6.3 HP StoreAll Storage File System User Guide (TA768-96093, June 2013)

7. If you selected a previous profile, the Virtual Host prompts you to select a pre-existing Vhost
or create an HTTP Vhost.
8. If you already have Vhosts defined, you can select an existing Vhost.
9. On the Settings page, set the appropriate parameters for the share. Note the following:
• When specifying the URL Path, do not include http://<IP address> or any variation
of this in the URL path. For example, /reports/ is a valid URL path. The beginning and
ending slashes of the path are optional. For example, /reports/, reports, and
/reports are valid entries and will be stored as /reports/. For REST API shares in
File-Compatible mode, do not define a URL path of more than one directory level, such
as reports/sales; however, your single-directory URL path can correspond to any
arbitrarily deep directory path on the StoreAll file system.
• StoreAll REST API Mode field on the Settings page is displayed only when the Enable
StoreAll REST API on Virtual Host page is selected as true (for example, when HTTP-StoreAll
REST API share is to created). The StoreAll REST API Mode can be selected as File
Compatible or Object from the drop-down list, and it and defines which mode's syntax
will be accepted by this API share. For example, if object mode is selected, then HTTP
requests using the File-Compatible mode syntax will not be understood and will most likely
return an error.
• Default Permissions: For File-compatible shares, new files uploaded via the HTTP share
will be given these permissions on the file system. The value is in standard UNIX octal
notation, the default giving read-write permission to the owning user and group (the 77)
and read-only permission to everyone else (the 5). This default permission is ignored
when creating directories, which will always be set to 0755.
For object mode shares, this setting is ignored. Containers (directories, on the file system)
are always created with permissions 0700, and access to a container’s objects by other
users is controlled at the container level instead (see “Set Container Permission” (page 150)).
Permissions cannot be assigned to objects individually.
• The Enable WebDAV option is greyed out for HTTP-StoreAll REST API shares and it is
shown as false because every StoreAll REST API share is also a WebDAV-disabled share.
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