Apache Cookbook, 2nd Edition

2.3. Installing mod_dav on Windows

Problem

You want to enable WebDAV capabilities on your existing Apache 1.3 server with mod_dav.

Solution

Apache 2.0 includes mod_dav as a standard module, so you do not need to download and build it.

Download and unpack the mod_dav Windows package from http://webdav.org/mod_dav/win32. Verify that your Apache installation already has the xmlparse.dll and xmltok.dll files in the ServerRoot directory; if they aren’t there, check through the Apache directories to locate and copy them to the ServerRoot. mod_dav that requires the Expat package, which is included with versions of the Apache Web server after 1.3.9; these files hook into Expat, which mod_dav will use.

Put the mod_dav DLL file into the directory where Apache keeps its modules:

C:\>cd mod_dav-1.0.3-dev
C:\mod_dav-1.0.3-dev>copy mod_dav.dll C:\Apache\modules
C:\mod_dav-1.0.3-dev>cd \Apache

Add the following line to your httpd.conf file:

LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.dll

You may also need to add an AddModule line if your httpd.conf file includes a ClearModuleList directive and re-adds the other modules. Alternatively, you can insert the LoadModule for mod_dav after the ClearModuleList directive.

Discussion

The mod_dav Package is an encapsulated and well-behaved module that is easily built and added to an existing server. To test that it has been properly installed, you need to enable some location on the server for WebDAV management and verify access to that location with some WebDAV-capable tool, ...