Share your files with friends using http links

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Hi Cybernut,

Thanks for this great writeup. Since you seem to have some experience with the WD NAS products (I just purchased a Mirror about a week or so ago), I was wondering if you could take a look at  http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud-Mirror/Viewing-WD-Cloud-shared-images-in-browser/m-p/816205/highlight/false#M731.

Ideally, I would like to be able to do something similar to what dropbox does, get a link for a particular file (or even better, a particular folder), share it with someone and let that be it. I do not want to have to copy this to a new share, if we’re talking about wanting to share a 5GB photo library with someone, copying the entire **bleep** thing to a public share is just not convenient. Giving them the share link WD provides which creates a 5GB .zip is again, not ideal. 

So basically, my questions are:

  1. Is there way to create a web server on the NAS without activating remote access to the NAS’s interface? I’m not really happy about opening up that door.

  2. Can I simply write a php script that receives let’s say a folder name as parameter, parses that folder and creates a media gallery from it? The problem is not writing the actual script, it’s that I don’t know if I can just add a php there and have it be interpreted.

Thanks,

Radu.