module dav with http_auth

[Cédric Jeanneret]

Hello Francis!

Yes, I fumbled on this weave_minimal - I'm currently trying to get the
python version running - not so easy ;).

For the dav part, I saw that there was an error in directory path... a
"weaver" instead of "weave". So yeah, it's working fine - even if I
don't need it anymore.

Thank you for your answer.

Cheers,

C.

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 08:24:56PM +0100, Cédric Jeanneret wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
>> I'm wanting to create my own "firefox sync" service. As I could read,
>> it's only a dav service without any special thing.
>
> As I understand it, it's not quite that simple. Search for "weave_minimal"
> for one implementation of the server side of that service that is reported
> to work with nginx.
>
> But separate from that, your question is about dav and auth...
>
>>   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.
>
> (Note that "my_example" doesn't match this location. But I guess your
> real test user does.)
>
>> 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"
>
> That's error_log. Also look in access_log, and you should see two
> requests. (At least, I do when I try a similar test.)
>
>> I don't understand this error - I use cadaver for my test, and provide
>> the username/password...
>
> My cadaver issues one "OPTIONS /" request without user/pass; nginx replies
> 401, then cadaver reissues the request with user/pass which nginx accepts
> (and then replies 405, but that's a slightly-side issue).
>
> So the http_auth-with-dav part looks fine to me. Unless you have some
> other combination of what you did / what you saw / what you expected to
> see to report.
>
> One issue you will likely come across is that nginx dav doesn't seem
> to natively handle OPTIONS. Another is that Firefox Sync doesn't seem
> to just be a dav filespace. But they can be addressed separately --
> the http_auth part should be working!
>
> All the best,
>
>        f
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> Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org
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