http access for ftp site

neilwatson has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

At first I thought this was a simple enough request. We have an ftp site that customers use to upload and download. We would like to offer http access to the same site and allow the customer to change their password. I thought this would be a common enough thing to do. However, searches here as well as Freshmeat and Google have turned up no such application.

Does such a thing exist? Preferably using Perl?

Neil Watson
watson-wilson.ca

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Re: http access for ftp site by cLive ;-) (Prior) on Oct 08, 2004 at 16:13 UTC
You will have to install an http server - Apache would be my recommendation. Then start looking for scripts to manipulate .htaccess password protection - there are many out there. That should be enough to get you started :) cLive ;-)	[reply]
Re: http access for ftp site by Fletch (Bishop) on Oct 08, 2004 at 16:18 UTC
"I've got this road that customers use to drive back and forth in their cars. We'd like to offer boat access using the same road . . ." HTTP and FTP are two completely different protocols needing completely different servers. As was said, install Apache. With the right configuration (and possibly some scripting) you may even can get it to coexist along with things your ftp daemon does like custom per-directory banners (look for `README.html` in the `mod_dir` documentation).	[reply]