NB: Making apache into webdav server

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*inde x.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*acce ss.conf
lrwxrwxrwx****1*root*****root************1*pro*10* 21:00*conf*->*.
-rw-r--r--****1*root*****root********35579*pro*11*02:21*http d.conf
-rw-r--r--****1*root*****root********12554*pro*10*21:00*http d.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).

No amount of googling make any more enlightened than I am (and I feel really
unenlightened currently :-). Do you have any idea, what's wrong with me,
please?

Thanks for any kick into the right direction,

Matej

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"Matej Cepl" <cepl@surfbest.net> schreef in bericht
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> 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 --
Try /usr/lib/apache/1.3/040mod_mime_magic.info

> 404 Not Found
> Connection to `mitmanek' closed.
> dav:!>
> blahoslav:matej$
Is the folder /var/lock/DAV/DAVLock available with proper rights?
Why aliassing /dav to where it is already: /var/www/dav/?
http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/faq/#02-02 has a sample config

HansH

HansH wrote:
> Is the folder /var/lock/DAV/DAVLock available with proper rights?

This might be the problem -- I originally made it a file not a folder. I
then played with it a little bit more and I have made it work with cadaver.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work with konqueror (trying
"webdav://server/dav"), but I guess it should into KDE NG now.

Thanks a lot,

Matej

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