Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] phpWebHosting (DAV)

[Bob Crandell]

The web browser is unknown.  I imagine it's IE 5.x, Mozilla or Netscape.

Thanks for the info.  I'm going to be taking a closer look at it soon.

Jonathon Sim (address@hidden) wrote*:
>
>On Thursday 21 Nov 2002 7:14 pm, Bob Crandell wrote:
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> Can it work as just simple file storage?  All they want to do is offer a
>> safe place to give access to some files for their clients outside the
>> office without opening the FTP port.
>>
>Phpwebhosting would be ideal for this - give it a go.  Users would access
>their files from a web interface.
>
>If you want your users to be able to access thier files directly  then WebDAV
>might be a good solution.  In Windows (IE6) users can mount a DAV share as a
>"web folder" - In XP (and even 2000 I think) you can mount it as a drive.
>Linux can mount a dav share, KDE supports it nicely, as does MacOS X.
>
>In fact, if you dont care too much about stuff like locking and metadata
>(working on it, but its not ready for production yet) one thing you could do
>is simply share the directory that you setup phpgroupware to use for files
>via WebDAV.  To do this you would edit your Apache config file
>(/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf on Redhat, but it depends how Apache is
>installed).   Many of these settings may already be set for you:
>
>* Make sure it contains something like this:
>LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
>LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
>
>* and this:
><IfModule mod_dav_fs.c>
>    # Location of the WebDAV lock database.
>    DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb
></IfModule>
>
>(make sure the DavLockDB exists)
>
>* Then add this to the bottom:
>
> <Directory /gwfiles>
> Dav On
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "Your Password Please"
> AuthUserfile /etc/httpd/conf/davusers.htpasswd
># require user hoge #To limit access to one user
> </Directory>
>
>* Make the directory groupware stores your files in is something like:
>/var/www/html/gwfiles (this is if you want them to also be able to use
>groupware - nice if they dont understand WebDAV)
>(replace /var/www/html/ with your apache server root)
>
>* Now you can add users/passwords like so:
>htpasswd  /etc/httpd/conf/davusers.htpasswd <username>
>
>*  Restart apache.
>And then they should be able to access the files via WebDAV.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>
>
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