Comments on: Red Hat / CentOS Linux: Apache Enable WebDAV

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:16:11 +0000

Thank you very much! Worked like a charm on my Centos virtual machine. I use no-ip.org dyndns to forward to the centos VM and can now easily access, transfer (up and download) and edit files on my iPad from anywhere. The free iPad App Webdav Nav works excellent in this combination!

By: luigi

luigi — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:47:36 +0000

Hi, a few months ago, i configure my apache server to allow web dav calendar sharing.
im using outlook 2007 as a cliente, and now people who share their calendar, has loss all the appointments and task, olders than three monts.
If someone know how this could happend, i really appreciate your help.
Thanks.

By: Amsterdam

Amsterdam — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:25:12 +0000

Okay, here iswhat I did on my CentOS 5.3 BlueOnyx box..
In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf , I have the following:
If you don’t have dav_fs module I guess you’ll simply usemod_dav.c..

DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb DAVDepthInfinity On DAVMinTimeout 600

I make a my directorywebdav (in root, not in /web).
I add my user-login to a pwd file.
mkdir /home/sites/your.domain.tld/webdav (give it rights) htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/your.webdav.users.pwd yourname

For my sites, BX takes care of loading configs for vhosts.
So, for vhost #14 I have the following for /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/site14.include

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Allow from all

LimitXMLRequestBody 131072

# Options none Options Indexes FollowSymLinks IndexOptions FancyIndexing AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all

Alias /webdav "/home/sites/your.domain.tld/webdav"

DAV On AuthType Basic AuthName DAV AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/your.webdav.users.pwd require user yourname

This way, you can make seperate settings, like if you want browser web-access. If not, you can uncomment the commentedOptions None, and comment the current Options and IndexOptions. Alike you can change access by chaging theLimit orLimitExept.

Keep in touch with the dutch.
regards, Frank

By: Amsterdam

Amsterdam — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:15:47 +0000

Test interface before I answer.. citing

By: Amsterdam

Amsterdam — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:59:59 +0000

Niels, that is what I’m experiencing at my live BX box too. However, it works perfect in my localhost testing box at home. Both are BX CentOS5.3. The example above works. Im a rookie, Im figuring out my next move.

By: niels

niels — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:40:57 +0000

Hi,

I have an Centos 5.3 Server running
But it won’t work. When i try to connect i’am getting the message :
Could not acces /webdav/ 405 Method Not Allowed
Connection to ‘localhost’ closed..

Can you help me?

By: Amsterdam

Amsterdam — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:36:41 +0000

Sorry for my broken post. That isnt really a userfriendly interface here.. ;-)

By: Amsterdam

Amsterdam — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:32:57 +0000

Hi, Im on a BlueOnyx box (CentOS 5.3).
I used the updated part, not the example above it.
My Apache httpd.conf already had WebDAV, which I left untouched:
# Location of the WebDAV lock database. DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb

I have user includes, for user specific httpd config. There, I added your example. And I changed to my . Works like a charm. Connected on my OS-X desktop. And on the interwebs it asked for authentication. Thanks for the example here.

By: akuba

akuba — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:06:25 +0000

thanks!

By: John Paul

John Paul — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:30:02 +0000

I am wondering if this is possible;

read only for everyone, and only write access for people allowed to modify the site.

im in the process of rebuilding a website and will be using Adobe Contribute for 3 staff to update the site, but it will need to be publically viewable, but only writable by 3 staff, is this easy to acomplish?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:36:06 +0000

Thanks for the update. Your website has been so helpful. One more tip: if you’re doing WebDAV over the Internet and using authentication (which you should) be sure to enable HTTPS to protect those passwords.

By: vivek

vivek — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:17:45 +0000

@Manoj / Jason,

The faq has been updated to fix the problem. Let me know if you need anything else.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:05:16 +0000

How do we provide for authentication? Do you recommend just using an .htaccess file?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:04:06 +0000

I think this article is missing something and the comments tried to clean it up, but they too didn’t work on my CentOS system. Put the following in a file /etc/httpd/conf.d/webdav.conf and then reload httpd.

Alias /webdav /home/httpd/webdav/

Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Dav on

By: Manoj

Manoj — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:45:27 +0000

menting “Dav on” under would work

———–
Alias /webdav /home/httpd/webdav

Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Dav on

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By: Manoj

Manoj — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:41:52 +0000

getting error while restarting my apache
[root@testbox ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 555 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
DAV not allowed here
[FAILED]
[root@testbox ~]#