Comments on: ISP-In-A-Box: Remotely Managing Mac Web Sites Using WebDAV

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:04:30 +0000

I have setup WebDAV following your instructions without a hitch. I do, however, run into a problem once it is running. I can mount the WebDAV folder, write to it, and read from it. But I can’t modify anything on it. I would like to edit files on the DAV folder instead of copying it to my machine modifying it, and uploading back to the DAV. Any suggestions?

By: Stephen Downs

Stephen Downs — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:14:24 +0000

I’ve upgraded my development box to Apache 2, and thanks to hints in this tutorial I have WebDAV up and running, but with the following problem.

I’m doing some development in Flash wherein Flash talks to the webserver through various means, POST & AMFPHP. POST from Flash is failing whenever I have WebDAV turned on. Is there a simple way to exclude the WebDAV authorization from kicking in when the user agent is "Macromedia Flash Player 8″ (or anything Flash)?

By: John Korchok

John Korchok — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:04:01 +0000

To add multiple folders with separate passwords, add the following to your httpd.conf file (for Apache 1) or httpd-dav.conf file (for Apache 2)

DavLockDB /Library/WebServer/davlocks/DavLock

#For each user, add a section as follows. There are two user names. myid is your id and appears in each section for each user, so you have access to all folders. The second id appears only in this section, so the user only has access to it.

Dav On
AllowOverride None
Options None
AuthType Digest
AuthName FileShare
AuthUserFile /Library/WebServer/Passwords/.htpwdigest require user myid ctmr00

#Then end with a section like this, to allow only you access to the parent folder of all the folders. This must follow all the other sections or it will not work.

Dav On
AllowOverride None
Options None
AuthType Digest
AuthName FileShare
AuthUserFile /Library/WebServer/Passwords/.htpwdigest require user myid

#We use digest authentication for its greater security

By: chriscj

chriscj — Tue, 02 May 2006 11:00:11 +0000

Hi there!
It appears that you have broken links – I can’t get http://mundy.org/blog/wp-content/webdav1.txt to work, and cannot get any info from a whois on mundy.org. Do oyu perchance have this code elsewhere?

Thanks

[WM: My apologies. We switched providers several months ago, and all the content now is on nerdvittles.com rather than mundy.org/blog. I’ve fixed both links in the article. Thanks.]

By: davidm

davidm — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:50:28 +0000

Is it possible to set up multiple webdav enabled folders, each with unique permissions, /Library/WebServer/webdav/…webdav1, webdav2,…etc. If so can you give a proceedure for accomplishing this?
Also does Webmin have a webdav module?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:22:33 +0000

Nevermind that last comment. I missed a step 🙂 And I really thought I took it nice and slow! Regardless, I do wonder if the second /Documents will ever be different (I realized it should probably be the directory you are attempting to make WebDAVable – I’m pretty bright, huh?)under any circumstances. I do not know, I am just trying to throw it out there.

Thanks for a great tutorial!

By: Joe Auricchio

Joe Auricchio — Fri, 27 May 2005 20:57:54 +0000

Perhaps code snippet 1 should include Tiger WebDAVFS/1.13 support: BrowserMatch "^WebDAVFS/1.[0123]" redirect-carefully. [WM: Good suggestion. Thanks. I've added it; however, all of our systems (Linux of several varieties, Windows XP, and Macs running Tiger and Panther) all seem to do fine without it).]

By: zahadum

zahadum — Fri, 27 May 2005 20:09:20 +0000

more coverage of practical, how-to webdav stuff, please!

readers can also check out these for more background:

news: http://www.webdav.org/
technology: http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/
tutorials: http://www.ht04.org/ht04tutorialDAV2.php