Share Spreadsheet via the Web?

[Guest]

I would like to place an Excel spreadsheet in a folder on my Apache based
website.

Read/Write permission:
I would like for certain people (those who know the proper
username/password) to be able to open the file with their copy of Excel,
make changes and save the changes back to the website. It would be best if
these folks could not delete the file.

Read Only permission:
I would also like for other people (those who know a different
username/password) to be able to open the file with their copy of Excel,
but not be able to save changes.

I do not want to have to give anyone the username/password to my site. I
would create separate usernames/passwords for the different permissions.

Is all of this possible? If not, is any portion of it possible? How?
(I can read/write passwpord files on my website, and install or remove
Front Page extensions, etc.)

Many thanks for any help.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I would like to place an Excel spreadsheet in a folder on my Apache based
website.

Read/Write permission:
I would like for certain people (those who know the proper
username/password) to be able to open the file with their copy of Excel,
make changes and save the changes back to the website. It would be best if
these folks could not delete the file.

Read Only permission:
I would also like for other people (those who know a different
username/password) to be able to open the file with their copy of Excel,
but not be able to save changes.

I do not want to have to give anyone the username/password to my site. I
would create separate usernames/passwords for the different permissions.

Is all of this possible? If not, is any portion of it possible? How?
(I can read/write passwpord files on my website, and install or remove
Front Page extensions, etc.)

Isn't that the whole point of Microsoft's SharePoint server?

Generally doing this with Excel is not a good idea because only
one user can modify it at a time. It would be better to write a
real web application using web forms.

But as a stopgap solution for a small number of users it could
work.

But this is not a Windows networking question. It is a question
on Apache's security settings. I think it is not difficult, but
it depends on what the service provider running the apache
server allows you to do. Most ISPs do allow you to set access
rights, at least for folders. But you could put the file into
its own folder.

Anyway, wrong newsgroup.

Hans-Georg

 

[Guest]

But this is not a Windows networking question. It is a question
on Apache's security settings. I think it is not difficult, but
it depends on what the service provider running the apache
server allows you to do. Most ISPs do allow you to set access
rights, at least for folders. But you could put the file into
its own folder.

True, in part. I cannot seem to get web folders to work in Windows XP
Professional.

Anyway, wrong newsgroup.

What would be the best news group?

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

But this is not a Windows networking question. It is a question
on Apache's security settings. I think it is not difficult, but
it depends on what the service provider running the apache
server allows you to do. Most ISPs do allow you to set access
rights, at least for folders. But you could put the file into
its own folder.

True, in part. I cannot seem to get web folders to work in Windows XP
Professional.

Anyway, wrong newsgroup.

What would be the best news group?

Thanks.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:24:56 +0200, Hans-Georg Michna

True, in part. I cannot seem to get web folders to work in Windows XP
Professional.

What would be the best news group?

alt.apache.configuration perhaps? I have not much to do with
Apache and don't really know.

Hans-Georg