FreeBSD setup of WebDAV

• These are the steps I followed. I thought this task complex enough to be of use to others.
• assume for "me.com"

TWiki dav plugin config

• cd $TWIKI_ROOT
• perl WebDAVPlugin_installer.pl
• perl -c bin/dav.pl (to check)
• http://me.com/bin/view/TWiki/WebDAVPlugin
• set LOCKDB /var/lock/webdav
• cd $TWIKI_ROOT/bin
• dav_recache
• dav_recache via web URL

install support tools

install tbd

• portinstall databases/tdb

port for TDB_File

• Port sources attached
• p5-TDB_FIle.tgz: FreeBSD port of TDB_File
• tar xpzf p5-TDB_File.tgz -C /usr/ports/databases/p5-TDB-File
• portinstall databases/p5-TDB_File

Install mod_dav

• http://webdav.org/mod_dav/install.html
• DO NOT INSTALL mod_dav from ports
• cd $TWIKI_ROOT/lib/twiki_dav
• configure -h
• Change Makefile.in from /usr/lib/libtdb.a to /usr/local/lib/libtdba.a

rm -f config.cache
export CC=cc
export CPPFLAGS="-O -pipe -I/usr/local/include"
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --bindir=/usr/local/bin --sbindir=/usr/local/sbin \
 --libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec/apache --mandir=/usr/local/man \
 --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/apache --datadir=/usr/local/share/apache \
 --includedir=/usr/local/include/apache --with-apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs
make ; make install ; make clean

httpd.conf setup

• These go int the httpd.conf somewhere

   LoadModule dav_module         libexec/apache/libdav.so
   AddModule mod_dav.c

#  on per system
   DAVLockDB /var/lock/webdav
   DAVMinTimeout 600
   DAVMonitor 7

• I use "VirtualHost" for each wiki, here are the lines applied for reference

<VirtualHost x.x.x.x>
# uses "shorter urls"
AccessFileName .htaccess
DocumentRoot /usr/local/twiki/me/private
ServerName me.com
LogLevel debug
ErrorLog /usr/local/twiki/me/private/log/httpd-error.log
CustomLog /usr/local/twiki/me/private/log/httpd-access.log combined env=!nolog
Alias /bin "/usr/local/twiki/me/private/bin"
Alias /pub "/usr/local/twiki/me/private/pub"
Alias /data "/usr/local/twiki/me/private/data"
Alias /robots.txt "/usr/local/twiki/me/private/robots.txt"
Alias /favicon.ico "/usr/local/twiki/me/private/pub/favicon.ico"
Alias / "/usr/local/twiki/me/bin/view/"

   <Directory "/usr/local/twiki/me/private">
        Deny from all
        Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
#       This allows .htaccess
        AllowOverride AuthConfig
   </Directory>

   <Directory "/usr/local/twiki/me/private/bin">
        Options +ExecCGI
        Allow from all
        AllowOverride None
        SetHandler cgi-script
   </Directory>

   <Directory "/usr/local/twiki/me/private/pub">
       Allow from all
       Options FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride None
       <LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS>
           Require user fred barney
       </LimitExcept>

       DAV on
       TWikiDir data /usr/local/twiki/me/private/data
       TWikiScript /usr/local/twiki/me/private/bin/dav.pl
   </Directory>

   <Directory "/usr/local/twiki/me/private/data">
       Allow from all
       Options FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride None
       <LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS>
           Require user fred barney
       </LimitExcept>

       DAV on
       TWikiDir data /usr/local/twiki/me/private/pub
       TWikiScript /usr/local/twiki/me/private/bin/dav.pl
   </Directory>
   <Directory "/usr/local/twiki/me/private/templates">
       deny from all
       AllowOverride None
   </Directory>
   <Directory "/usr/local/twiki/me/private/lib">
       deny from all
       AllowOverride None
   </Directory>

• apachectl configtest

Check it out with a UNIX command line client

• install "cadaver" command line webdav client
• about like command line ftp client
• portinstall www/cadaver
• http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/cadaver1.html
• cadaver http://me.com/data

Install a good Windows client

• XP "Web Folders" seemed to want to append "domain" to my user name when trying to login
• I had used Windows WebDAV enough to know it was quirky
• Novell NetDrive is a free tool that will map FTP/WebDAV to a drive letter (!)
• offers a ton of cache/mirror options
• this mapped my data/pub right out of the box
• NetDrive Client Version 4.1 Build 862 - TID2965552
  • Direct Download
  • docs
  • FAQ
• Novell KB search

-- DanDees - 10 Nov 2004