Last update 04-Feb-2002
+Last update 09-Feb-2002
MBSE BBS Basic Installation
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ layout looks like this:/opt/mbse/english/txtfiles 0755 Default english ANSI files /opt/mbse/etc 0775 System configuration files /opt/mbse/fdb 0775 Files database -/opt/mbse/ftp 0755 Default FTP root +/opt/mbse/ftp/css 0755 Stylesheet for MBSE BBS pages. +/opt/mbse/ftp/pub 0755 Default FTP root for download areas. /opt/mbse/galego/macro 0755 N/A /opt/mbse/galego/menus 0755 Galego menu files /opt/mbse/galego/txtfiles 0755 Galego ANSI files @@ -60,13 +61,13 @@ layout looks like this:
/opt/mbse/var 0770 Var root /opt/mbse/var/badtic 0750 Bad TIC files /opt/mbse/var/bso 0750 Binkley Style Outbound directory -/opt/mbse/var/bso/inbound 0750 Protected inbound directory -/opt/mbse/var/bso/outbound 0750 Default outbound directory -/opt/mbse/var/bso/unknown 0750 Unprotected inbound directory +/opt/mbse/var/bso/outbound 0750 Default outbound for main aka +/opt/mbse/var/inbound 0750 Protected inbound directory /opt/mbse/var/mail 0770 JAM messagebase root /opt/mbse/var/msgs 0750 *.msgs netmail directory (not yet in use). /opt/mbse/var/nodelist 0750 Nodelists /opt/mbse/var/ticqueue 0750 Queue for TIC files +/opt/mbse/var/unknown 0750 Unprotected inbound directory
Don't use UMSDOS or SAMBA filesystems for the bbs, stick by the standard Linux diff --git a/html/misc/ftpserver.html b/html/misc/ftpserver.html index 7228339f..17c89358 100644 --- a/html/misc/ftpserver.html +++ b/html/misc/ftpserver.html @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
-Last update 27-Jan-2002
+Last update 09-Feb-2002
How to setup an FTP server to work with MBSE BBS.
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ In order to let MBSE BBS and your FTP server to both function together you must organize a special file structure. Note that even if you don't setup an FTP server you must still create a structure like this for the fidonet mailer, if you don't, mail and files will get lost! -Note that this description is written for wu-ftpd, on your distribution there +This description is written for ProFTPD, on your distribution there may be another ftpd installed. Don't use mbftpd yet! +Read the section for the webserver as well.
The filestructure I used is as follows:
@@ -31,21 +32,28 @@ may be another ftpd installed. Don't use mbftpd yet! +To let this work you need to change the default anonymous directory of the +ftp server to /opt/mbse/pub. As root, edit /etc/passwd with the vipw +command. Look for the entry of the ftp user and change his homedirectory to +/opt/mbse/ftp. You may also use the command usermod -d /opt/mbse/ftp ftp +to do the same. For a start the default configuration file for ProFTPD will do +fine. If you want to let users upload into the incoming directory, you need to +change /etc/proftpd.conf file to allow that. +If another DOS/Windows style mailer has access to your MBSE outbound you must set the DOS path and Unix path in mbsetup (1.4.12 and 1.4.13) to "m:" and "/opt/mbse". Note that to get @@ -64,22 +72,16 @@ users have mbsebbs as their shell and this shell is not in the file /etc/shells the ftp daemon will not let the bbs users in. So even your own bbs users must login as anonymous to get files from the ftp server.
-Note the following directory permissions MUST BE SET!!!!::: See also -the man pages for the DARPA ftpd server. +The following is a list of file permissions when using ProFTPD:
Directory owner group mode perms ------------------------------- ----- ----- ---- ---------- -/opt/mbse mbse bbs 0755 drwxr-xr-x -/opt/mbse/ftp root wheel 0555 dr-xr-xr-x -/opt/mbse/ftp/bin root wheel 0555 dr-xr-xr-x -/opt/mbse/ftp/bin/ls root bin 0111 ---x--x--x -/opt/mbse/ftp/etc root root 0555 dr-xr-xr-x -/opt/mbse/ftp/etc/passwd root root 0444 -r--r--r-- -/opt/mbse/ftp/etc/group root root 0444 -r--r--r-- -/opt/mbse/ftp/pub mbse bbs 0775 drwxrwxr-x -/opt/mbse/ftp/incoming ftp users 0755 drwxr-xr-x +/opt/mbse mbse bbs 0775 drwxrxxr-x +/opt/mbse/ftp root root 0755 drxxr-xr-x +/opt/mbse/ftp/pub mbse bbs 0755 drwxr-xr-x +/opt/mbse/ftp/incoming ftp ftp 0755 drwxr-xr-xNote that all subdirectories under ../pub also must be owned by mbse diff --git a/html/misc/webserver.html b/html/misc/webserver.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bc9be1e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/html/misc/webserver.html @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ + + + + + + + + + +Howto setup an webserver to work with MBSE BBS. + + + +++ + +Last update 09-Feb-2002
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+ +
How to setup an webserver to work with MBSE BBS.
++
Introduction
++To let a webserver work with MBSE BBS you must organize a special file +structure. +Note that even if you don't setup a webserver you must still create a +structure like this for the fidonet mailer, if you don't, +mail and files will get lost! +This description is written for Apache, +this is installed on most Linux and xxxBSD distributions. +For the directory structure, read the setup for +the FTP server. +
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Important settings in mbsetup.
++Screen 1.18: +
+1. Base path /opt/mbse/ftp/pub ++Screen 1.19: ++1. Docs root /var/www/htdocs +2. Link to ftp files +3. URL name http://www.mbse.ym ++The base ftp path is the default which mbse bbs installs. The Docs root for the +apache httpd server is different on each distribution, in this example it is set +for Slackware 8.0. Because the directory +/var/www/htdocs has nothing to do with /opt/mbse/ftp/pub we make an alias link +named files. For the URL name you must fill in the real internet name how +your bbs is reached. If someone types this in, he must get the index.html from +the directory /var/www/htdocs, the docs root. I just assume you have your http +server up and running. ++Now you can run the command mbfile index, this will create a main index +in the directory /opt/mbse/ftp/pub and additional index.html files in all your +download areas. +
+ +
Change Apache server configuration.
++As root edit your httpd.conf file, it is possible that you find it in +/etc/apache, but that depends on your distribution. In the section between +<IfModule mod_alias.c> and </IfModule> insert the following lines: +
+ # + # Alias for MBSE BBS download areas. + # + Alias /files/ /opt/mbse/ftp/pub/ + <Directory "/opt/mbse/ftp/pub"> + Options Indexes MultiViews + AllowOverride None + Order allow,deny + Allow from all + </Directory> + + # + # Alias to access the MBSE BBS documenatation + # + Alias /mbseman/ /opt/mbse/html/ + <Directory "/opt/mbse/html"> + Options Indexes MultiViews + AllowOverride None + Order allow,deny + Allow from all + </Directory> ++Then restart Apache with the command apachectl restart Now if you access +your webserver with for example http://www.mybbs.com/files/ you must be able to +browse the filelists. If you use http://www.mybbs.com/mbseman/ you must be able +to browse this documentation online. + ++
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