[gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

Apologies if this is off-topic here but I don't know where else to ask. I'm 
having trouble getting owncloud installed on my LAN mini-server. Its post-inst 
check complains "the WebDAV interface seems to be broken."

I found this how-to but it's getting long in the tooth:
	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-338668-start-0.html
If I include all the extras under <IfModule mod_dav.c> I get permission 
refused to run post-inst-check, even if I comment out the <Limit> block.	I did 
do the parts about /var/dav, /var/lib/dav and htpasswd.

I've added DAV and DAV_FS to APACHE2_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache2, but when I 
restart apache no DAV module is listed in the output from apache2 -M.

Can anyone see what I'm missing?

-- 
Regards
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:55:59 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> Apologies if this is off-topic here but I don't know where else to ask.
> I'm having trouble getting owncloud installed on my LAN mini-server.
> Its post-inst check complains "the WebDAV interface seems to be broken."

It works for me here.
 
> I found this how-to but it's getting long in the tooth:
> 	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-338668-start-0.html
> If I include all the extras under <IfModule mod_dav.c> I get permission 
> refused to run post-inst-check, even if I comment out the <Limit>
> block.	I did do the parts about /var/dav, /var/lib/dav and
> htpasswd.

I didn't need to do any of that.
 
> I've added DAV and DAV_FS to APACHE2_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache2, but
> when I restart apache no DAV module is listed in the output from
> apache2 -M.

Do you have the modules installed? Here APACHE_MODULES contains "dav
dav_fs dav_lock" and /etc/conf.d/apache2 has only one line

APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D SSL -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST -D LANGUAGE -D SUEXEC -D PHP5 -D PHP -D DAV


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Stupid user error. Terminate user (Y/n) ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday 28 Feb 2014 11:01:07 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:55:59 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Apologies if this is off-topic here but I don't know where else to ask.
> > I'm having trouble getting owncloud installed on my LAN mini-server.
> > Its post-inst check complains "the WebDAV interface seems to be broken."
> 
> It works for me here.

I was sure it would ;-)

--->8

> Do you have the modules installed? Here APACHE_MODULES contains "dav
> dav_fs dav_lock"

I don't have APACHE2_MODULES set in make.conf; portage includes a default set.

> and /etc/conf.d/apache2 has only one line
> 
> APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D SSL -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST -D
> LANGUAGE -D SUEXEC -D PHP5 -D PHP -D DAV

Mine's the same except that it doesn't have -D PHP. After what Nilesh said 
I'll take -D DAV out again. I didn't have -D SUEXEC and I thought that might 
be my problem, but putting it in didn't fix it.

-- 
Regards
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Mick]

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On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 15:21:48 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D SSL -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST -D
> > LANGUAGE -D SUEXEC -D PHP5 -D PHP -D DAV
> 
> Mine's the same except that it doesn't have -D PHP. After what Nilesh said 
> I'll take -D DAV out again. I didn't have -D SUEXEC and I thought that
> might  be my problem, but putting it in didn't fix it.

Also try '-D DAV_FS'.

You will need -D PHP if your owncloud is running on php code.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 16:09:16 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 15:21:48 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D SSL -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST -D
> > > LANGUAGE -D SUEXEC -D PHP5 -D PHP -D DAV
> > 
> > Mine's the same except that it doesn't have -D PHP. After what Nilesh said
> > I'll take -D DAV out again. I didn't have -D SUEXEC and I thought that
> > might  be my problem, but putting it in didn't fix it.
> 
> Also try '-D DAV_FS'.

I should have said I tried that as well as -D DAV. But Nilesh said I don't 
need DAV support in apache2 at all for owncloud because it comes bundled.

> You will need -D PHP if your owncloud is running on php code.

But I do have -D PHP5. Isn't that enough?

-- 
Regards
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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On 02-Mar-2014 7:05 am, "Peter Humphrey" <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 16:09:16 Mick wrote:
> > On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 15:21:48 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D SSL -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST
-D
> > > > LANGUAGE -D SUEXEC -D PHP5 -D PHP -D DAV
> > >
> > > Mine's the same except that it doesn't have -D PHP. After what Nilesh
said
> > > I'll take -D DAV out again. I didn't have -D SUEXEC and I thought that
> > > might  be my problem, but putting it in didn't fix it.
> >
> > Also try '-D DAV_FS'.
>
> I should have said I tried that as well as -D DAV. But Nilesh said I don't
> need DAV support in apache2 at all for owncloud because it comes bundled.
>
> > You will need -D PHP if your owncloud is running on php code.
>
> But I do have -D PHP5. Isn't that enough?
>
> --
> Regards
> Peter
>
>

I don't use mod_php, so no idea about that.
But just note that Apache must be able to run php scripts.

