I've switched my home server from a Linux box running httpd 1.3 to my
Mac running httpd 2.0. For my each site I host, I've got two virtual
hosts, one which is the public server and another which is DAV-enabled
for editing. I usually just mount the DAV server using the DAV
filesystem in OS X and edit that way.
I ran into a problem after the switch, though, and the clients can't
mount the server any more. I poked around a bit using tcpflow and
bugged the owner of webdavfs at Apple, and the problem seems to be that
httpd is telling the client that the URI / is not a collection, so the
mount fails. I'm seeing behavior using Goliath which show it's getting
confused as well; it will show me index.html but no subdirectories.
My guess is that mod_dir is poking in here and returning index.html
for /. I do have DirectoryIndex set in the main server config, but I
didn't have this problem in 1.3. Is this new behavior? There's no
comment in the docs about how to turn off DirectoryIndex for a location
(eg. for a virtual host).
Commenting out the DirectoryIndex altogether didn't fix the problem,
but disabling the loading of mod_dir does. Unfortunate, since I do
want mod_dir sometimes.
Any ideas?
-wsv
