On Saturday 30 September 2006 14:23, Jay L. T. Cornwall wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to implement WebDAV for all the users on a system without > configuring each individually. Perhaps Apache can't (yet?) do this or > perhaps I'm looking at the problem the wrong way. > > The aim is to provide /home/user/private_dav and have it served from the > URL 'http://www.hostname.com/~user/dav/'. What I'd envision is something > along the lines of: > > <Directory /home/*/public_html> > Alias /dav /home/$user/private_dav > </Directory> Forget the alias. Just let them have a subdirectory of public_html, and make sure nothing uploaded can be executed! Lots of hosting companies do this kind of thing with a per-user cgi-bin, which is basically the same task (a special-purpose directory for each user). I'm sure google can find you some example configs, if there isn't one at apache.org (I haven't checked that). > My understanding is that access to the matched wildcard isn't available > from Apache, so the only option I see is to write out each case > individually. Would that be the case? mod_macro would (also) make it less painful. -- Nick Kew Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book http://www.prenhallprofessional.com/title/0132409674 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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