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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: HFS Not Working

« on: May 28, 2015, 12:06:55 PM »

I'm using port 6881.

I don't want to re-engineer another solution using FTP and PHP. And I can't ask my users to use any specialist knowledge to upload and download because they don't have any nor can I ask them to make changes to their systems just to accommodate me.

The weird thing is that the whole HFS upload/download process works fine when I attach my Windows 7 laptop to the router via wifi. So it's got something to do with how the router is processing requests from other sources.

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: HFS Not Working

« on: May 27, 2015, 12:07:07 PM »

Thanks everyone for replying but I think I've forgotten to explain something.

I am using HFS to provide  a means where football league administrators can upload documents (to an HFS maintained uploads folder) which football club officers can download (from an HFS maintained downloads folder).
They are mainly forms used in the administration of the league so any HFS configuration has to assume that the uploaders (the league officers) will be using any sort of browser on any sort of device and the downloaders (the club officials) will be doing the same.
So anything that has to happen in terms of settings has to happen only on the Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to HFS settings and the pages within the website at leaguemanager.biz that offer the uploading/downloading links.
I can't be making changes to users' machines or asking them to.

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / HFS Not Working

« on: May 26, 2015, 05:57:11 PM »

I really need help with this and would pay a moderate! fee if necessary to get a solution.

I am running HFS 2.3e Build #293 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 platform. I had a static IP address and HFS worked fine.

I switched suppliers to BT who don't supply static IPs so I bought a noip subscription and configured HFS to work with that. Running in expert mode when the application makes a request to either download or upload files to/from HFS, the request is seen but HFS doesn't do anything and the requesting browser session eventually times out.

I've tried Chrome and IE.

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: HFS Sees the Request but doesn't Do Anything

« on: March 23, 2015, 11:14:30 AM »

All a bit baffling; it's working fine (again!) this morning.

Completely baffled.

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: HFS Sees the Request but doesn't Do Anything

« on: March 22, 2015, 12:53:42 PM »

Thanks for replying; I haven't re-downloaded HFS and I haven't made any changes to the template.

As far as I know because I am accessing HFS via a website I am not using the template?

BT is my ISP and the HFS set-up worked fine before I switched and also worked briefly after the switch.

I watch the HFS log and it seems to be serving pages to other website visitors without reporting problems or time-outs. All very strange.

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / HFS Sees the Request but doesn't Do Anything

« on: March 21, 2015, 04:22:38 PM »

I am running HFS 2.3 Build #289 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 platform. I had a static IP address and HFS worked fine.

I switched suppliers to BT who don't supply static IPs so I bought a noip subscription and configured HFS to work with that. Running in expert mode when the application makes a request to either download or upload files to/from HFS, the request is seen but HFS doesn't do anything and the requesting browser session eventually times out.

I've tried Chrome and IE.


This is the statement that tries to access the Upload folder <a class="menuButton" href="http://www.hsc.leaguemanager.biz:6881/" target="_blank">Upload</a> and this is the statement that tries to access the file URLS in the Downloads folder <a href="http://www.hsc.leaguemanager.biz:6881/Downloads/~files.lst?recursive" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:underline" title="Uploaded files URL">Uploaded files URLs</a>.

If anyone can help with this I would be very grateful.

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: Restricted Uploads Unrestricted Downloads

« on: July 30, 2013, 09:11:06 AM »

I seem to have fixed this by switching the virtual folder to be a real folder.

This changed the name from Downloads to Uploads so that I now had two folders both called Uploads.

I changed the renamed Downloads folder from its new name Uploads back to Downloads and it all seems to work.

Unless something comes out of the woodwork later on, I seem to have achieved what I want; a restricted access Uploads folder structure only those visitors with credentials can upload to and an unrestricted copy of that folder that anybody can download from. And because they are both "real" folders, anything uploaded to Uploads structure also appears in the Downloads structure.

The only thing I'm not clear on is whether I have to go through the copy to virtual, switch to real then rename process or whether I could just copy the original real folder structure to another real folder directly.

I am glad to have got to something that seems to work but it's a bit lonely on this forum; does anybody else read it? It seems a bit Marie Celeste like with all the crew gone.

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: Restricted Uploads Unrestricted Downloads

« on: July 29, 2013, 10:04:30 PM »

I would really appreciate someone replying to this post.

I am sure these problems are relatively straightforward and easily solved by someone who knows HFS better than I do.

 

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: Restricted Uploads Unrestricted Downloads - Update

« on: July 28, 2013, 09:52:53 PM »

As nobody replied   I plugged away on my own and made some progress.

I am running HFS on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server and what I did was create a real folder called Uploads and a virtual copy of that called Downloads. I did this by right clicking on the real folder name and copying it to a virtual folder which gave me Uploads (1). I then renamed that virtual folder to Downloads.

I specified no uploads to the virtual Downloads folder but with no restrictions on access which gave me the situation I wanted where only specified people could upload to the real Uploads folder provided they had the necessary credentials but anybody could download from its virtual clone, the Downloads folder.

So far, so good.

I could see the folders and their underlying structures. Each of them reported the sub folders of /documents, /forms and /pictures and both folders showed the same content.

Again, so far, so good.

I then used the template to visit the two folders using the URLs http://99.999.999.99.1000/Uploads/Forms and http://99.999.999.99.1000/Downloads/Forms and the Uploads folder correctly asked for credentials and the Downloads one didn't.

I used the template to upload a file to Uploads/Documents and it did it.

By now I am feeling really good (and a little smug.)

I should have known better because while I can see the uploaded file in the Uploads/Documents folder the Downloads/Documents folder shows no content. I seem somehow to have updated the real folder Uploads/Documents without updating its virtual clone Downloads/Documents and I can't for the life of me work out how I could have done that. It's clearly something to do with permissions and folder rights/properties but I can't find these. Logging in to HFS (by clicking the Login button) makes no difference.

On top of this when I log onto the server via Remote Desktop and go to the HFS screen I can no longer see the sub-folders; ie I can't expand the two folders Uploads and Downloads.

So I have 2 problems; how can I somehow differentially update a real folder and its virtual copy/clone and why can't I expand the folders I created and can see in the HFS left hand window so I can check their contents?

I am so near to getting the HFS configuration and functionality I want and it's so frustrating but, hopefully, someone can tell me what I am doing wrong?

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Restricted Uploads Unrestricted Downloads

« on: July 27, 2013, 06:02:16 PM »

Is it possible to configure a single set of folder (structure is Uploads/Documents; Uploads/Pictures; Uploads/Forms; ie 3 sub folders under the single folder called Uploads) so that only specified usernames/passwords can upload while anybody visiting the website can download the documents by clicking their HFS http address (included as a text hyperlink on a webpage)?

So uploaders would see the standard HFS page once they logged in with the UPLOAD button in the top right hand corner while visitors wanting to download would see just a text hyperlink pointing to the folder names and file names and be allowed to download the files by clicking on them in normal browser fashion? (Save As... etc)