Authentication and file serving with Apache & OS X Server 10.3

Hello all,

I have a user who would like to uses https with user authentication to serve out data files on an external firewire drive. What we would like is to have users log on (authing against that OS X Server’s user database), and then be directed to their home folder located on the firewire drive based on their log on name. I found very basic instructions for authenticating against the Workgroup Manager data base here. Can anyone give me any suggestions?

Thanks,
skinlayers