On July 7, 2004 08:19 pm, Steve wrote: > Standard ES 3 with httpd > > updates applied > > I have setup an upload area and enabled WebDAV, I've added an htaccess > type entry to <Limit> GET requests to anonymous users (anyone can view the > URLs) and then added a further <Limit> for all other directives to be > allowed after authenticating only. > > The reason for this (as everyone seems to be asking me "why bother" is > that I need to find an easy way to upload a few thousand photos and add > them into a gallery, the gallery software allows either "groups of 10 > files to be uploaded" or a URL to be supplied that it will wander off to > and suck down the photos. > > Due to ease of explaining how things work to end users, it was decided to > create a simple system using webdav so uploads can be done as if the site > were a hard drive then they put in the URL "uploads.blah.com" into the > gallery system and it will suck their photos across. > > I tried sucessfully to make the DAV folder under the main site but the > gallery URL suck became confused for some reason and required the images > to be in the root of the web structure. > > It appears that someone within the organisation that sets up the > httpd.conf decided that disableing indexes by default within apache was > not enough to stop stupid admins from displaying their directory structure > to the world (despite the fact that you had to actually enable this option > to doso) - so they would also do a location rewrite if the url requested > was the root of the web site and the file served was not one of the > index files. > > #<LocationMatch "^/$> > # Options -Indexes > # ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html > #</LocationMatch> > > I have since disabled this (IMHO - Braindead) option and restarted apache. > However, I am still getting a random "forbidden" rule and redirect if I > try to goto the root of my upload vhost. > > My Config for this vhost is.. > > <Directory "/var/www/vhost/uploads"> > DAV On > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews > AllowOverride all > AuthType Basic > AuthName jany > AuthUserFile /var/www/vhost/htpasswd > AuthGroupFile /dev/null > <Limit GET> > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Limit> > <Limit POST PUT CONNECT OPTIONS DELETE PATCH PROPFIND PROPPATCH MKCOL > COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK> > Require valid-user > </Limit> > </Directory> > > Document Root is set to.. > > DocumentRoot /var/www/vhost/uploads > > I have just spent the past hour scouring through the httpd.conf file > trying to find any reference to a redirect to a forbbiden document or an > index document and I cant find anything. I have set "Indexes" as an option > on every <Directory> Idirective I can find in the vain hope that it was > something else. > > <rant> > Whoever in their right mind dreamed up the idea that disabling indexes and > making it near on impossible to re-enable them needs a freakin bullet to > the head !!! if an admin makes a concious decision to allow a function to > happen outside default spec then WHY MAKE IT FREAKIN NEAR ENOUGH TO > IMPOSSIBLE TO DOSO ????? > </rant> > > Ok, so ranting probably doesnt help but I have hardly any hair left. > > god, its things like this that almost make you want to go back to using > IIS or Apache 1.3 - at least they bloody work !. > > -- > Steve. HI, This sounds like a configuration problem, not an issue with Apache per-say. Is your problem with WebDAV access or with browser access or both? Have you tried this below the DocumentRoot, I remember having a problem trying to set up DAV at DocRoot, but it was a while ago and I don't have access to the machine right now, so I can't confirm exactly what was the problem (or how i resolved it). Just some thoughts... -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
