Apache Directory Listing, But Musn't Be Able To Download

[thavinci]

Ok, so the title might be confusing but this is what I would like to achieve. I would like to have Apache do the usual directory listing on a particalur folder, however, if any user actually tries to download anything it would be denied. In other words all I want is the files to be listed, yet to be undownloadable. I want to do this to show users content on a file server, yet I dont wan't them downloading the content via the web!

Regards

 

[quintessence]

Hello,

To deny download via web you can set for example:

# chmod 600 * in the document root of the web server.

 

[thavinci]

Thank you for the suggestion, but I wouldnt wan't to mess with file system permissions to achieve this as it would affect other applications. Also it isn't a single directory but rather a virtual direcotory setup like DFS in Windows mounting other folder via nullfs. So I wouldn't want to solve it in this fashion.

I did try using a php script, namely dirLIST_0.3.0 to try and achieve this.

 

[mix_room]

A dirty solution would be to export a directory listing to index.html
Perhaps do this hourly. The index would be a little old, but not so much.

# crontab -e

@hourly ls DIRECTORY > index.html

Otherwise, as you already suggested, you might try a PHP or Perl-script
http://perlmeme.org/faqs/file_io/directory_listing.html

 

[tingo]

Or perhaps a full web-based file manager (like Mollify) will have the features you need?
(Note: I haven't used Mollify, so I don't know if it supports "view, don't allow download").