Providing a public http upload script on your website with perl

• download this script as index.cgi

• copy it to ~/public_html/get/index.cgi

• run chmod a+rx ~/public_html/get/

• run chmod a+rx ~/public_html/get/index.cgi

• create a directory mkdir ~/public_upload/ writable only for you chmod go-rwx ~/public_upload. The script will run with the rights of your account (through apache's suexec mechanism).

• you can restrict the access to the script with a .htaccess file in ~/public_html/get/. Find more about this here or read on below.

• the files will now be uploaded to ~/public_upload/

• now you can access the script via http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~[USERNAME]/get

Protect The Upload Script With A Password

• Create a file .htaccess and put it into ~/public_html/get/

• File content should be the following:
  
  

  • AuthUserFile /home/<your_username>/.htpasswd
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Password Required"
    Require valid-user
    
    

  Replace <your_username> with your actual Tardis-login name.
  

• Run chmod 755 ~/public_html/get/.htaccess

• Create a file .htpasswd in your homedirectory. If you choose a different (sub-)folder, please change the path in the .htaccess file.

• Run chmod 755 ~/.htpasswd. If the .htpasswd file is in a different folder, change the chmod command accordingly.

• File content should be the following:
  
  <username>:<encrypted_password>
  

• On this website, you can create encrpyted passwords: http://www.4webhelp.net/us/password.php.
  Copy and paste the result into the .htpasswd file.

• These are all the required steps.