As I attempt to transition from a laptop to an iPad, with no specific reason other than the iPad is sooooo kewl; I need to create my own online storage. Yes I have a Dropbox account, but I don’t control Dropbox.
Here’s what I did, YMMV.
- From Server Admin, make new Web > Realm and set appropriate ACLs.
- Create a folder in location/volume where data for Share is physically located.
- Change permissions of folder to
_www:admin(that’s what works for me) - Create a symlink to the share folder in the folder where your web server looks to for the domain’s data.
I know there’s probably a bit of information missing and if I showed images of the actual steps it might make things a bit clearer but I’m a little paranoid about my server and I don’t want to risk opening it up to further attack.
All this needs to be done before OS X will allow a "Connect to Server..." and mount your WebDAV share.
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This looks awesome, and I’m looking to do the same exact thing. The problem is that I can’t get the share out of my /Library/WebServer/Documents/
Is there something I’m missing? How do i make symlinks? Thanks for the post!
@Manos, here’s what your missing. Put you WebDAV data on any folder attached or accessible to your server locally, perhaps a mounted USB hard drive. This is step 2 above. Change the folder permissions as outlined from the CLI with
chown.The syntax creating a symlink is
sudo ln -s /path/to/data /Library/WebServer/Documents/site_web_folderplease can you explain how to Change permissions of folder to _www:admin
@pitaara, from the Terminal
sudo chown -R _www:admin /path/to/folderThanks, your post verified my own similar PITA debug session. Only thing I can add is I verified your solution by turning on mod_rewrite debugging.
Put these two lines in http_webdavsharing.conf so you see why you need the symbolic link. Basically, Apples mod_rewrite rules don’t point to the configured location of the share point and the symbolic link gets around Apples bug.