Maybe try executing a script like

<?php

phpinfo ();

?>

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday 28 Feb 2014 11:01:07 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:55:59 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Apologies if this is off-topic here but I don't know where else to ask.
> > I'm having trouble getting owncloud installed on my LAN mini-server.
> > Its post-inst check complains "the WebDAV interface seems to be broken."
> 
> It works for me here.

--->8

Neil, would you mind comparing your USE flags for dev-lang/php with mine, 
please? I have this:

[ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/php-5.5.10:5.5  USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2 calendar 
cgi cli crypt ctype curl exif fileinfo filter fpm ftp gd gdbm gmp hash iconv 
intl ipv6 json mysql mysqli nls opcache pdo phar posix readline session 
simplexml sqlite ssl tokenizer truetype unicode xml xmlwriter zip zlib -bcmath 
-cdb -cjk -debug -embed -enchant -firebird -flatfile -frontbase -imap -inifile -
iodbc -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit -libmysqlclient -mhash -mssql -oci8-
instant-client -odbc -pcntl -postgres -qdbm -recode (-selinux) -sharedmem -
snmp -soap -sockets -spell -sybase-ct -systemd -sysvipc -threads -tidy -wddx -
xmlreader -xmlrpc -xpm -xslt" 12,796 kB

I'm still getting the broken-WebDAV error.

-- 
Regards
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:19:07 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> Neil, would you mind comparing your USE flags for dev-lang/php with
> mine, please? I have this:
> 
> [ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/php-5.5.10:5.5  USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2
> calendar cgi cli crypt ctype curl exif fileinfo filter fpm ftp gd gdbm
> gmp hash iconv intl ipv6 json mysql mysqli nls opcache pdo phar posix
> readline session simplexml sqlite ssl tokenizer truetype unicode xml
> xmlwriter zip zlib -bcmath -cdb -cjk -debug -embed -enchant -firebird
> -flatfile -frontbase -imap -inifile - iodbc -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl
> -libedit -libmysqlclient -mhash -mssql -oci8- instant-client -odbc
> -pcntl -postgres -qdbm -recode (-selinux) -sharedmem - snmp -soap
> -sockets -spell -sybase-ct -systemd -sysvipc -threads -tidy -wddx -
> xmlreader -xmlrpc -xpm -xslt" 12,796 kB

I have

[ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/php-5.5.10:5.5  USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2 cgi
cli crypt ctype curl fileinfo filter gd gdbm hash iconv ipv6 json mysql
nls opcache pdo phar posix readline session simplexml sqlite ssl
tokenizer unicode xml xmlwriter zip zlib -bcmath -calendar -cdb -cjk
-debug -embed -enchant -exif -firebird -flatfile -fpm (-frontbase) -ftp
-gmp -imap -inifile -intl -iodbc -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit
-libmysqlclient -mhash -mssql -mysqli -oci8-instant-client -odbc -pcntl
-postgres -qdbm -recode (-selinux) -sharedmem -snmp -soap -sockets -spell
(-sybase-ct) -systemd -sysvipc -threads -tidy -truetype -wddx -xmlreader
-xmlrpc -xpm -xslt" 0 kB


-- 
Neil Bothwick

We are upping our standards - so up yours.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 13 Mar 2014 00:51:39 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:19:07 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Neil, would you mind comparing your USE flags for dev-lang/php with
> > mine, please? I have this:
> > 
> > [ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/php-5.5.10:5.5  USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2
> > calendar cgi cli crypt ctype curl exif fileinfo filter fpm ftp gd gdbm
> > gmp hash iconv intl ipv6 json mysql mysqli nls opcache pdo phar posix
> > readline session simplexml sqlite ssl tokenizer truetype unicode xml
> > xmlwriter zip zlib -bcmath -cdb -cjk -debug -embed -enchant -firebird
> > -flatfile -frontbase -imap -inifile - iodbc -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl
> > -libedit -libmysqlclient -mhash -mssql -oci8- instant-client -odbc
> > -pcntl -postgres -qdbm -recode (-selinux) -sharedmem - snmp -soap
> > -sockets -spell -sybase-ct -systemd -sysvipc -threads -tidy -wddx -
> > xmlreader -xmlrpc -xpm -xslt" 12,796 kB
> 
> I have
> 
> [ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/php-5.5.10:5.5  USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2 cgi
> cli crypt ctype curl fileinfo filter gd gdbm hash iconv ipv6 json mysql
> nls opcache pdo phar posix readline session simplexml sqlite ssl
> tokenizer unicode xml xmlwriter zip zlib -bcmath -calendar -cdb -cjk
> -debug -embed -enchant -exif -firebird -flatfile -fpm (-frontbase) -ftp
> -gmp -imap -inifile -intl -iodbc -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit
> -libmysqlclient -mhash -mssql -mysqli -oci8-instant-client -odbc -pcntl
> -postgres -qdbm -recode (-selinux) -sharedmem -snmp -soap -sockets -spell
> (-sybase-ct) -systemd -sysvipc -threads -tidy -truetype -wddx -xmlreader
> -xmlrpc -xpm -xslt" 0 kB

Thanks Neil. That isn't the answer then.

-- 
Regards
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 13 Mar 2014 00:51:39 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:19:07 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Neil, would you mind comparing your USE flags for dev-lang/php with
> > mine, please? I have this:
> > 
> > [ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/php-5.5.10:5.5  USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2
> > calendar cgi cli crypt ctype curl exif fileinfo filter fpm ftp gd gdbm
> > gmp hash iconv intl ipv6 json mysql mysqli nls opcache pdo phar posix
> > readline session simplexml sqlite ssl tokenizer truetype unicode xml
> > xmlwriter zip zlib -bcmath -cdb -cjk -debug -embed -enchant -firebird
> > -flatfile -frontbase -imap -inifile - iodbc -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl
> > -libedit -libmysqlclient -mhash -mssql -oci8- instant-client -odbc
> > -pcntl -postgres -qdbm -recode (-selinux) -sharedmem - snmp -soap
> > -sockets -spell -sybase-ct -systemd -sysvipc -threads -tidy -wddx -
> > xmlreader -xmlrpc -xpm -xslt" 12,796 kB
> 
> I have
> 
> [ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/php-5.5.10:5.5  USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2 cgi
> cli crypt ctype curl fileinfo filter gd gdbm hash iconv ipv6 json mysql
> nls opcache pdo phar posix readline session simplexml sqlite ssl
> tokenizer unicode xml xmlwriter zip zlib -bcmath -calendar -cdb -cjk
> -debug -embed -enchant -exif -firebird -flatfile -fpm (-frontbase) -ftp
> -gmp -imap -inifile -intl -iodbc -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit
> -libmysqlclient -mhash -mssql -mysqli -oci8-instant-client -odbc -pcntl
> -postgres -qdbm -recode (-selinux) -sharedmem -snmp -soap -sockets -spell
> (-sybase-ct) -systemd -sysvipc -threads -tidy -truetype -wddx -xmlreader
> -xmlrpc -xpm -xslt" 0 kB

And what about apache? I have:

[binary  N     ] www-servers/apache-2.2.25:2  USE="ssl suexec -debug -doc -
ldap (-selinux) -static -threads" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic 
authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm 
authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache 
cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter 
file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic 
negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack 
vhost_alias -asis -auth_digest -authn_dbd -cern_meta -charset_lite -dbd -
dumpio -ident -imagemap -log_forensic -proxy -proxy_ajp -proxy_balancer -
proxy_connect -proxy_ftp -proxy_http -proxy_scgi -reqtimeout -substitute -
version" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork -event -itk -peruser -worker" 0 kB

Do I need to switch to a threaded MPM?

-- 
Regards
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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On 28 Feb 2014 16:26, "Peter Humphrey" <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> Apologies if this is off-topic here but I don't know where else to ask.
I'm
> having trouble getting owncloud installed on my LAN mini-server. Its
post-inst
> check complains "the WebDAV interface seems to be broken."
>
> I found this how-to but it's getting long in the tooth:
>         http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-338668-start-0.html
> If I include all the extras under <IfModule mod_dav.c> I get permission
> refused to run post-inst-check, even if I comment out the <Limit> block.
       I did
> do the parts about /var/dav, /var/lib/dav and htpasswd.
>
> I've added DAV and DAV_FS to APACHE2_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache2, but
when I
> restart apache no DAV module is listed in the output from apache2 -M.
>
> Can anyone see what I'm missing?
>
> --
> Regards
> Peter
>

You don't need moddav for owncloud. Owncloud implements it via php.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday 28 Feb 2014 16:31:39 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:

> You don't need moddav for owncloud. Owncloud implements it via php.

