How do I make a simple public read-only WebDAV server with SabreDAV? - vlc
I recently began looking into WebDAV, as I found it to be an option for letting me play a Blu-ray folder remotely - i.e. without requiring the viewer to download the whole 24gb ISO first.
Add a WebDAV source in Kodi v18 to a Blu-ray folder - and it actually plays! Very awesome.
The server can also be mounted on Windows with
net use m: http://example.com/webdavfolder/
or in Linux with
sudo mount -t davfs http://example.com/webdavfolder/ /mnt/mywebdav
-and should then (in theory) play with any software media players that supports Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J), such as PowerDVD and VLC.
vlc bluray:///mnt/mywebdav --bluray-menu
PowerDVD.exe AUTOPLAY BD m:
(Unless of course time-out values has been set too low, which seems to be the case for VLC at the moment).
Anyway, all this is great, except I can't figure out how to make my WebDAV server read-only. Currently anyone can delete files as they wish, and that's of course not optimal.
So far I've only experimented with SabreDAV, because afaik that's the only option I have if I want to keep using my existing webhost. Trying with very minimal setups, because I've read that minimal setups should default to a read-only solution. It just doesn't seem to happen.
I initially used the setup from http://sabre.io/dav/gettingstarted/ and tried removing some lines. Also tried calling chmod 0444 MainFolder -R on the webserver. And I can see that everything does get a read-only attribute. But it changes nothing. It's still possible to delete whatever I want. :-(
What am I missing?
Maybe I'm using the wrong technology for what I want to do? Is there some other/better way of offering a Blu-ray folder for remote viewing? (One that includes the whole experience - i.e. full Java menus etc).
I should probably mention that all of this is of course perfectly legal. It is my own Blu-ray project - not copyright material.
Also: Difficult to decide if this belongs on StackOverflow or SuperUser. I ended up posting it on StackOverflow because SabreDAV is about coding, and because there's no sabredav tag on SuperUser.
You have two options:
Create your own file/directory classes for sabre/dav that simply throw an error when trying to delete. You can basically start with a copy of Sabre\DAV\FS\Directory and Sabre\DAV\FS\File and change the methods that do writing.
Since you're considering just using linux file permissions, really the key thing you are missing is that that 'deleting' is not controlled on the file or directory you're trying to delete. To delete a file or directory in unix, all you need is write permissions on the parent directory. However, I wouldn't recommend going this route as doing this will just cause a weird error in sabre/dav, which might leave clients in a confused state. It would result in a 500 error, not the expected 403 error.
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Electron does not run on shared folder
C:\share is shared folder. C:\share\electron-v13.0.1-win32-x64, \\192.168.1.10\share\electron-v13.0.1-win32-x64 and Z:\electron-v13.0.1-win32-x64 are same folder. Electron app is launched correctly when I execute C:\share\electron-v13.0.1-win32-x64\electron.exe command. However, electron app is not launched correctly when I execute Z:\electron-v13.0.1-win32-x64\electron.exe command. According to the task manager, electron processes are running. However, electron's window is not shown. Can electron run correctly on shared folder?
Should be safer to use it locally (from the C:\share). The mapped drives behave very differently compared to local filesystem. And their implementations can differ in their settings as well: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Time_Synchronisation https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/issue-with-modified-timestamps-on-windows-file-copy.82649/ https://help.2brightsparks.com/support/solutions/articles/43000335953-the-last-modification-date-and-time-are-wrong If I understand you are just mapping back your own shared folder, and overall the Windows server cofigurations felt to me more consistent, however the protocol changed over the time as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block I do not understand the network sharing protocols well to give you exact answer why you have the problem, but I know enough to tell you that the mounted shared folders are not like your own local filesystem. In many cases the differences do not matter and it gives great user expierence, but in some cases these minute differences break things in misterious ways, even if they are mapped/mounted almost like a regular/local drive. This is not exclusive problem to Electron. And that is a problem with a lot of things through SMB (mainly binaries/tools), the shared folder might be running a different filesystem, different permission and privileges (or run a completely different structure of permissions underneath if it's a completely different filesystem). Remote folders might have issues with inotify getting events on file updates, might miss changed file (like touch on Linux is meant to update date on the file), so through shared folder the date updates might be delayed/rounded. I think at one point even Makefiles were misbehaving as it was depending on the access-date to work the way it would locally. Other problem with tools is the sharability, can it handle run multiple instances from the same location? Is it saving something into a ./tmp or some other file which could conflict with other user running it at the same time? Overall with shares I tend to use them for data (and few times had issues with them as well), but have shared remotely applications only if they are known to not cause troubles.
