WebDAV, which stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning enables Apache to act as a network drive . It uses HTTP as the protocol instead of TCP/IP or port like SMB and NFS.
How can we do this ?
- mod_dav which ships with Apache has to be enabled. You should be able to see the library in the modules directory.
- If it is not available then you may have to build it . The library can be downloaded at mod_dav .After you install them using make add the following lines to httpd.conf
"LoadModule dav_module
modules/mod_dav.so LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so"
- A new directory has to be created to store the files. It is a good practise to create the folder in your SSL enabled web root.
mkdir /wwwssl/dav
- To enable basic authentication a htpasswd file has to be created
mkdir testauth
htpasswd -c /testauth/dav.htpasswd testdav
- Create a .htaccess file under /wwwssl/dav . The file should have the following entry
AuthName “DAV Test”
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile “/davauth/dav.htpasswd”
require valid-user
- make the following entry in httpd.conf
< Directory “/wwwssl/dav”/>
AllowOverride AuthConfig
Dav On
< Directory />
Restart apache and ”somedomain.com/dav” would be the path to your repository (replace somedomain.com with your site url).To use the capabilities of your WebDAV URL, you’ll need to use software that is WebDAV-enabled. Apache has a open source project called Slides which is a CMS tool built over WEBDav
