Customizing User Public Information Directories (Unix) - Sun Microsystems Netscape Enterprise Server Administrator's Manual

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To add an additional document directory you first need to choose the URL
prefix to map. Clients send this URL to the server when they want documents.
Next, you specify the directory to map those URLs to. Finally, you might want
to use an existing configuration style to specify how this directory should be
configured.
Unix: If you expect web publishing users to publish documents to a directory,
you need to set the Unix file permissions to give them write access to that
directory. You should also disable write permissions for directories you do not
want them to publish to.
To add additional document directories, use the Additional Document
Directories page in the Server Manager.
By default, the server has several additional document directories. They have
the following prefixes:
• /help
• /search-ui
• /webpub-ui
• /publisher
You should restrict access to these directories so that users cannot write to
them. A sample ACL for the /publisher directory would be:
Customizing User Public Information
Directories (Unix)
Sometimes users want to maintain their own web pages. You can configure
public information directories that let all the users on your server create home
pages and other documents without your intervention.
Another way to do this is to create a URL mapping to a central directory that all
of your users can modify.
deny (all) anyone;
allow (rxli) all;
allow (wd) privileged_user;

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