Hello Jakarta Horde,
A little HOWTO for Apache webDAV users with Tomcat. I found that I was
unable to edit JSP files over webdav until I factored the DAV
functionailty into a <VirtualHost> directive.
The problem lies in the fact that in your Apache config has a mapping of
".jsp" to go to Tomcat, like so:
AddType text/jsp .jsp
AddHandler jserv-servlet .jsp
Put this mapping into a virtual host directive instead of in your main
server.
Then, create a another <VirtualHost> with a special name. So for
znutar.cortexity.com, I have a WebDAV host called dav.cortexity.com. My
two virtual hosts are laid out like this:
<VirtualHost znutar.cortexity.com>
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DocumentRoot /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-3.2/webapps/ROOT
ServerName znutar.cortexity.com
ApJServDefaultPort 8007
AddType text/jsp .jsp
AddHandler jserv-servlet .jsp
<LocationMatch "/BugRat*">
SetHandler jserv-servlet
</LocationMatch>
ApJServMount /servlet /ROOT
ErrorLog logs/znutar-error_log
CustomLog logs/znutar-access_log combined
</VirtualHost>
This then is complemented by a special virtual host which has a different
mapping for .jsp, like so:
<VirtualHost dav.cortexity.com>
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DocumentRoot /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-3.2/webapps/ROOT
ServerName edit.cortexity.com
ErrorLog logs/edit-error_log
CustomLog logs/edit-access_log combined
DAVLockDB /usr/local/apache/.dav/DAVLock
DAVMinTimeout 600
AddType text/plain .jsp
Alias /mdav /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-3.2/webapps/ROOT
<Location /dav>
AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/.auth/.bugrat_dav
AuthName DAV
AuthType Basic
DAV On
<Limit GET PUT POST DELETE PROPFIND PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK
UNLOCK>
Require valid-user
</Limit>
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
Works great. Note, don't try these hostnames yourself as you can only see
them from behind my firewall. And this is in place of any
tomcat-apache.conf.
--
Nicolaus Bauman
