Apache WebDAV Configuration

From ProjectDiaStar

Here are instructions for setting up an Apache WebDAV file server and client for DiaStar Media files.

WebDAV File Server

The WebDAV server should be installed on a system other than the DiaStar server. The two systems should be on the same LAN to minimize latency when transferring and playing files. This procedure assumes that there is a working Apache web server already installed.

Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Ensure the web dav modules have been enabled:

LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so

Make files available under the /media uri.

Alias /media /var/lib/diastar/media

<Location /media>
  DAV On
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "diastar"
  AuthUserFile /var/lib/diastar/passwd.dav
  Require valid-user
</Location>

<Directory "/var/lib/diastar/media">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
</Directory>

Ensure /var/lib/diastar/media can be written by the apache user.

$ chown -R root:apache /var/lib/diastar/media 
$ chmod -R 770 /var/lib/diastar/media 

Create the WebDAV password file: /var/lib/diastar/passwd.dav with the user diastar

$ htpasswd -c -b /var/lib/diastar/passwd.dav diastar opendialogic

You will be prompted to enter a password for the user diastar. [opendialogic]

Change the permissions of the passwd.dav file so that only root and the members of the apache group can access it:

$ chown root:apache /var/lib/diastar/passwd.dav
$ chmod 640 /var/lib/diastar/passwd.dav

Restart the server:

$ service httpd restart

DiaStar WebDAV Client

Several packages must be added to a DiaStar ISO installation to use it as a WebDAV client:

fuse-2.6.3-2.el5.kb.i386.rpm
neon-0.25.5-10.el5.i386.rpm
fuse-davfs2-1.2.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Locate, download and install these with:

# rpm -ivh <package_name>

When these have been installed, create a mount point for the remote file system;

# mkdir -m 0666 -p /var/lib/diastar/media

The WebDav mount may either be done manually:

# mount.davfs  http://<WebDAV Server IP Addr>/media  /var/lib/diastar/media

or the following line added to /etc/fstab:

http://<WebDAV Server IP Addr>/media   /var/lib/diastar/media   davfs   noauto,user   0   

and then mounted with:

# mount /var/lib/diastar/media

Note that the file system cannot be automatically mounted. It is necessary to supply the username and password (diastar, opendialogic) when the WebDAV file system is mounted.