Enabling WebDav on Leopard

InsomniaCalls · 1 Jan 2008 at 17:39

Hi Guys,

Still fairly new to Macs so started to make use of iCal this weekend.
I want to publish my calendar but can't be doing with .Mac or any third party malarky so I've enabled web sharing and am trying to enable WebDav.

Does anyone have any tips on doing this on Leopard?
I'm following a guide online (linked below) but the first command brings me to a different screen to what I'm expecting.
Link: http://www.gregwestin.com/webdav_for_ical.php

I'm starting in Terminal and typing the command as below:

This brings up:

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Im used to IIS so not got any Apache experience (or Terminal for that matter!)

Thanks

Si

killsta · 1 Jan 2008 at 17:45

You need to be in /etc/apache2

So vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

InsomniaCalls · 1 Jan 2008 at 18:23

Thanks

Unfortunately the rest of the guide appears to refer to what I presume is a previous version of Apache too.

The lines below don't exist in the config file:
#LoadModule digest_module libexec/httpd/mod_digest.so
#LoadModule dav_module libexec/httpd/libdav.so, #AddModule mod_digest.c
#AddModule mod_dav.c

Can I presume that these elements are covered elsewhere and the default state is enabled or is that too much to hope for?

killsta · 1 Jan 2008 at 18:56

The modules won't be enabled unless they appear uncommented (no #) in httpd.conf.

InsomniaCalls · 1 Jan 2008 at 19:43

So if the modules specified aren't in http.conf at all does that mean they need to be manually added?

killsta · 1 Jan 2008 at 20:07

Possibly, depends whether the modules are compiled and installed

InsomniaCalls · 2 Jan 2008 at 11:20

Thanks for your help so far!

I found the instructions below for Leopard but am struggling a bit

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showpost.php?p=424655&postcount=5

I've followed this all to the letter (substituting my own directories) but I'm getting a forbidden message when I access the directory at http://localhost/ical

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /ical on this server.

I was under the impression it should be prompting me for the credentials I specified in the .htpassword file but it isn't. Setting the location as a server in iCal with the credentials I specified fails too.

I've spent far too long on this now but I refuse to give up!

Any more help would be great.

Cheers

killsta · 2 Jan 2008 at 17:49

What do you have in your .htaccess?

InsomniaCalls · 2 Jan 2008 at 18:24

AuthName "DAV Restricted"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /Library/WebServer/.htpassword

require valid-user

killsta · 2 Jan 2008 at 18:39

What's the permissions on it and the .htpasswd?

And also permissions on the directories /Library and /Library/Webserver?

InsomniaCalls · 2 Jan 2008 at 18:50

I'm not sure how to check if I'm honest.
I did sudo chown www:www <path> for each but no idea beyond that.

killsta · 2 Jan 2008 at 18:53

ls -al

InsomniaCalls · 2 Jan 2008 at 19:08

Cheers

drwxrwxr-t+ 54 _www _www 1836 1 Jan 18:13 Library
drwxrwxr-x 9 _www _www 306 2 Jan 10:27 WebServer
-rw-r--r-- 1 _www _www 22 2 Jan 10:27 .htpassword
-rw-r--r-- 1 _www _www 98 2 Jan 10:51 .htaccess

killsta · 2 Jan 2008 at 19:24

Hmm not sure off the top of my head, I'll have a look into it on my MacBook in a couple of days and get back to you

InsomniaCalls · 2 Jan 2008 at 19:26

Thanks