Now I am confused. Do I need to add or remove a USE flag from php or owncloud?

# emerge -pv owncloud php
...
[ebuild   R   ~] www-apps/owncloud-6.0.1:6.0.1  USE="curl mysql -postgres -
sqlite -vhosts" 0 kB
[ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/php-5.5.9:5.5  USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2 calendar 
cgi cli crypt ctype curl exif fileinfo filter fpm ftp gd gdbm gmp hash iconv 
intl json mysql mysqli nls opcache pdo phar posix readline session simplexml 
sqlite ssl tokenizer truetype unicode xml xmlwriter zip zlib -bcmath -cdb -cjk 
-debug -embed -enchant -firebird -flatfile -frontbase -imap -inifile -iodbc -ipv6 
-kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit -libmysqlclient -mhash -mssql -oci8-
instant-client -odbc -pcntl -postgres -qdbm -recode (-selinux) -sharedmem -
snmp -soap -sockets -spell -sybase-ct -systemd -sysvipc -threads -tidy -wddx -
xmlreader -xmlrpc -xpm -xslt" 0 kB

I decided to try mysql (mariadb, actually) rather than sqlite; maybe I should 
revert to the simpler setup, or maybe I've missed something here:

wstn / # emerge -pv mysql mariadb
...
[ebuild   R   ~] dev-db/mariadb-5.5.32  USE="community pam perl ssl -cluster -
debug -embedded -extraengine -jemalloc -latin1 -max-idx-128 -minimal -oqgraph 
(-pbxt) -profiling (-selinux) -sphinx -static -systemtap -tcmalloc {-test}" 0 
kB
[ebuild   R   ~] virtual/mysql-5.5  USE="-embedded -minimal -static" 0 kB

-- 
Regards
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Mick]

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On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 11:13:40 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 28 Feb 2014 16:31:39 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> > You don't need moddav for owncloud. Owncloud implements it via php.
> 
> Now I am confused. Do I need to add or remove a USE flag from php or
> owncloud?

I can't advise on owncloud, because I hadn't heard of it until now.  In a 
vanilla apache installation you would need to do the following:


1. Set up the dav, dav_fs, dav_lock USE flags in apache, remerge it and 
restart it.


2. Check that /etc/apache2/httpd.conf shows:

<IfDefine DAV>
LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine DAV>
LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine DAV>
LoadModule dav_lock_module modules/mod_dav_lock.so
</IfDefine>


3. Set up your vhost fs to enable webdav access to it:

  <VirtualHost *:80>
          ServerName example.com
          ServerAlias my_example.com
          DocumentRoot /var/www/dev.example.com/htdocs
          <Location />
             Dav On
             AuthType Basic
             AuthUserFile /var/www/.basic_password
             AuthName "My WebDav Site - Admin Access Only!"
             Require user My_User
          </Location>
  </VirtualHost>


4. Configure your corresponding modules.d vhost file:

  <Directory "/var/www/dev.example.com/htdocs">
          Options FollowSymlinks
          AllowOverride All
          Order deny,allow
          Allow from all
  </Directory>


5. Configure the installed webdav module file.  I don't know what are the 
defaults but this is what I have in my /etc/apache2/modules.d/45_mod_dav.conf:

<IfDefine DAV>
DavLockDB "/var/lib/dav/lockdb"

# The following directives disable redirects on non-GET requests for
# a directory that does not include the trailing slash.  This fixes a
# problem with several clients that do not appropriately handle
# redirects for folders with DAV methods.
<IfModule setenvif_module>
BrowserMatch "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider" redirect-
carefully
BrowserMatch "MS FrontPage" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDrive" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDAVFS/1.[012345678]" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^gnome-vfs/1.0" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^XML Spy" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^Dreamweaver-WebDAV-SCM1" redirect-carefully
</IfModule>
</IfDefine>


6. Set up /etc/conf.d/apache2 to start the DAV option.  In mine I have both '-
D DAV' and  '-D DAV_FS', but I don't know if apache-2.4 needs the latter to be 
explicitly started by apachectl or if it is loaded by the DAV module.


