***SOLVED***
The fact is that mod_dav fails if the directory that you ask it to serve
contains the file that is identified as DirectoryIndex.
So in my original posting, DAV fails to serve the DocumentRoot (however
I try to get at it) BECAUSE it contains the file 'index.html'.
I got here because
Srinivasa,
I have tried what I think you are suggesting:
...
DirectoryIndex index.html
Alias /update /www/www.my-example.co.uk/site/dav
Alias /update /www/www.my-example.co.uk/site
...
Then I get the 405 error.
There is a subdirectory of my 'site' DocumentRoot called 'dave'.
If I have:
Srinivas,
Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure what you are suggesting.
I can try this, but are you suggesting that I put two Alias lines in?
Each one aliasing '/update' to a different target?
Is this on the basis that the first one has been proved to make the DAV
work, and the second one is what
I used to use WebDAV for managing web site content with Apache httpd
2.2.x, however I have so far been unable to move the old configurations
to 2.4.x and maintain this facility.
Most of the on-line 'howtos' seem to be based on the assumption that the
web server is being used as a kind of remote fi
