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List:       dav-dev
Subject:    [dav-dev] Wildcard locations?
From:       Steve Willis <dav () stevewillis ! net>
Date:       2005-07-21 17:43:03
Message-ID: 42DFDEA7.80308 () stevewillis ! net
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Hello,

This is more a general Apache question, but because I need a solution 
for transferring files via WebDAV rather than a solution for redirecting 
Web pages, I thought I might have better luck on this list. Other Apache 
lists and forums seem to lean toward suggesting alternative methods to 
basic authentication for this issue, such as a PHP login page. Of 
course, this doesn't work for DAV!

I have a number of directories, one per user, where users can store 
files. Each directory is named the same as the username that should have 
access to it. In other words, I want to require that each directory can 
only be accessed by an authenticated user with the same name. I don't 
want to have to write a separate <Location> directive for each user I 
add to the system in http.conf (or a new .htaccess file), so I'd like to 
automate this somehow. Below is some pseudocode for how I imagine this 
working. Note that "$USER" is not valid apache syntax, but is just to 
explain what I'm trying to acheive:

<Location /var/files/$USER>
   DAV On

   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "File Area"
   AuthUserFile /www/passwd/users

   Require user $USER
</Location>

Is something like this possible? I'd like to achieve a level of 
automation where creating new user directories under /var/files/ 
"magically" allows only users by the same name to access them with DAV.

Thanks,

Steve

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