Restart apache and you should be able to access the fs from a browser, with 
username 'My_User' and whatever password you have created with htpasswd.  If 
you don't trust the network and therefore you don't want to be sending 
credentials in the clear, enable SSL.

I hope I haven't missed anything important here.  Have a look at the online 
apache documentation for more advanced settings, if you want to lock down what 
webdav will allow, otherwise keep an eye on your apache logs to see if there 
are any errors.

HTH.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 12:08:17 Mick wrote:

--->8

> I hope I haven't missed anything important here.  Have a look at the online
> apache documentation for more advanced settings, if you want to lock down
> what webdav will allow, otherwise keep an eye on your apache logs to see if
> there are any errors.
> 
> HTH.

I must thank you for the work you put into that, Mick, but Nilesh has said I 
don't need DAV in Apache because it comes bundled with owncloud. I believe him 
too, from an earlier, successful attempt on the same box but with the now 
defunct spinning disk. (Surely, substituting an SSD can't have affected this? 
It's the only difference I can think of at the moment, though.)

-- 
Regards
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Mick]

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On Sunday 02 Mar 2014 02:47:09 Peter Humphrey wrote:

> I must thank you for the work you put into that, Mick, 

You're welcome.  :-)

> but Nilesh has said
> I don't need DAV in Apache because it comes bundled with owncloud. I
> believe him too, from an earlier, successful attempt on the same box but
> with the now defunct spinning disk. (Surely, substituting an SSD can't
> have affected this? It's the only difference I can think of at the moment,
> though.)

WebDAV through apache is only one way of achieving a webDAV protocol 
implementation.  From what Nilesh has said it must be that owncloud is using 
something like SabreDAV or some such php webDAV extension to implement webDAV 
through php alone.  In this case skip my suggestions because you will need to 
walk through the owncloud set up instead.

Your owncloud website can be set up as a vhost account in apache, if you have 
more than one website/domain being served from the same web server.  Other 
than that I would think that all the configuration for owncloud would be 
performed through ownclouds GUI, or php configuration files.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Mick]

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On Sunday 02 Mar 2014 11:31:25 Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 02 Mar 2014 02:47:09 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I must thank you for the work you put into that, Mick,
> 
> You're welcome.  :-)
> 
> > but Nilesh has said
> > I don't need DAV in Apache because it comes bundled with owncloud. I
> > believe him too, from an earlier, successful attempt on the same box but
> > with the now defunct spinning disk. (Surely, substituting an SSD can't
> > have affected this? It's the only difference I can think of at the
> > moment, though.)
> 
> WebDAV through apache is only one way of achieving a webDAV protocol
> implementation.  From what Nilesh has said it must be that owncloud is
> using something like SabreDAV or some such php webDAV extension to
> implement webDAV through php alone.  In this case skip my suggestions
> because you will need to walk through the owncloud set up instead.
> 
> Your owncloud website can be set up as a vhost account in apache, if you
> have more than one website/domain being served from the same web server. 
> Other than that I would think that all the configuration for owncloud
> would be performed through ownclouds GUI, or php configuration files.

Peter, have a look here, it says that you should explicitly switch off webDAV 
at your apache, with "Dav Off":

http://doc.owncloud.org/server/6.0/admin_manual/installation/installation_source.html

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 02 Mar 2014 02:47:09 Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> > I must thank you for the work you put into that, Mick,
>
> You're welcome.  :-)
>
> > but Nilesh has said
> > I don't need DAV in Apache because it comes bundled with owncloud. I
> > believe him too, from an earlier, successful attempt on the same box but
> > with the now defunct spinning disk. (Surely, substituting an SSD can't
> > have affected this? It's the only difference I can think of at the
> moment,
> > though.)
>
> WebDAV through apache is only one way of achieving a webDAV protocol
> implementation.  From what Nilesh has said it must be that owncloud is
> using
> something like SabreDAV or some such php webDAV extension to implement
> webDAV
> through php alone.  In this case skip my suggestions because you will need
> to
> walk through the owncloud set up instead.
>
> Your owncloud website can be set up as a vhost account in apache, if you
> have
> more than one website/domain being served from the same web server.  Other
> than that I would think that all the configuration for owncloud would be
> performed through ownclouds GUI, or php configuration files.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

