4. Additional modules

4.1.1. What is mod_dav

From the authors point of view:

DAV means: ╩Distributed authoring and Versioning╚. It allows you to manage your Website similar to a filesystem. It is meant to replace ftp-uploads to your webserver.

DAV is supported by all major web development tools (newer versions) and is going to be a widely accepted standard for webpublishing.

4.1.2. Download the source

Origin-Site: http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/

4.1.3. Building and installing

cd /usr/local

tar -xvzf mod_dav-1.0.3-1.3.6.tar.gz
cd mod_dav-1.0.3-1.3.6

./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs

make
make install

	Confusing filename
	The filename mod_dav-1.0.3-1.3.6 suggests that it will only run with Apache 1.3.6 but it actually will run with all Apaches >= 1.3.6

4.2.1. What is auth_ldap

From the authors point of view:

If you like to consolidate your login-facilities to a common user/passwd base, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is the right way. LDAP is an open standard and widely supported.

Login-facilities for LDAP:

Unix-Logins for Linux, Solaris (others?) FTP-Logins (some ftp-daemons) http Basic Authentication Tarantella Authentication and Role-Management Samba Authentication (2.2.x should support this) LDAP is role based. That means, i.e. you can define a role ╩manager╚ assign a user as member and that user can login wherever a manager is allowed to login.

4.2.2. Download the source

Origin-Site: http://www.rudedog.org/auth_ldap/

4.2.3. Building and installing

cd /usr/local

tar -xvzf auth_ldap-1.6.0.tar.gz

cd auth_ldap-1.6.0

./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
--with-sdk=openldap

make
make install

4.3.1. What is mod_auth_mysql

It is a http-Basic Authentication Module. It allows to maintain your user comfortable in a MySQL-Database

4.3.2. Download the source

Origin-Site: ftp://ftp.kciLink.com/pub/mod_auth_mysql.c.gz

4.3.3. Building and installing

gunzip mod_auth_mysql.c.gz

/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
-c -I/usr/local/mysql/include \
-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql \
-lmysqlclient -lm mod_auth_mysql.c

cp mod_auth_mysql.so /usr/local/apache/libexec/

Add this line in your httpd.conf:

LoadModule mysql_auth_module libexec/mod_auth_mysql.so

And where the other modules are added:

AddModule mod_auth_mysql.c

Take care that the path of MySQL libraries and includes are correct.

	Library path
	Be sure that /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql is in /etc/ld.so.conf before compiling

4.3.4. Sample configuration

<location /manual/>
  AuthType Basic
  AuthUserfile /dev/null
  AuthName Testing
  AuthGroupFile /dev/null
  AuthMySQLHost localhost
  AuthMySQLCryptedPasswords Off
  AuthMySQLUser root
  AuthMySQLDB users
  AuthMySQLUserTable user_info
  <Limit GET POST>
    require valid-user
  </limit>
</location>

mysql < authmysql.sql

  create database http_users;
  connect http_users;

  CREATE TABLE user_info (
  user_name CHAR(30) NOT NULL,
  user_passwd CHAR(20) NOT NULL,
  user_group CHAR(10),
  PRIMARY KEY (user_name);

4.4.1. What is mod_dynvhost

It is a module that allows to define new Virtual Host "on-the-fly". Just create a new Directory in your vhost-path, thats it. It is not need to restart your Webserver

It is a good solution for Mass-Virtual-hosting for ISP's

4.4.2. Download the source

Origin-Site: http://funkcity.com/0101/projects/dynvhost/mod_dynvhost.tar.gz

4.4.3. Building and installing

cd /usr/local

tar -xvzf mod_dynvhost.tar.gz

cd dynvhost/

/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -i -a -c mod_dynvhost.c

	Check httpd.conf
	Notice: Take a look at httpd.conf if mod_dynvhost.so is loaded at startup: LoadModule dynvhost_module libexec/mod_dynvhost.so

4.4.4. Sample configuration

<DynamicVirtualHost /usr/local/apache/htdocs/vhosts/> 
  HomeDir / 
</DynamicVirtualHost>

Now create a Directory for each virtualhost in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/vhosts/

i.e.

/usr/local/apache/htdocs/vhosts/foo.bar.org

You don't need to restart your Webserver

4.5.1. What is mod_roaming

From the authors point of view:

Mod_roaming is indeed valuable. Unfortunately it does not work over proxy-connection. You can keep your Netscape 4.x bookmarks etc. synchronized on different machines. It is not supported by any other browsers, including Mozilla and Netscape 6.x.

4.5.2. Download the source

Origin-Site: http://www.klomp.org/mod_roaming/

4.5.3. Building and installing

cd /usr/local 

tar -xvzf mod_roaming-1.0.2.tar.gz

cd mod_roaming-1.0.2

/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -i -a -c mod_roaming.c

	Check httpd.conf
	Check httpd.conf if mod_roaming is loaded at startup: LoadModule roaming_module libexec/mod_roaming.so

4.5.4. Sample configuration

RoamingAlias /roaming /usr/local/apache/roaming
<Directory /usr/local/apache/roaming>
  AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/conf/roaming-htpasswd
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Roaming Access"
  <Limit GET PUT MOVE DELETE>
    require valid-user
  </Limit>
</Directory>