[Building Sakai] WebDAV and securing all Tomcat contexts (was secure LDAP problems)

[Colin Tatham]

Hi

Just to follow up on this, I discovered that our problems with WebDAV 
were caused by putting a security constraint in web.xml, as described in 
the "Securing All Tomcat Contexts" section here:

<https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+Admin+Guide+-+Advanced+Tomcat++%28and+Apache%29+Configuration>


I made sure to follow the warning mentioned on that page to specify my 
serverUrl with https:// in sakai.properties, but that didn't solve the 
problem.

Any thoughts? I'm planning to use an Apache rewrite to force SSL instead.

Thanks

Colin



24/11/11 12:50 AM, Colin Tatham:
> Hi
>
> We're using LDAP for user authentication, and it seems to be affecting WebDAV.
>
> Our LDAP directory has to be accessed over a secure connection (but it can be an anonymous bind).
>
> I've discovered that WebDAV doesn't work for users in the LDAP (gives a pretty immediate access denied message) but it's fine for users with accounts in Sakai. Has anyone encountered this before, or have any suggestions?
>
> We're running Sakai 2.8.x, usually force all requests to be secure (although I've also done some tests via port 8080) and I'm testing using CyberDuck.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Colin
>
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Colin Tatham
Educational Technologist | Learning Environments
University Library | The University of Melbourne
http://www.trs.unimelb.edu.au