Yes you're right, it uses SabreDAV.
https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/master/lib/private/davclient.php#L28

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>wrote:

> On Friday 28 Feb 2014 16:31:39 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>
> > You don't need moddav for owncloud. Owncloud implements it via php.
>
> Now I am confused. Do I need to add or remove a USE flag from php or
> owncloud?
>
> # emerge -pv owncloud php
> ...
> [ebuild   R   ~] www-apps/owncloud-6.0.1:6.0.1  USE="curl mysql -postgres -
> sqlite -vhosts" 0 kB
> [ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/php-5.5.9:5.5  USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2 calendar
> cgi cli crypt ctype curl exif fileinfo filter fpm ftp gd gdbm gmp hash
> iconv
> intl json mysql mysqli nls opcache pdo phar posix readline session
> simplexml
> sqlite ssl tokenizer truetype unicode xml xmlwriter zip zlib -bcmath -cdb
> -cjk
> -debug -embed -enchant -firebird -flatfile -frontbase -imap -inifile
> -iodbc -ipv6
> -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit -libmysqlclient -mhash -mssql -oci8-
> instant-client -odbc -pcntl -postgres -qdbm -recode (-selinux) -sharedmem -
> snmp -soap -sockets -spell -sybase-ct -systemd -sysvipc -threads -tidy
> -wddx -
> xmlreader -xmlrpc -xpm -xslt" 0 kB
>
> I decided to try mysql (mariadb, actually) rather than sqlite; maybe I
> should
> revert to the simpler setup, or maybe I've missed something here:
>
> wstn / # emerge -pv mysql mariadb
> ...
> [ebuild   R   ~] dev-db/mariadb-5.5.32  USE="community pam perl ssl
> -cluster -
> debug -embedded -extraengine -jemalloc -latin1 -max-idx-128 -minimal
> -oqgraph
> (-pbxt) -profiling (-selinux) -sphinx -static -systemtap -tcmalloc
> {-test}" 0
> kB
> [ebuild   R   ~] virtual/mysql-5.5  USE="-embedded -minimal -static" 0 kB
>
> --
> Regards
> Peter
>
>
>

Nothing to get confused. Just install ownCloud like you'd install Wordpress
on Apache server, i.e. configure apache to run php scripts some way and run
the owncloud installer. That's it.
Since ownCloud has automatic update facility, I don't install it using
portage.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[covici]

Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 28 Feb 2014 16:31:39 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> >
> > > You don't need moddav for owncloud. Owncloud implements it via php.
> >
> > Now I am confused. Do I need to add or remove a USE flag from php or
> > owncloud?
> >
> > # emerge -pv owncloud php
> > ...
> > [ebuild   R   ~] www-apps/owncloud-6.0.1:6.0.1  USE="curl mysql -postgres -
> > sqlite -vhosts" 0 kB
> > [ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/php-5.5.9:5.5  USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2 calendar
> > cgi cli crypt ctype curl exif fileinfo filter fpm ftp gd gdbm gmp hash
> > iconv
> > intl json mysql mysqli nls opcache pdo phar posix readline session
> > simplexml
> > sqlite ssl tokenizer truetype unicode xml xmlwriter zip zlib -bcmath -cdb
> > -cjk
> > -debug -embed -enchant -firebird -flatfile -frontbase -imap -inifile
> > -iodbc -ipv6
> > -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit -libmysqlclient -mhash -mssql -oci8-
> > instant-client -odbc -pcntl -postgres -qdbm -recode (-selinux) -sharedmem -
> > snmp -soap -sockets -spell -sybase-ct -systemd -sysvipc -threads -tidy
> > -wddx -
> > xmlreader -xmlrpc -xpm -xslt" 0 kB
> >
> > I decided to try mysql (mariadb, actually) rather than sqlite; maybe I
> > should
> > revert to the simpler setup, or maybe I've missed something here:
> >
> > wstn / # emerge -pv mysql mariadb
> > ...
> > [ebuild   R   ~] dev-db/mariadb-5.5.32  USE="community pam perl ssl
> > -cluster -
> > debug -embedded -extraengine -jemalloc -latin1 -max-idx-128 -minimal
> > -oqgraph
> > (-pbxt) -profiling (-selinux) -sphinx -static -systemtap -tcmalloc
> > {-test}" 0
> > kB
> > [ebuild   R   ~] virtual/mysql-5.5  USE="-embedded -minimal -static" 0 kB
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Nothing to get confused. Just install ownCloud like you'd install Wordpress
> on Apache server, i.e. configure apache to run php scripts some way and run
> the owncloud installer. That's it.
> Since ownCloud has automatic update facility, I don't install it using
> portage.

