[mfiske]

Hello there:

This is probably a kinda dumb question but I was just wondering if there's any easy way of getting a listing of my mp3s to the Personal Web Server without physically copying/ moving them to my 'Sites' folder. Anyone? I've tried putting an alias of my 'Music' folder there (and even tried putting aliases of each mp3 there), with no success...

thank you!

[Millennium]

It can be done, but we need more information. What MP3 player are you using?

[mfiske]

iTunes. Thanks for helping!

[mrwalker]

Hi there,

You should be able to do this by adding a few lines to your httpd.conf file. To do this you'll need to issue a few terminal commands:

Open a new terminal & type

<pre>cd /etc/httpd/
sudo cp httpd.conf httpd.conf.before_music
sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf</pre>

Type your password when asked

Use Ctrl-Y to page to the line that reads <pre>&lt;Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents"&gt;</pre>
after the following <pre>&lt;/Directory&gt;</pre> line, insert the following, replacing 'mrwalker' with your OS X short username:

<pre>
Alias /music "/Users/mrwalker/Music/"

&lt;Directory "/Users/mrwalker/Music/"&gt;
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
&lt;/Directory&gt;
</pre>
Then save the file with Ctrl-O, Enter. Exit the pico editor with Ctrl-X.

Finally, restart apache with <pre>sudo apachectl restart</pre>

Your music should be accesible at http://127.0.0.1/music

-mrwalker

[ThisGuy]

Originally posted by mrwalker:
Hi there,

You should be able to do this by adding a few lines to your httpd.conf file. To do this you'll need to issue a few terminal commands:

Open a new terminal & type

<pre>cd /etc/httpd/
sudo cp httpd.conf httpd.conf.before_music
sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf</pre>

Type your password when asked

Use Ctrl-Y to page to the line that reads <pre>&lt;Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents"&gt;</pre>
after the following <pre>&lt;/Directory&gt;</pre> line, insert the following, replacing 'mrwalker' with your OS X short username:

<pre>
Alias /music "/Users/mrwalker/Music/"

&lt;Directory "/Users/mrwalker/Music/"&gt;
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
&lt;/Directory&gt;
</pre>
Then save the file with Ctrl-O, Enter. Exit the pico editor with Ctrl-X.

Finally, restart apache with <pre>sudo apachectl restart</pre>

Your music should be accesible at http://127.0.0.1/music

-mrwalker

very helpful!