COP3832, Assignment 4

Due 11/26 at the start of class.

Hand in and upload a copy of access.conf. Make all changes in the access.conf file, not in srm.conf. Be sure your user name and port is on the paper.

There is an extra credit portion that is worth 2 points. There is only extra credit if you implement all of the extra credit parts. Extra credit must be done on time.

You are to configure your server as follows

Create three subdirectories of COP3832/data
- hw4
- links
- include
Add a .3832access file to the hw4 directory. Limit access to my ip addresses and the address you are working from. Create it as you have in the past.
Add a .3832access file to the links directory. Limit access to my ip addresses and the address you are working from. Create it as you have in the past.
In the include directory, create two files that can be included as HTML in other documents. These should not be complete HTML pages, just fragments of HTML code
- header.html - This will contain a header for your web site. Include your name.
- footer.html - This will include a footer for your web site. Include a list of links to the other directories on your server for this homework.
In the hw4 directory, create two files named page1.shtml and page2.shtml.
- Create some individual content for each page, and include header.html and footer.html using server side include commands.
- Include the date that each file was last modified. Change the format of the date for each file using a server side include file.
- Copy the file to the links directory
  cp page1.shtml ../links cp page2.shtml ../links
(Only for extra credit) In the hw4 directory, create a file named page.handler.
- Create some content for the page.
- Do not include any SSI commands.
- Do not include the HTML code from either header.html nor footer.html.
- Copy the file to the links directory.
Copy one of your cgi scripts that works from the cgi-bin directory into the hw4 directory. Also copy it to the links directory.
Create a link in the hw4 directory to your errors directory, replace dlette07 with your user name. Do not change tdowne01.
ln -s /aul/homes/dlette07/COP3832/server/errors/ ownlink
Create a link in the hw4 directory to my student personal directory
ln -s /aul/homes/tdowne01/COP3832/personal/ otherlink
Change to the links directory and create the same two links again, replace delette07 with your user name. Do not change tdowne01.
cd ../links
ln -s /aul/homes/dlette07/COP3832/server/errors/ ownlink
ln -s /aul/homes/tdowne01/COP3832/personal/ otherlink
Create the following Aliases in srm.conf
- An alias named /ssi to your hw4 directory
- An alias named /simple to your hw4 directory
- An alias named /all to your hw4 directory
- An alias named /cgi to your hw4 directory
- An alias named /none to your hw4 directory
- (Only for extra credit) An alias named /handler to your hw4 directory
- An alias named /errors to your COP3832/server/errors directory
In access.conf, use the Location directive to allow the following features in certain directories. Make server side includes for .shtml files and cgi scripting for .cgi files available for the entire document root, but only enable them as described below. Be sure to turn off symbolic links in the document root, so that symbolic links only work in the link directory.
- ssi: allow fancy indexing and server side includes
- all: allow fancy indexing and all options
- simple: allow simple indexing
- cgi: allow fancy indexing and execution of CGI scripts
- none: allow no options, not even indexes
- (Only for extra credit) handler: allow fancy indexing and allow files with the extension handler to have the text from header.html inserted into the file after the <BODY> tag, and have the text from footer.html inserted before the </BODY> tage. You may assume that the <BODY> tag is on a line by itself, and that the </BODY> tag is on a line by itself.
- The <Location> directive ignores any directives that effect symbolic links (since they are already a type of symbolic link). Once symbolic links are on for a physical directory, they cannot be turned off in a <Location> directive.
In access.conf, use the Directory directive to do the following for the links directory
- allow fancy indexing
- follow symbolic links if the owners match
- change the icon for .shtml files to a different one of your choice from the /icons directory (/depot/http/icons/)
- change the icon for .cgi files to a different one of your choice from the /icons directory (/depot/http/icons/)
- change the icon for directories to a different one of your choice from the /icons directory (/depot/http/icons/)
- change the icon for the parent directory to a different one of your choice from the /icons directory (/depot/http/icons/)
In the errors directory, create html files for the following errors. Be creative, but the files should load quickly!
- 403 Forbidden
- 404 Not Found
- 500 Internal Server Error
Change the appropriate configuration file so that the above error messages are displayed for the appropriate errors.
Create a 3832.html file in your personal directory that can be viewed by other web servers. Try it out on my student server: mongoose.aul.fiu.edu:65432. Do not allow cgi scripting, nor the exec command from server side includes in user directories.
Create an 3832.html file in your data directory that will have the following
- A link to a file that will create a 403 error. This is not a link to the file in the errors directory, but a link to a file in your data directory that will generate a 403 error.
- A link to a file that will create a 404 error. This is not a link to the file in the errors directory, but a link to a file in your data directory that will generate a 404 error.
- A link to a file that will create a 500 error. This is not a link to the file in the errors directory, but a link to a file in your data directory that will generate a 500 error.
- A link to /simple
- A link to /ssi
- A link to /cgi
- A link to /all
- A link to /none
- (Only for extra credit) A link to /handler
- A link to /links
- A link to the personal page for ~tdowne01

Use the 3832.html to investigate what happens when you try to open each file in each directory. Notice where ssi commands work, cgi commands work, and links work. Notice how the icons change in the /links directory. Notice when fancyindexing works. Have fun.

Check my student server for an example of what the assignment looks like: mongoose.aul.fiu.edu:65432