Comments on: Run a WebDAV server on your Mac to sync VoodooPad (for Free)

By: Turn your Mac into a WebDAV server

Turn your Mac into a WebDAV server — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:04:26 +0000

[...] I found this tutorial that have easy to follow steps to turn your Mac into a WebDAV server. Of course if you do not have [...]

By: Nik Markevicius

Nik Markevicius — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:08:49 +0000

Hey, I followed the steps, and when I get to Step 7, I get this:
line 82: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument

Also, when I do sudo apachectl -t, I get the following:
/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 82: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument
Syntax error on line 99 of /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-ssl.conf:
SSLCertificateFile: file ‘/private/etc/apache2/server.crt’ does not exist or is empty

What have I done wrong?

Thanks,
Nik

By: rob

rob — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:46:19 +0000

Thanks for a very useful guide.

Would it be any more of a problem to run such a webdav on a machine that is not my own laptop (which I shut down when I leave the office)?

Rob

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 21:13:04 +0000

I also had a can’t connect error. Used “sudo apachectl -t” which pointed to an error on line 18 of httpd-dav.conf. That turned out to be Dav On in the wrong place; I had it twice, once before and once after the line. I removed the before one, and now it connects.

Thanks!

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:09:27 +0000

Thanks for this very useful guide!

By: Patrick Walker

Patrick Walker — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:51:48 +0000

Haven’t been able to get Finder to connect with the Connection failed dialog.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:21:05 +0000

That didn’t work either. Email me if you want the modified code.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:19:28 +0000

It looks like some of the code disappeared. I'll try this:



  Order Allow,Deny
  Allow from all



  
     Dav On
     AuthType Digest
     AuthName WebDAV-Realm
     AuthUserFile "/usr/webdav.passwd"
     require user laptoppc

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:17:41 +0000

Hi,

I tried your configuration, and was able to connect, but I was also still able to connect without a password in Basic mode.

Here is the configuration I used to only allow Digest mode and block Basic auth mode.

Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all

Dav On
AuthType Digest
AuthName WebDAV-Realm
AuthUserFile “/usr/webdav.passwd”
require user laptoppc

By: sam

sam — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:41:58 +0000

Thanks. Not sure how that bug survived for so long. I’ve updated the article.