[users@httpd] NB: Making apache into webdav server

[Matej Cepl <ce...@surfbest.net>]

Hi,

I am probably a really clueless newbie, but I have a problem to make Apache
1.3.26 (on Debian/woody) working as a WebDAV server (so far a testing
installation on my home server).

I have installed apache, apache-doc, libapache-mod-dav and cadaver (all
standard packages from debian/stable) and I have created a
simple /etc/httpd.conf (viz. see attached diff; BTW does anybody know what
is the correct value of MIMEMagicFile in Debian, the current share/magic
gives me an error on startup of Apache -- but I do not think, that it
should be related to my problems?), I run apacheconfig, and created the
dav/ directory in /var/www/ (which is DocumentRoot on Debian):

mitmanek:matej$ ls -l /var/www/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x����2�www-data�www-data�����4096�pro�11�00:56�dav
-rw-r--r--����1�root�����root���������4110�lis�12�12:07�index.html
mitmanek:matej$

and these files in /etc/apache

mitmanek:matej$ ls -l /etc/apache/
total 216
-rw-r--r--����1�root�����root����������285�pro�10�21:00�access.conf
lrwxrwxrwx����1�root�����root������������1�pro�10�21:00�conf�->�.
-rw-r--r--����1�root�����root��������35579�pro�11�02:21�httpd.conf
-rw-r--r--����1�root�����root��������12554�pro�10�21:00�httpd.conf.8.gz
lrwxrwxrwx����1�root�����root�����������13�pro�10�21:00�mime.types�\
 ->�../mime.types
-rw-r-----����1�root�����www-data�������42�pro�11�02:06�passwd.dav
-rw-r--r--����1�root�����root����������297�pro�11�01:10�srm.conf
-rw-r--r--����1�root�����root����������297�pro�10�21:00�srm.conf.0
mitmanek:matej$

(passwd.dav was created with htpasswd and when I look into it, there is my
login and something encrypted as my password, so it should be OK; I hope).

However, when I try to connect to the WebDAV directory with cadaver (or
webdav://mitmanek/dav/ in konqueror; these are from Debian/testing) I get
an error:

blahoslav:matej$ cadaver http://mitmanek/dav/
Authentication required for DAV Restricted on server `mitmanek':
Username: matej
Password:
Could not access dav (not WebDAV-enabled?):
404 Not Found
Connection to `mitmanek' closed.
dav:!>
blahoslav:matej$

I am quite sure, that the password is correct (I have tried all these things
many times, so there should not be a problem of not restarting apache or
something like that).

Do you have any idea, what's wrong with me, please?

Thanks for any kick into the right direction,

Matej

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