Mac OSX setup for WebDAV Navigator

These instructions have been tested on OSX 10.6.5. To enable WebDAV sharing through your OSX computer follow these steps:

• Enable the DAV extensions within Apache by editing the configuration file
• Open Finder, press COMMAND-SHIFT-G, and enter /etc/apache2/
• Locate the httpd.conf file and open it in a text editor.
• Search for the line #Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-dav.conf, and remove the # at the start of the line, save the file
• Go back to Finder, press COMMAND-SHIFT-G, and then enter /etc/apache2/extra/
• Locate the httpd-dav.conf file and open it in a text editor
• Replace the content of the lines so that they look similar to the following, replace "seanashton" with your own username, and save:

  DavLockDB "/Library/WebServer/davlocks/DAVLockDB"
  Alias /dav "/Library/WebServer/Documents/dav"
  <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents/dav">
      Dav On
      Order Allow,Deny
      Allow from all
      AuthType Digest
      AuthName Private
      # You can use the htdigest program to create the password database:
      #   htdigest -c "/usr/user.passwd" DAV-upload admin
      AuthUserFile "/usr/user.passwd"
      AuthDigestProvider file
      Require valid-user
      # Allow universal read-access, but writes are restricted
      # to the admin user.
      <LimitExcept GET OPTIONS>
          require user seanashton
      </LimitExcept>
  </Directory>
  

• Launch the Terminal application to get to a command prompt
• Execute the following commands:

  sudo mkdir -p /Library/WebServer/davlocks/
  sudo mkdir -p /Library/WebServer/Documents/dav        
  sudo touch /Library/WebServer/davlocks/DAVLockDB
  sudo chown -R www:www /Library/WebServer/davlocks
  sudo chown -R www:www /Library/WebServer/Documents/dav
  

• From the Terminal again you need to then create the user database, replace seanashton with your own username:

  htdigest -c "/usr/user.passwd" Private seanashton    
  

  You will be prompted to enter a password twice to confirm.
• Launch the System Preferences application, click on Sharing
• Locate the Web Sharing option. If it is already "On" then turn it off, before turning it "On" again. If it is already "Off" then turn it "On"
• You should now be able to browse to the share by using your computers ip address at: http://{ip_address}/dav
• You will need to enter the username and password from above into WebDAV Navigator in order to correctly authenticate with the machine

Firewall considerations

OSX has a built-in firewall that may restrict incoming connections to your WebDAV server.

Apple has provided instructions at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1810 which explain how to set access for specific applications and services.

If you have any third party applications that may also restrict incoming/outgoing connections you may need to configure those applications with exceptions as well.

Additional Reference

www.macgeneration.com (french)