Found This Hack in my web server php files
How did i get them and what can i do to avoid this in the future?
#8f4d8e#
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#/8f4d8e#
It seems to be redirecting to or injecting content from absolutegift dot com, a malware distributor. Somebody uploaded it to your server. This person (or bot) may have managed to get your password or he may have used an exploit. Change your passwords, make sure all user input (including uploads) is validated. Make sure you have a firewall running (I recommend csf) and scan your server for rootkits.
Contact your hosting provider and notify them of the issue. This is very important I've shutdown plenty of legit websites because they were compromised and the owner lost all their data. If you are using a CMS such as Drupal, Wordpress, etc. etc. Make sure you upgrade and change admin passwords. If you have any plugins, make sure they are upgraded. If you have no CMS, change your FTP & control panel passwords. As for fixing the problem. If you are using a CMS, an in-place upgrade should replace all the files. If not, you can download all your files and use a word-processor like Notepad++ to do a find-and-replace throughout the directory. Also, your hosting provider might be able to restore from backup, or at least have some experience in fixing it. To prevent it, don't use a CMS and learn some web security. Possibly hire a pentester.
this happened to me as well on an old site running Drupal 5. What I did is download the site and compared it with a clean copy of the codebase using meld (a graphical diff tool for linux). I found that there was a file called god.php that was placed in one of the subdirectories and contained a php script which called R57. It's really scary what this thing can do. Many of my files were infected with something like: <?php #8f4d8e# ... #/8f4d8e# ?> I cleaned this up manually a few times but kept being hacked until I removed the "god.php" file. I assume it might be called differently on your system. If you have SSH access to the server go to your document root and search for all files containing the string: grep -R "#8f4d8e#" . You could also look for your version of the god.php file... look for traces of R57, for example by issuing: grep -R "R57" . Mine had a big ASCII art drawing of a bug at the beginning of the file. I'm not sure how I got it but there were a list of bad things: un-updated very old version of Drupal, PHP4 with register_globals on, shared hosting (and probably a lousy company). What I did is move the cleaned up site to another hosting company with PHP 5 and changed all passwords: drupal, ftp, mysql etc.
Where do I put the files I want to be displayed on my webpage on my webhost?
So I just finished the railstutorial.org twitter clone example and I want to put it online with my web hosting provider bluehost. Right now all I have is a file called sample_app with all of the rails stuff in it. And it works fine when I visit it on localhost:3000. So I go to my bluehost file manager and there are 9 different folders, like public_html, public_ftp, rails_apps, www, tmp, access_logs, ect. Ive uploaded sample_app into this overall directory and into the public_html directory itself. But when I visit my website it just displays the html in a default.html file in the public_html directory. What exactly is telling my hosting service to use public_html/default.html of any of the hundereds of different files and folders that are in other places on my server space? How do I find this thing and tell it to instead use sample_app or public_html/sample_app and then process everything in that to display my rails application? Ive tried using bluehost support and they emailed me and said this would be accomplished by creating a symlink which links ~/rails_apps/NinetyNine/public to ~/public_html. I have no idea how to do this and the guides I find online all tell me to enter a series of commands. I dont know whether to do this in a terminal on my ubuntu system or some command prompt that bluehost provides. If it is at a terminal on my system which directory should I be in? any attempts I have made on my system have resulted in a no such file or directory error. When I asked bluehost to explain this they said that this was outside of the scope of their support and had to do with web development not hosting. It struck me as odd that they were unwilling to explain their own response to my problem but whatever. If anyone of you could help me or point me in the right direction I would very much appreciate it. Thank you
What is telling my hosting service to use public_html/default.html ? That would be a setting the web server configuration, probably Apache. In Apache's case, the public_html directory is usually enabled with the UserDir directive. The default.html, is also an Apache configuration, DirectoryIndex. Answering these because you asked: but typically, the global Apache configuration is maintained by your provider (though you usually have some means to customize parts of it). Create the symlink from public_html to They like gave you a command like (maybe not exactly) $ ln -s ~/rails_apps/NinetyNine/public public_html That is something that is intended to be run on your webhost, from a command prompt, at the top of your home directory. Look for docs on bluehost for finding out how to get SSH shell access. That's where you'll enter the command. More generally, however, you want to make sure you read the docs on how your provider wants you to upload applications. Bluehost seems to have very nice docs here: https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/rails Why your hosting provided said it was out of scope. You're a beginner, and that's officially OK. Welcome! But if you asked them a question like "Do I enter these commands on my computer or yours", they are definitely going to politely respond that this out of scope; meaning -- "We can't hand-hold you through this". If you ran a gas station and someone asked you how to use the pump, you'd tell them. But if they then asked "OK but do I put the gas in my car or yours?" you'd be reluctant to answer, because there's some fundamental missing. So how do I get more pointers, directions on this stuff? Lots of approaches. By the far the best is to do as much stuff as you can on your own computer. In your case, you could easily set up your own Apache (Macs and Linux frequently ship with it - readily installable on Windows), and that would clear up a lot of the conceptual issues. Good luck!
