Uploading to a http server

Question

I am making a website were people can upload their files (Music, Videos, Images, Documents, etc.) so they can access them on their phone, tablet, and any other internet enabled device.

Right now, I have a HTTP server running on Ubuntu so I can display and play files online, but I need to be able to upload files. Should I have an FTP server on the same machine as the HTTP server, or is there an easier way to do this?

Answer 1

If you're doing the web site you should implement file upload in your web site code (it is slightly different then submitting usual form, e.g. you should use POST request and multipart/form-data encoding type, <input type="file"> HTML element, you will have to process this data on the server side in your servlet or controller), but as you didn't provide much infos about your site, I guess the better for you will be draw attention to some kind of CMS. They take care of user accounting and content management (CMS = Content Management System), i.e. uploading files, removing ones.