Hi all,

I've been RTFM and googling and spent hours trying to
figure it but I'm simply stuck...

I've set up a simple WebDAV with Apache 2 but without
SSL (on an LAN, the computer isn't accessible from the Internet)

First here is what's working:

Alias /webdav/ "/var/www/webdav/"
<Directory "/var/www/webdav">
Options All
Dav ON
</Directory>

With this and the /var/www/webdav/ directory created, I can
access to it using, say, Firefox:

http://127.0.0.1/webdav/fab/

and I get the list of what's inside .../webdav/fav/.

I've also got Sunbird to work and I'm sharing calendar between
several users. So far so good.

Then I'm trying to use simple authentication. If possible I'd like
to avoid SSL. I really want to keep it simple.

So I changed the <Directory> to this:

<Directory "/var/www/webdav">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "WebDAV Storage"
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/passwd/passwd.dav
Dav ON
</Directory>

and passwd.dav looks like this:

fab:H9WkRwqEDUfAo


I restart httpd and when I try to access http://127.0.0.1/webdav/fab/
I receive an:

"Forbidden
"
"You don't have permission to access /webdav/fab/ on this server.

Apache's log says this:
[client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by rule:
/var/www/webdav/fab/

I don't know if this is normal or not. I mean: I don't know if it's
possible to "authenticate" to a WebDAV directory using Firefox.
Is it? How would I go about it?

Besides this, here comes the thing take makes me scratch my head:
Sunbird
still works fine and from any user. I can still create new calendars
etc. And
other people on the LAN can still access them.

I know I restarted httpd. Something obviously has changed as I can't
access
the webdav/fab/ dir from Firefox anymore.

But Sunbird apparently stills bypass authentication.

Moreover I'm using Sunbird 0.3a2 and I don't see where I'm actually
supposed
to enter a login/password. I just don't see this option anywhere.

Thanks a lot for any ,

fab


P.S: Sunbird shows "fix the WebDAV config" in the task list. I want
to delete that task

[ nobody ]

> Hi all,
>
> I've been RTFM and googling and spent hours trying to figure it but
> I'm simply stuck...
>
> I've set up a simple WebDAV with Apache 2 but without SSL (on an
> LAN, the computer isn't accessible from the Internet)
>
> First here is what's working:
>
> Alias /webdav/ "/var/www/webdav/"
> <Directory "/var/www/webdav">
> Options All
> Dav ON
> </Directory>
>
> With this and the /var/www/webdav/ directory created, I can
> access to it using, say, Firefox:
>
> http://127.0.0.1/webdav/fab/
>
> and I get the list of what's inside .../webdav/fav/.
>
> I've also got Sunbird to work and I'm sharing calendar between
> several users. So far so good.
>
> Then I'm trying to use simple authentication. If possible I'd like
> to avoid SSL. I really want to keep it simple.
>
> So I changed the <Directory> to this:
>
> <Directory "/var/www/webdav">
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "WebDAV Storage"
> AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/passwd/passwd.dav
> Dav ON
> </Directory>

You've removed "Options All"? Try at least having "Options Indexes" to
allow the directory index.

> Besides this, here comes the thing take makes me scratch my head:
> Sunbird still works fine and from any user. I can still create new
> calendars etc. And other people on the LAN can still access them.
>
> I know I restarted httpd. Something obviously has changed as I can't
> access the webdav/fab/ dir from Firefox anymore.
>
> But Sunbird apparently stills bypass authentication.
>
> Moreover I'm using Sunbird 0.3a2 and I don't see where I'm actually
> supposed to enter a login/password. I just don't see this option
> anywhere.

I have no knowledge of Sunbird, but if your Sunbird session is stored
in a you will not be prompted for uname/pwd until you either
delete the existing session or restart your browser. Don't know
if this is the case though.


Rgds,
Kenneth Svee

[ nobody ]

> Hi all,
>
> I've been RTFM and googling and spent hours trying to figure it but
> I'm simply stuck...
>
> I've set up a simple WebDAV with Apache 2 but without SSL (on an
> LAN, the computer isn't accessible from the Internet)
>
> First here is what's working:
>
> Alias /webdav/ "/var/www/webdav/"
> <Directory "/var/www/webdav">
> Options All
> Dav ON
> </Directory>
>
> With this and the /var/www/webdav/ directory created, I can
> access to it using, say, Firefox:
>
> http://127.0.0.1/webdav/fab/
>
> and I get the list of what's inside .../webdav/fav/.
>
> I've also got Sunbird to work and I'm sharing calendar between
> several users. So far so good.
>
> Then I'm trying to use simple authentication. If possible I'd like
> to avoid SSL. I really want to keep it simple.
>
> So I changed the <Directory> to this:
>
> <Directory "/var/www/webdav">
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "WebDAV Storage"
> AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/passwd/passwd.dav
> Dav ON
> </Directory>

You've removed "Options All"? Try at least having "Options Indexes" to
allow the directory index.

> Besides this, here comes the thing take makes me scratch my head:
> Sunbird still works fine and from any user. I can still create new
> calendars etc. And other people on the LAN can still access them.
>
> I know I restarted httpd. Something obviously has changed as I can't
> access the webdav/fab/ dir from Firefox anymore.
>
> But Sunbird apparently stills bypass authentication.
>
> Moreover I'm using Sunbird 0.3a2 and I don't see where I'm actually
> supposed to enter a login/password. I just don't see this option
> anywhere.

I have no knowledge of Sunbird, but if your Sunbird session is stored
in a you will not be prompted for uname/pwd until you either
delete the existing session or restart your browser. Don't know
if this is the case though.


Rgds,
Kenneth Svee