[users@httpd] mod_dav cannot upload or lock files

[Tom Hancock <th...@opwfms.com>]

Hi folks!

I am trying to set up Apache with mod_dav.  I'm doing this for testing purposes and as a demo.  I'll worry about security later.

The platform is Mandrake 9.1.  The apache packages installed are:

apache2-common-2.0.44-11mdk
apache2-modules-2.0.44-11mdk
apache2-mod_php-2.0.44_4.3.1-2mdk
apache-conf-2.0.44-11mdk
apache2-2.0.44-11mdk
apache2-mod_suexec-2.0.44-2mdk
apache2-mod_ssl-2.0.44-11mdk
apache2-mod_perl-2.0.44_1.99_08-3mdk
apache2-mod_dav-2.0.44-11mdk

The relavent section of httpd2.conf:

DavLockDB /var/log/httpd/dav/lockdb

<Directory /var/www/html/dav>
    Dav On    
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName DAV
    AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/passwd
</Directory>

The relavent section of error log:

[Thu Oct 09 16:44:03 2003] [notice] Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.44 (Mandrake Linux/11mdk) mod_perl/1.99_08 Perl/v5.8.0 DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.0.44 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.3.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Oct 09 16:45:11 2003] [error] [client 10.0.0.96] The locks could not be queried for verification against a possible "If:" header.  [500, #0]
[Thu Oct 09 16:45:11 2003] [error] [client 10.0.0.96] Could not open the lock database.  [500, #400]
[Thu Oct 09 16:45:11 2003] [error] [client 10.0.0.96] (13)Permission denied: Could not open property database.  [500, #1]

Symptoms:

I can connect using the DAV Explorer tool (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~webdav/).  I can download files using this tool, but cannot either lock files or upload files.  MS Explorer cannot establish a connection.  Any files I manually place into the repository are visible in this tool, and can be downloaded.

What I have tried:

I googled around for answers and found that most people who have a problem with this have a problem with the DavLockDB directive.  Most of these problems were solved by either correcting the DavLockDB (it names a file, not a directory) or correcting file permissions so Apache can write to the directory and file.  In the above example "/var/log/httpd/dav/lockdb"  the "../dav" is a directory.  The file permissions:

drwxr-x---    2 apache   apache       4096 Oct  8 13:47 dav/

I have tried everything to make sure the file permissions and the DavLockDB are correct.  I even tried this:

DavLockDB /tmp/lockdb

But nothing works.  There is no difference in the results.


What am I missing?

Thanks for your consideration.

Tom Hancock

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"Everybody is somebody else's weirdo." -- Dykstra
Thomas M. Hancock, P.E.
Software Group Manager
OPW Fuel Management Systems
thancock@opwfms.com 

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