egroupware_official/filemanager/doc/INSTALL_WebDAV
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INSTALL : WebDAV file share
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Note: if you don't know what WebDAV is you probably don't need it. The default
vfs_sql is generally faster and easier to setup.
Filemanager's WebDAV support allows you to store your files online in
phpgroupware, in a way that cooperates well with other web applications (for
instance, in Windows you can then access your files as a "web folder", and
similarly KDE, Gnome, MacOSX, and amultitude of applications (eg MS Office and
OpenOffice.org) all include some way of browsing files on a WebDAV share)
Installation
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To install:
1/ Setup a WebDAV server - currently this code has only been well tested using
Apache's mod_dav (http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/). mod_dav is included in
Apache 2, and most Linux distributions include it as a package.
To setup mod_dav ensure that you have the module installed correctly ( RTFM :)
and create a virtual host (eg files.yourdomain.com) something like this:
<VirtualHost files.yourdomain.com:80>
AccessFileName .htaccess
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/files
<Location />
AllowOverride All
Options +Indexes
DAV on
DirectoryIndex /
RemoveHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
RemoveType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3
RemoveType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</Location>
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
#This ensures phpgroupware can modify .htaccess files
order deny,allow
deny from all
#make sure your phpgroupware server is included here.
allow from localhost .localdomain
</Files>
ServerName files.yourdomain.com
ErrorLog logs/dav_err
CustomLog logs/dav_acc combined
</VirtualHost>
2/ On the setup page (phpgroupware/setup/config.php) specify
the WebDAV server URL (eg http://files.yourdomain.com ) in the: "Full path
for users and groups files" text area, and select DAV in the:
"Select where you want to store/retrieve filesystem information"
combo. If your file repository supports SSL you might want to enter
'https://files.yourdomain.com' instead - note that phpGroupWare itself wont
use SSL to access the repository, but when it redirects the users browser to
the repository it will use the secure https url.
3/ Make sure your WebDAV repository contains a "home" directory (important!)
So if your WebDAV directory is /var/files, you would need:
/var/files/
/var/files/home/
4/ (OPTIONAL) Ideally you want some kind of authentication on the WebDAV
repository, so that users accessing it directly still need their phpgroupware
password.
To enable authentication you must use a third-party Apache authentication
module. Which you use depends on how you have setup authentication in
phpGroupWare - for instance if you use an SQL DB (the default) then set up
mod_auth_pgsql (http://www.giuseppetanzilli.it/mod_auth_pgsql/) or
mod_auth_mysql (http://modauthmysql.sourceforge.net/)
An example .htaccess file is included for postgresql - mysql would be
similar. Your file repository also needs to be configured to allow
phpGroupWare to write .htaccess files (the setup in (3) will allow this)
Note that using an Apache module for authentication is not strictly
required in order to use WebDAV within phpGroupWare.