WebDAV, group "www", WinXP, etc??

[deemery]

I’m trying to get WebDAV set up on my X Server installation, and things aren’t working exactly as I expected.

1. Do people still have to add the “#” at the end of the WebDAV URL from XP?

2. is there an easy way to force all the files/directories in /Library/WebServer/Documents to be set to group “www” by default? (It’s my understanding this is a requirement to be able to do WebDAV writes on files/directories.)

3. Is there a way to add the “www” group to an LDAP user?

In the Grand Scheme of Things, I want to be able to create a class of users who only have access to certain web directories via WebDAV. My expectations were
a. This is doable
b. They’d all be members of the ‘www’ group
c. They’d have shell accounts, etc, disabled.
d. Most (but not all) will be suffering from XP, rather than OS X.

What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance, as usual!

dave

[pteeter]

I’ve been testing with WebDAV over the past couple of days.

My understanding is YES, WinXP users have to add the /# at the end of the URL. An article I found at BigNerdRanch’s blog discusses it a bit – http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=18.

Can anyone post some of the resulting httpd.conf file after mucking around with ServerAdmin to configure the web realm?

I want to see how Apache is configured to interact with OD for authentication. I’m familiar with the AuthType, AuthName, and AuthDigestFile directives but am very curious how one points Apache to refer to OD.

It would be much appreciated.

[pteeter]

Kind of an ambiguous response Joel… 😉

I know OS X Server has both a mod_auth_apple module and a mod_digest_apple module.

Presumably, the digest module uses digest passwords and is therefore slightly more secure than mod_auth_apple.

Is it a requirement that Apache 1.3.x has one or both of these modules enabled to allow for OD authentication?

If so, then the article about ‘WebDAV and ACL’s” needs to be amended b/c it states that:

c.) The proper modules activated: digest_module + dav_module (This is under Apache Web Server 1.3.33)

I’ll have to do some more looking about making Apache work with mod_auth_apple and mod_digest_apple.

PJT

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