[ILUG] Upload to Apache

[Caolan McNamara]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:01:08AM +0100, Drew Shiel wrote:
> 
>   There's some debate going on here at the minute about software
>   to be used for the intranet. 
> 
>   The main proposal is a piece of Windows software which has the
>   fancy extra of allowing users on the intranet to upload documents
>   to the server through a point-and-click interface.
> 
>   For a variety of reasons, I don't like this software, and am
>   looking for a counter proposal.
> 
>   Can someone recommend software, be it a perl script, or a whole 
>   product, or whatever, that:
> 
>   * Allows unskilled users to upload documents
>   * Runs on Linux and/or Solaris
>   * Plays nice with Apache
>   * Is fairly idiot proof - preferably at both ends, user and admin. :)

You can use a simple webpage with a little perl cgi to do the
trick. I used "File Upload" from http://www.terminalp.com/scripts/
for ages on http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/libwmf-Demo.html
to provide a wmf to gif converter, easy to upload and file with it.

Anyone can upload with a webbrowser
Therefore user end works everywhere, server is simple perl cgi so
works with apache on anything. Easy peasy.

C.
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