apachefs

apachefs is a Python script which makes you able to locally mount a file tree served by Apache (like the Heanet public mirror). It's the default apache's behavior when it has to serve a file tree without any index.html file. The filesystem is obviously read-only.

Works on Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD.

How to use it ?

First get the code of this repository.

$ git clone http://github.com/Gawen/apachefs
$ cd apachefs

Before actually using the script, you will first require to install fusepy and BeautifulSoup.

$ pip install fusepy beautifulsoup

The script to use is named apachefs.py.

$ ./apachefs.py --help
Usage: apachefs.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose     
  -f, --foreground  

-v sets the log's level to debug. -f keeps the process to foreground.

For example, let's mount the Ubuntu's heanet mirror: http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/ubuntu-cdimage/releases/.

$ mkdir heanet
$ ./apachefs.py http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/ubuntu-cdimage/releases/ heanet
$ cd heanet
$ ls
10.04
10.04.1
10.04.2
10.04.3
10.04.4
11.10
12.04
12.04.1
12.10
8.04
8.04.1
8.04.3
8.04.4
hardy
lucid
oneiric
precise
quantal
$

The cd heanet and ls operations could take a while, because it requires the script to do a HTTP HEAD request for each of the files in the directory to have the file meta-attributes.

To un-mount the filesystem, just type.

$ fusermount -u heapnet

And you're done.

License

The code is under MIT license.

Links

• fusepy repository: https://github.com/terencehonles/fusepy
• BeautifulSoup website: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
• Heapnet public mirror, an URL compatible with apachefs: http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/