apache webdav

 

1.Install compulsory components.

I.Install apache2 server:

sudo apt-get install apache2

II.Enable related modules:

sudo a2enmod dav_fs

sudo a2enmod dav

sudo a2enmod dav_lock

Apache server read the symbolic links in mods-enabled folder to determine which modules to load.So we can create symbolic links to reach the same destination.

You can take ln -s command to make symbolic links of webdav related modules in mods-available folder to mods-enabled folder like this:

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav.load

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_fs.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_fs.load

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_lock.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_lock.load

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_fs.conf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_fs.conf

III.Restart apache2 server:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

2.Create a virtual host for webdav

mkdir /home/fc/www/webdav
chown fc:fc /home/fc/www/webdav

the first fc is the default user of apache2 server.the second fc is the group of the user.The second fc is used to make the directory accessible to apache2.

3.Create users:

htpasswd -c /home/fc/www/me.dav fc

sudo chown fc:fc /home/fc/www/me.dav

sudo chmod 640 /home/fc/www/me.dav

此处 fc：为用户名，执行此句之后，会提示输入2次密码。以后登陆的时候要用到。

4.Config the virtual host:

sudo cp -a /etc/apache2/sites-available /etc/apache2/sites-available-backup

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

It obvious that the first line is to backup your default settings.So you can recovery at the least cost when you failed.

Clear the existing codes in gedit and Copy the following into it.[Change the green italic parts in your own case.]

NameVirtualHost *<VirtualHost 172.16.57.67:80>        
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost        
DocumentRoot /home/fc/www/webdav       
<Directory /home/fc/www/webdav/>                
Options Indexes MultiViews                
AllowOverride None                
Order allow,deny                
allow from all        
</Directory>        
Alias /webdav /home/fc/www/webdav        
<Location /webdav>           
DAV On           
AuthType Basic           
AuthName "webdav"          
AuthUserFile /home/fc/www/me.dav           
Require valid-user       
</Location>
</VirtualHost>

5.WebDAV it!

sudo apt-get install cadaver

cadaver http://172.16.57.67/webdav/

Or you can try it on your browser,just type :http:// your ip address/ in the address bar.
Hope you succeed!