JRS: In article <41***********************@news.zen.co.uk>, dated Fri,
31 Dec 2004 18:42:32, seen in news:comp.infosystems.
www.authoring.html,
Michael Rozdoba <mr**@nowhere.invalid> posted :
Dr John Stockton wrote:
Assuming that your colleague had an equivalent class of ISP service to
mine, which is no more than highly probable, then he will not have had
access to his server other than for up- and down- load.
That is all that is required, in terms of interaction with the server,
in order to upload a suitable .htaccess file (at least in respect of
Apache which is all that I'm familiar with).
Accepted; but, unless I and others have totally misunderstood the
situation, users of this class cannot install such controls - I don't
know at which stage it fails : .xxxx files may be refused, for instance.
I meant "up- and down- load of files such as might be served to a Web
browser, and of a couple of named files that Demon write log-type
material in"; not transfer of administrative-policy data.
Are you saying Demon have a policy of configuring their servers to
ignore Redirect directives in customers' .htaccess files (or equivalent)?
No, I've no knowledge of how they deal with the situation.
Re Redirection & Apache, see
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_alias.html
Is it possible you're mistakenly assuming to make any server
configuration change, one must have direct privileged access to the
primary config files or be on first name terms with the sys admin?
That depends on what you mean. If you mean "to make, on any server, a
configuration change", then I'm not. But if you mean "to make, on the
system that serves my site, a configuration change", then I merely doubt
whether what you suggest would even be sufficient - Demon's servers may
well be configured in part by code changes, in which case one would need
to deal with more than a routine sysadmin.
I don't recall whether they use any form of Apache; ISTR that there is
at least some probable customisation, so that the personal-root
directories of many sites can be accessed efficiently - my own is I
think down a path-fragment of /m/e/r/, though I never enter that
substring myself, and nor do my readers. OTOH, AFAIK, that may be SOP.
I do believe that Demon have indicated that, by policy, a user cannot
control the system in such a manner; and that they have felt no need to
explain the technical details of what prevents it. If you want to know
more, ask in the appropriate Demon newsgroup.
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