David,
Please try to add the line following line before Alias /update /www/www.my-example.co.uk/site in the config file. Thanks, Srinivas Alias /update /www/www.my-example.co.uk/site/dav > Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 06:50:23 +0100 > From: lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [users] WebDAV for managing web site content HTTPD 2.4.x (9 actually) > > I used to use WebDAV for managing web site content with Apache httpd > 2.2.x, however I have so far been unable to move the old configurations > to 2.4.x and maintain this facility. > > Most of the on-line 'howtos' seem to be based on the assumption that the > web server is being used as a kind of remote filesystem, which is all > well and good, and very useful; but not what I'm doing. > > I have things fundamentally working, and I CAN make DAV work if I create > a directory under my DocumentRoot and use DAV to manage files within it. > > > <VirtualHost *:80> > ServerName www.my-example.co.uk > ServerAdmin webmaster@xxxxxxxxx > DocumentRoot /www/www.my-example.co.uk/site > ErrorLog /www/www.my-example.co.uk/WEB-INF/logs/http/error.log > CustomLog /www/www.my-example.co.uk/WEB-INF/logs/http/access.log > combined > DirectoryIndex index.html > > Alias /update /www/www.my-example.co.uk/site > > <Directory /www/www.my-example.co.uk/site> > AllowOverride all > Require all granted > </Directory> > > <Location /update> > Dav On > AuthType Basic > AuthName "Site Update" > AuthUserFile /www/www.my-example.co.uk/WEB-INF/dav/user.passwd > AuthBasicProvider file > <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS> > Require valid-user > </LimitExcept> > </Location> > > </VirtualHost> > > This is my configuration. For the web site there is a .../<some-url> > directory, and within this there is a WEB-INF directory for various > administration stuff, and a 'site' directory. Everything is owned by the > user and group under which httpd runs. > > DocumentRoot is set to the 'site' directory, so that the server serves > stuff from it as expected. > > If I create a subdirectory under 'site' and set the Alias target to > point to it, DAV works; proving that the fundamentals are OK. > > So for example: > > Alias /update /www/www.my-example.co.uk/site/dav > > Will allow me to access files in a subdirectory of the 'site' directory > called 'dav'. However as soon as I set Alias as in the configuration > file above, to point to the DocumentRoot, I get '405' errors and failure. > > This seems to be telling me that there is something about the access > permissions to the actual DocumentRoot directory, rather than a DAV > configuration problem, and I assume that somehow my configuration must > have conflics in this area, but I'm completely at a loss with respect to > what is going wrong. > > Regards, > David > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > |