Setting Access Rights

Access rights can only be set by the Server Manager for a server instance. Access rights restrict access to files and directories on your server. In addition to allowing or denying all access rights, you can specify a rule that allows or denies partial access rights. For example, you could allow users read-only access rights to your files so they can view the information but not change the files.

The following elements are displayed for Rights on the Access Control Rules For page in the user interface.

• All Access Rights is the default and allows or denies all rights.

• Only The following Rights enables you to select a combination of rights to be allowed or denied:

  • Read permits users to view files, including the HTTP methods GET, HEAD, POST, and INDEX.

  • Write permits users to change or delete files, including the HTTP methods PUT, DELETE, MKDIR, RMDIR, and MOVE. To delete a file, a user must have both write and delete rights.

  • Execute permits users to execute server-side applications, such as CGI programs, Java applets, and agents.

  • Delete permits users who also have write privileges to delete files or directories.

  • List permits users to access lists of the files in directories that do not contain an index.html file.

  • Info permits users to receive information about the URI, for example http_head.