Web Server Apache User Authentication (WebDAV)

Hello Friends !!

WebDAV is Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. Mostly we have many web developers and programmers working on the same site, with access to some particular folder in the web development server. There are a lot of way that we can used to manage remote file and doing web publishing in the same time like FTP, Samba etc and many other sharing protocol.

The best thing about WebDAV is it allow for file locking if someone is editing the file. It is suitable with my environment and I need to deliver this via our web server (Apache). Variables as below:

OS: CentOS 5.6

Web server: Apache 2.2.3
Web root: /home/sahil/public_html
WebDAV user1: sahil
WebDAV password: sahilweb
WebDAV user2: faiz
WebDAV password: faizweb

Install Apache via yum:-

# yum install httpd* -y

Install php and mysql:-

# yum install php* mysql* -y

Start MySQL and Apache service and Enable in start-up:-

#service mysqld start

#service httpd start

#chkconfig httpd on
#chkconfig mysqld on
Stop Iptable and Selinux and Disable in start-up:-
#iptables -F
#service iptables stop
#chkconfig iptables off
#setenforce 0
Lets Do some changes in configuration file of apache:-
#vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
<VirtualHost *:80> 
 ServerAdmin web.sahil.com 
 DocumentRoot /home/sahil/public_html 
 ServerName sahil.com 
 ErrorLog logs/sahil.com-error_log 
 CustomLog logs/sahil.com-access_log common 
 Alias /sahil /home/sahil/public_html 
 <Location /> 
 DAV On 
 AuthType Digest 
 AuthName "WebDAV_Authentication" 
 AuthUserFile /home/webtest/digest-password 
 Require valid-user 
 </Location> 
</VirtualHost> 
DAVLockDB /tmp/DAVLock 
DAVMinTimeout 600 
:wq!

Save & Quit

Note :- I have created below personal code:-

#vim /home/sahil/public_html/index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<body>

<h3>Please Dont Move We hacked Your PC</h3>

<p>

<img src=”http://i0.tagstat.com/tags7/0dj/0djL_y18p.gif” />

A Moving image:

<img src=”http://www.w3schools.com/html/hackanm.gif” alt=”Smiley face” width=”32″ height=”32″ />

</p>

<h2>Please keep Smiling</h2>

<p>

An image:

<img src=”http://www.w3schools.com/html/smiley.gif” alt=”Computer man” width=”48″ height=”48″ />

</p>

<h1>Ha ha ha ha ha ha</h1>

<img src=”https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/425379_390643270993862_1486767189_n.jpg”/>

<p>

Please click:

<img src=”http://www.htmlgoodies.com/img/homepage.gif” />

</p>

<img src=”http://www.tagged.com/profile.html?uid=5969927012″ />

</body>

</html>

:wq!

Save & Quit

Now Restart the apache service:-

#service httpd restart

Now we will give the password for user authentication:-

#htdigest /home/sahil/digest-password WebDAV_Authentication sahil
Adding password for sahil in realm WebDAV_Authentication.
New password:
Re-type new password:
give the user name and password for authentication Here user is sahil.You can add more user name and pass same as above.
Check user database file after adding users:
Its show like:-
#cat /home/ipmart/digest-password
sahil:WebDAV_Authentication:8f8b04a66ca86ac6524e59fead98
faiz:WebDAV_Authentication:a5874504ddt14b08ad38c7cd846c5dda

Restart the apache :-
#service httpd restart

Open you Browser
http://192.168.1.10/sahil

Shahil
Enjoy  
sahil.jet786@gmail.com
Just Love Linux

Web Server Apache User Authentication (WebDAV)

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