I have enjoyed the clear instructions in "How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Mandriva 2008.1" - but got stuck and need help. Everything runs smoothly and without any error messages until I come to "5 Testing WebDAV" using cadaver: [harms@pcjuergen ~]# cadaver http://www.example.com/webdav/ Could not access /webdav/ (not WebDAV-enabled?): 405 Method Not Allowed Connection to `www.example.com' closed. dav:!> quit I have tried both on Mandriva 2008.1 (no httpd modules installed so far) and 2009.0 (httpd already installed), same result. I am not at all expert in this domain and would be very thankful for any help on how to clarify / proceed (I am quite knowledgeable on general Linux configuration and installation topics). I have found no reference to this problem in the Mandriva forums. http traffic is not blocked by the Mandriva firwall (shorewall). One small comment to the HOWTO: it suggests to install the lighttpd packages and the apache-base package as a single action - if you follow this advice, Mandriva starts by installing lightlpd with the warning warning: group apache does not exist - using root warning: user apache does not exist - using root This can be avoided by, in a first step, only installing apache-base; I suggest to correspondingly adapt the HOWTO when the next revision is done
Thank you for replying. Here is what I can see: The last message in the apache error-log (/var/log/httpd/error_log) is the shutdown message issued when the httpd daemon was stopped. [Wed Jan 14 15:09:31 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down Launching the lighttpd daemon does not produce any messages in that error log (not even the initialisation entries which I get when running the httpd daemon), there is one message in the lighthttpd errorlog (/var/log/lighttpd/error_log) confirming that that daemon really started. 2009-01-14 15:10:43: (log.c.75) server started After launching the lighthttpd daemon, I tried "apachectl status" and get "404 - Not Found". A port scan on the server gives "80/tcp open http lighttpd 1.4.19". That looks OK, it seems like the communication between the lighttpd daemon and the application is not correctly working. While I use the httpd daemon, apache works as it should - I use it for communicating with BackupPC (no modifications done to the configuration files that were installed by the packages).
[root@pcjuergen ~]# netstat -tap Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 *:rsync *:* LISTEN 2955/xinetd tcp 0 0 *:http *:* LISTEN 17187/lighttpd tcp 0 0 *:x11 *:* LISTEN 2452/X tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 3009/proftpd: (acce tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 2994/sshd tcp 0 0 pcjuergen.unige.ch:smtp *:* LISTEN 3186/master tcp 0 0 pcjuergen.local:37514 212.243.221.231:http ESTABLISHED 17057/firefox tcp 0 0 *:x11 *:* LISTEN 2452/X tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 2994/sshd tcp 0 0 *:ipp *:* LISTEN 2793/cupsd --------------- contents of /etc/lighthhpd (some comment lines dropped) # lighttpd configuration file # # use it as a base for lighttpd 1.0.0 and above # # $Id: lighttpd.conf,v 1.7 2004/11/03 22:26:05 weigon Exp $ ############ Options you really have to take care of #################### ## modules to load # at least mod_access and mod_accesslog should be loaded # all other module should only be loaded if really neccesary # - saves some time # - saves memory server.modules = ( # "mod_rewrite", # "mod_redirect", "mod_alias", "mod_access", # "mod_cml", # "mod_trigger_b4_dl", "mod_webdav", "mod_auth", # "mod_status", # "mod_setenv", # "mod_fastcgi", # "mod_proxy", # "mod_simple_vhost", # "mod_evhost", # "mod_userdir", # "mod_cgi", # "mod_compress", # "mod_ssi", # "mod_usertrack", # "mod_expire", # "mod_secdownload", # "mod_rrdtool", "mod_accesslog" ) ## a static document-root, for virtual-hosting take look at the ## server.virtual-* options server.document-root = "/var/www/html" ## where to send error-messages to server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log" # files to check for if .../ is requested index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.htm", "default.htm" ) ## set the event-handler (read the performance section in the manual) # server.event-handler = "freebsd-kqueue" # needed on OS X # mimetype mapping mimetype.assign = ( ".pdf" => "application/pdf", ".sig" => "application/pgp-signature", ".spl" => "application/futuresplash", ".class" => "application/octet-stream", ".ps" => "application/postscript", ".torrent" => "application/x-bittorrent", ".dvi" => "application/x-dvi", ".gz" => "application/x-gzip", ".pac" => "application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig", ".swf" => "application/x-shockwave-flash", ".tar.gz" => "application/x-tgz", ".tgz" => "application/x-tgz", ".tar" => "application/x-tar", ".zip" => "application/zip", ".mp3" => "audio/mpeg", ".m3u" => "audio/x-mpegurl", ".wma" => "audio/x-ms-wma", ".wax" => "audio/x-ms-wax", ".ogg" => "application/ogg", ".wav" => "audio/x-wav", ".gif" => "image/gif", ".jar" => "application/x-java-archive", ".jpg" => "image/jpeg", ".jpeg" => "image/jpeg", ".png" => "image/png", ".xbm" => "image/x-xbitmap", ".xpm" => "image/x-xpixmap", ".xwd" => "image/x-xwindowdump", ".css" => "text/css", ".html" => "text/html", ".htm" => "text/html", ".js" => "text/javascript", ".asc" => "text/plain", ".c" => "text/plain", ".cpp" => "text/plain", ".log" => "text/plain", ".conf" => "text/plain", ".text" => "text/plain", ".txt" => "text/plain", ".dtd" => "text/xml", ".xml" => "text/xml", ".mpeg" => "video/mpeg", ".mpg" => "video/mpeg", ".mov" => "video/quicktime", ".qt" => "video/quicktime", ".avi" => "video/x-msvideo", ".asf" => "video/x-ms-asf", ".asx" => "video/x-ms-asf", ".wmv" => "video/x-ms-wmv", ".bz2" => "application/x-bzip", ".tbz" => "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar", ".tar.bz2" => "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar", # default mime type "" => "application/octet-stream", ) # Use the "Content-Type" extended attribute to obtain mime type if possible #mimetype.use-xattr = "enable" ## send a different Server: header ## be nice and keep it at lighttpd # server.tag = "lighttpd" #### accesslog module accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/access.log" ## deny access the file-extensions # # ~ is for backupfiles from vi, emacs, joe, ... # .inc is often used for code includes which should in general not be part # of the document-root url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" ) $HTTP["url"] =~ "\.pdf$" { server.range-requests = "disable" } ## # which extensions should not be handle via static-file transfer # # .php, .pl, .fcgi are most often handled by mod_fastcgi or mod_cgi static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" ) ######### Options that are good to be but not neccesary to be changed ####### ### --- snip comment lines ### only root can use these options # # chroot() to directory (default: no chroot() ) #server.chroot = "/" ## change uid to <uid> (default: don't care) server.username = "apache" ## change uid to <uid> (default: don't care) server.groupname = "apache" ### --- snip comment lines $HTTP["host"] == "www.example.com" { server.document-root = "/var/www/web1/web" alias.url = ( "/webdav" => "/var/www/web1/web" ) $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/webdav($|/)" { dir-listing.activate = "enable" webdav.activate = "enable" webdav.is-readonly = "disable" auth.backend = "htpasswd" auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "/var/www/web1/passwd.dav" auth.require = ( "" => ( "method" => "basic", "realm" => "webdav", "require" => "valid-user" ) ) } }
Looks like I made a mistake in textually copying the host address as www.example.com - will check that tomorrow Cheers
