Re: [AVFS] avfs in web server

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Daniel Bengtsson wrote:
> I tried to set up avfs for my web server with the purpose of being able to  
> download individual files from zip archives. However I just get 404 when I  
> try to access the .avfs directory. In the bash shell it works fine. I used  
> mountavfs with the user that is running the web server first.
> 
> But I see if I ls -la the users home directory with another user I see  
> this:
> 
> drwxrwxr-x  5 root     www-data  122 2010-10-20 12:02 .
> drwxr-xr-x 15 root     root      151 2010-02-12 22:36 ..
> ??????????  ? ?        ?           ?                ? .avfs
> 
> Any ideas why it's not working ?

Try adding the "-oallow_other" option to avfsd in the startup script.

Note, unlike web servers avfsd does not provide any additional
security, so with the "allow_other" option all users will be able to
read/write files with the credentials of the user who started the avfs
daemon.  Because of this it is *very strongly* discouraged to run
avfsd as root with "allow_other".

Thanks,
Miklos

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