Setting up WebDAV... the weird way

Thursday 26 January 2006 9:11:39 am

Hi!

I tried to set up WebDAV on my new hosting plan. Unfortunately, every subdomain points to a directory under my ez-publish root (~/public_html). So webdav.mydomain -> ~/public_html/webdav.
The only possibility to configure the RewriteRules is via .htaccess.
So I placed a .htaccess with

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !^index\.php.* - [C]
RewriteRule .* /index.php?/$1

in the webdav dir and wrote an index.php containing

chdir ("..");
include("webdav.php");

That way I can now access the root-dir of my server via webdav. But changing into an siteaccess gives me an error:

dav:/> ls
Listing collection `/': succeeded.
Coll:   plain_user                             0  Jan 26 10:08
dav:/> cd plain_user 
Could not access /plain_user/ (not WebDAV-enabled?):
Did not find a collection resource.

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Friday 27 January 2006 2:47:24 am

The RewriteRule is completely right as the installation operates in CGI-mode where pages are accessed like this: www.somedomain.net/index.php?/content/view/full/2

The fact that I wasn't aware that the installation was running in CGI-Mode was my whole problem.
So I think our problems aren't that related :-)

I did a few tweaks and now it runs smoothly.
I can even authenticate via http-auth in webdav using the following solution:
Added the following to the WebDAV-RewriteRule:

RewriteRule (.*) /webdav.php/$1?CGI_AUTH_DATA=%{HTTP:Authorization}

Added the following at the top of webdav.php

if((empty($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) or empty($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'])) and isset($_REQUEST['CGI_AUTH_DATA']) and preg_match('/Basic\s+(.*)$/i', $_REQUEST['CGI_AUTH_DATA'], $matc))
       list($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'], $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']) = explode(':', base64_decode($matc[1]));

Voilá, WebDAV in CGI-Mode works!

sp@php.net