I installed owncloud, but I could not sync an iphone -- at least not to
the calendar part of owncloud.  It didn't complain about the password or
anything, but just sat there after I created the account on the phone.
Has anyone gotten such a thing to actually work?

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 11:07:07 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:

> I installed owncloud, but I could not sync an iphone -- at least not to
> the calendar part of owncloud.  It didn't complain about the password or
> anything, but just sat there after I created the account on the phone.
> Has anyone gotten such a thing to actually work?

Sorry to be so late, but I've just thought: have you set the calendar USE flag 
on PHP?

(I still haven't got owncloud to run properly. This is getting tedious.)

-- 
Regards
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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On 15-Mar-2014 8:22 pm, "Peter Humphrey" <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 11:07:07 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>
> > I installed owncloud, but I could not sync an iphone -- at least not to
> > the calendar part of owncloud.  It didn't complain about the password or
> > anything, but just sat there after I created the account on the phone.
> > Has anyone gotten such a thing to actually work?
>
> Sorry to be so late, but I've just thought: have you set the calendar USE
flag
> on PHP?
>
> (I still haven't got owncloud to run properly. This is getting tedious.)
>
> --
> Regards
> Peter
>
>

Seriously, what's so difficult about it? It's just like deploying a
WordPress blog.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 15 Mar 2014 20:26:27 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> On 15-Mar-2014 8:22 pm, "Peter Humphrey" <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
--->8
> > (I still haven't got owncloud to run properly. This is getting tedious.)
> > 
> > --
> > Regards
> > Peter
> 
> Seriously, what's so difficult about it? It's just like deploying a
> WordPress blog.

(...which I'm facing with increasing trepidation.  :-(  )

I have two difficulties: configuring apache properly, which I seem not to 
understand yet, and fixing owncloud so that it doesn't throw up a broken-WebDAV 
error.

Mick has offered plenty of advice on configuring apache, but still I don't 
understand clearly. Copying things around blindly doesn't do the job, of 
course. I did get it more-or-less working for a local choir's website but that 
didn't use SSL - and my backups don't go back far enough anyway.

I've cleared out the whole apache package and I'm about to start again (again) 
on setting it up with a modules.d/ file and a vhosts.d/ file to use SSL. Sounds 
easy, as you say.

-- 
Regards
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Mick]

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On Saturday 15 Mar 2014 15:47:04 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 15 Mar 2014 20:26:27 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> > On 15-Mar-2014 8:22 pm, "Peter Humphrey" <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> --->8
> 
> > > (I still haven't got owncloud to run properly. This is getting
> > > tedious.)
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Regards
> > > Peter
> > 
> > Seriously, what's so difficult about it? It's just like deploying a
> > WordPress blog.
> 
> (...which I'm facing with increasing trepidation.  :-(  )
> 
> I have two difficulties: configuring apache properly, which I seem not to
> understand yet, and fixing owncloud so that it doesn't throw up a
> broken-WebDAV error.
> 
> Mick has offered plenty of advice on configuring apache, but still I don't
> understand clearly. Copying things around blindly doesn't do the job, of
> course. I did get it more-or-less working for a local choir's website but
> that didn't use SSL - and my backups don't go back far enough anyway.
> 
> I've cleared out the whole apache package and I'm about to start again
> (again) on setting it up with a modules.d/ file and a vhosts.d/ file to
> use SSL. Sounds easy, as you say.

Peter, I'm happy to help offline if you don't want to bother the list.

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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 20:55:46 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:

> Nothing to get confused. Just install ownCloud like you'd install Wordpress
> on Apache server, i.e. configure apache to run php scripts some way and run
> the owncloud installer. That's it.

So no need for vhosts then? I'll set it up that way if I have to, but I'd 
rather avoid the extra complication pro tem.

> Since ownCloud has automatic update facility, I don't install it using
> portage.

Ah. I hadn't thought of bypassing portage. Perhaps I should.

-- 
Regards
Peter