module dav with http_auth

[Cédric Jeanneret]

Hello!

I'm wanting to create my own "firefox sync" service. As I could read,
it's only a dav service without any special thing. So I tried to
create it like, enabling the dav module[1] in nginx. I've read the
example, but I think there's something missing. Here's my
configuration:

server {
  listen (ipv4)443;
  listen [(ipv6)]:443;
  server_name weave.domain.tld;
  access_log  /var/log/nginx/weave_access.log main;
  error_log   /var/log/nginx/weave_error.log info;

  ssl on;
  ssl_certificate     /etc/nginx/ssl/all.signed.crt;
  ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/all.key;

  root /var/www/vhosts/weaver.domain/htdocs ;
  client_body_temp_path /var/www/vhosts/weave.domain/tmp ;
  dav_methods  PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE;
  create_full_put_path   on;
  dav_access user:rw ;

  location ~ /user/([a-z]+)/.* {
    auth_basic 'Firefox Sync';
    auth_basic_user_file  /var/www/vhosts/weave.domain/$1.htpasswd;
  }
}

I've created a user 8say, "my_example") and related password, so that
I've a " /var/www/vhosts/weave.domain/my_example.htpasswd" file
I've created the related user/my_example directory.

But nginx tells me:
2011/03/26 20:22:16 [error] 23025#0: *144 no user/password was
provided for basic authentication, client: (ipv4), server:
weave.domain.tld, request: "OPTIONS /user/my_example/ HTTP/1.1", host:
"weave.domain.tld"

Nginx version is
nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/0.8.53

I don't understand this error - I use cadaver for my test, and provide
the username/password... I thikn the "dav_access" should give the
rights to read and write to authenticated users... ?

Thank you in advance!

Cheers,

C.

[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpDavModule