Questions[mod-webdav](server)

I am using an iRODS client based on webdav protocol which uses apache httpd server (https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/davrods). I configured iRODS to use SSL+PAM authentication and it is working fine. So I put the same configuration on my web client based on webdav protocol. (Davrods). When I try to login I can accept the SSL contract, so I suppose my Davrods is configured right. Therefore I have a httpd error, and my folder cannot be open.

I know that some files should be created at "/var/lib/davrods/" folder, but nothing goes to there.

[Mon Oct 10 03:37:57.105634 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 7334] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Oct 10 03:37:57.106382 2016] [lbmethod_heartbeat:notice] [pid 7334] AH02282: No slotmem from mod_heartmonitor
[Mon Oct 10 03:37:57.107584 2016] [ssl:warn] [pid 7334] AH01906: RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
[Mon Oct 10 03:37:57.107676 2016] [ssl:warn] [pid 7334] AH02292: Init: Name-based SSL virtual hosts only work for clients with TLS server name indication support (RFC 4366)
[Mon Oct 10 03:37:57.113169 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 7334] AH00163: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Oct 10 03:37:57.113199 2016] [core:notice] [pid 7334] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'
[Mon Oct 10 03:38:20.771421 2016] [dav:error] [pid 7336] [client 145.117.144.224:50005] AH00623: Failed to query lock-null status for /var/www/html/

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<VirtualHost _default_:443>
    ServerName fedora20.ebioscience.amc.nl:443
    ServerAlias 145.117.144.230:443
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/irods/ssl/irods.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/irods/ssl/irods.key
    SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/irods/ssl/irods.crt
    SSLCACertificateFile /etc/irods/ssl/irods.crt
    <Location />
       DirectoryIndex disabled
        AuthType Basic
        Require valid-user
        AuthName DAV
        Dav On
        RewriteEngine off
        AuthBasicProvider irods
        Dav davrods-locallock
        DavRodsEnvFile  /etc/httpd/irods/irods_environment.json
        DavRodsServer fedora20.ebioscience.amc.nl 1247
        DavRodsZone tempZone
        DavRodsAuthScheme PAM
        DavRodsExposedRoot  Home
    </Location>
</VirtualHost>

After having enabled WebDav on an Apache httpd 2.2, i want to give access to a specific directory (that has not to do with other sites managed by httpd).
What is the smallest set of entries to do this?

I've just started experimenting with WebDAV under Apache 2.2 on CentOS 5. It works well although the Windows WebDAV client is clunky and nowhere near as seamless as it should be.

When a user deletes a file through WebDAV, is there a way to have it moved to a specified folder on the server rather than deleted?
So you could setup a sort of trash folder so that anything deleted could be recoverable by an admin with server access?

My team has a web application running on apache2 that allows us to download and upload files.

The document root is /var/www/html.

Obviously we don't want anybody to see our work papers, so we created a /files directory (inside the root of the filesystem) The web application uploads files to that directory and download stuff from there.

What we want now, is to get webdav access to the /files directory, but with apache i was only able to set webdav access for directories inside the document root.

<Location /files>
Dav On
AuthType Basic
AuthName "login please"
AuthUSerFIle /var/www/passwd/passwords
Require valid-users
</location>

But this directive looks for a directory named files inside the document root

Is it possible to do that outside?

I have a WebDAV user set up that currently gets usernames and passwords from my MySQL Database. I give users the option to use WebDAV for large file uploads (this is for a file sharing service I'm currently developing) but I've reached a little issue I can't seem to figure out.

First of all - how would I go about each user having their own WebDAV root so they can't look into other user's files? I already run a cronjob that checks for any users that enabled WebDAV and automatically creates the directories with the appropriate permissions. I just need some method of telling apache this.

Thanks for any help, I really appreciate it.

I also am aware I could just run a cronjob every minute to generate me an apache config and reload the apache config, but this would just be a little too much overhead and I'd like some more flexibility.