How to delete a file that is using by windows?
Is there any way to delete a file when its using by any program or other process in windows? I searched and found this 2 ways: 1- using RunOnce key in Registry; I'm not gonna use this because i dont want to wait for windows restart or anything else... prefer to do it ontime! 2- using the way declared in this page: http://www.delphipages.com/forum/showthread.php?t=201190 the problem here is its useful under NT windows, i need a way works on all Windowses! Thank you.
the problem here is its useful under NT windows, i need a way works on all Windowses! All modern desktop Windowses (XP, Vista, 7) are also NT. Do you really need to work with NT<4 or Win98? Or even Win CE/Mobile/Phone? Probably not. If you need to delete an open file straight away, about the only thing you can do is attach to each process using debugger privileges, see if it has any handles open on the file, and if so close them underneath it. You can do this the manual way using eg Process Explorer. Many applications won't react well to having their files closed on them; expect them to exception out when they try to do something with the dead handle. Unfortunately there is no option in Windows to have Unix-style files that can exist attached to a file handle independently of being stored under a filename on disc.
You cant delete a file when someone is using it. No matter how hard you try, windows will not let you. It can work with some files, but in general it does not work. What you can try is postpone the deletion, when no one is using the file. You can: 1 - use RunOnce, but you dont want that. 2 - Wait in a loop, trying to delete the file. Pseudo code: DeleteFile Check if you was able to delete or if file still exists. if you are able to delete, then exit loop. That is the best you can do, and what i could remeber.
Try MoveFileEx with MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT flag. Will postpone move or delete action until reboot. Edit: If you don't whant to restart the only option is to close those handles. ProcessExplorer does that and works all the time and I have not seen any process to crash. See more info about enumeration handles in a process at http://www.codeguru.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-176997.html. But keep in mint that you should enumerate all processes in the system and behave different on Vista+ (you need to be elevated)
Your files are most likely locked because some process has a handle open to them. That is the most common reason for the Access denied result when deleting or moving a file. A really blunt way is to close that handle. Then Handles tool from SysInternals (you can download the sources too) can do that for you: I have been successfully using that. Note 1: You need administrative privileges to use it. Note 2: Closing a handle from another process is considered very rude, and can make that process unstable.
Unable to understand the basic PATHs at root
I trying to put my Mac's data in order. I have many rc-files at my root such as .vimrc, .srceenrc and .bashrc. I would like to put these files to the specific folders such as .vimrc and .screenrc to ~/bin/coding and .bashrc then again to ~/bin/shells. How can you determine where these rc-files must be?
Seriously, you should leave them where they are. Applications will be looking for them in specific locations (probably your $HOME directory which is not root, by the way, or shouldn't be). This is a very old UNIX convention that you should attempt to change only if you fully understand the consequences. Not meaning to sound condescending but your error in naming your home directory as your root directory seems to indicate your knowledge level of how it all works is less than it should be to understand those consequences (apologies if that offends you, I agonized over the best way to say it - what I mean is that you should tread carefully). If you move them, you will have to ensure you run the applications that use them with their paths fully specified, and some applications may not let you do that. They all start with "." so that they're hidden to the normal ls commands and, if you're using a graphical file browser, there should be a way to hide them there as well (such as the Gnome File Manager CTRL-H).
Configuration of a program is both defined at system-level and user-level, you can tweak the user-level one, which resides in your home, to help you in what you need. No need to group them in subfolders as you said: leaving them in your home (not root) is following the convention everybody uses, rc-files usually stay there after the program has been uninstalled, so if some day you make a fresh install you'll find the application configured as you left it. Also, by leaving them in your home, you can bring your own home folder to another system and have the environment set as you like it.