Dropbox 2.1
With version 2.1 of Dropbox, I've made a much better effort at factoring-out all references to UDel-specific things (UDelNetID, appended mail domain on plain usernames, etc). Now it should be slightly easier for other institutions to customize the Dropbox interface to their particulars.
The minor version number was bumped due to a completely revised authenticator class structure. There were myriad suggestions from those who have downloaded and set up a Dropbox. The classes have been rewritten to be more modular in nature, with each subclass stored in its own file and loaded on-demand; more object-oriented, with the list of Dropbox admins now an inherited feature of the abstract base class NSSAuthenticator; and the addition of an IMAP-based authenticator (contributed by Scott Merrill).
So in the end, not much has truly changed in this release; your existing Dropbox site should work as-is, most likely. Make sure you glance at the Admin Guide, particularly the sections on the preferences file.
Discussion
What flavor of Linux do you recommend for dropbox? What flavor do you use for development?
Dropbox development is done under Mac OS X. I personally have deployed it under both Mac OS X and Solaris 10 operating systems. My modus operandi on any OS is to build Apache and PHP myself, so that I have ultimate control over the feature sets and can patch PHP for large file support when built 64-bit. If you go with provided packages you'll be lacking support for SQLite (in some instances) or large files (in all instances).
Lately most of the Linux-related questions I've received directly have been from people running Ubuntu – which I've never used myself and on which I cannot comment.
Thanks for the script, it's really useful and works flawlessly. Have you ever thought about integrating an upload statusbar such as http://www.johnboy.com/about-us/news/a-useful-php-file-upload-progress-meter (based on http://progphp.com/progress.phps). This would be a nice addition.
I've hacked in a IP range validation to NSSdropbox.php to disable login for internal users after imap and ldap validation wouldn't work with our windows server. Maybe a suggestion for a future version.
Hi, I'm not sure if this will affect anyone else but just in case. I was having trouble when clicking on the link to download the dropoff and the script was displaying the binary file rather than offering it for download. After much head scratching I tracked it down to an empty line at the top of my preferences.php file. I don't think I added it myself and could probably do with testing it a little more but it might be the config.php file adding an empty line at the top before the first <?php command. Hope this helps, jonny