at the end of previous installation advices the following commands:
"signal-event post-upgrade" and "signal-event reboot"
But you can ignore that and move on

4. Download smeserver-webshare

wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/7.x/smeserver-webshare-1.0.0-8dmay.noarch.rpm

5. Install smeserver-webshare

yum localinstall smeserver-webshare-1.0.0-8dmay.noarch.rpm

You will get a y/N-question, answer y if it looks fine.

6. Instructions at the end of previous installation advices the following commands:
signal-event post-upgrade and signal-event reboot
but you can skip that (not necessary) and move on.

7. Open your webbrowser and go to the server-manager.
Under Collaboration there should be a new line named "Webshare".

Check installed version

yum info installed smeserver-webshare
yum info installed perl-Apache-Htpasswd

Uninstall

yum remove smeserver-webshare
yum remove perl-Apache-Htpasswd

Adjusting upload file size

Default php settings in sme server will severely limit the file upload size.

These can be adjusted by db commands, see http://wiki.contribs.org/index.php?title=SME_Server:Documentation:Technical_Manual:Booklet#Php

To see the default settings do

config show php

The following commands will set a 50Mb file upload size.

As this includes system overheads, you should specify a value slightly larger than the maximum file size you wish to upload.

db configuration setprop php MaxExecutionTime 3600
db configuration setprop php MemoryLimit 50M
db configuration setprop php PostMaxSize 50M
db configuration setprop php UploadMaxFilesize 50M
expand-template /etc/php.ini
/etc/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

Additional information

• Announcement: SME Server 7.x Contribs

• Add more than four uploads.

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-webshare component or use this link .

Tested software versions

Host: SMEserver v7.1 with update 3 (7.1.3)

Installed: perl-Apache-Htpasswd.noarch 0:1.5.9-1.1.el3.rf

Installed: smeserver-webshare.noarch 0:1.0.0-8dmay

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