Can't say what you've done wrong, but this setup works for me:
Alias /dav/ "/home/httpd/dav/files/"
# time out user locks if not resolved within 0.5 hours
DAVMinTimeout 1800
DAV on
AllowOverride AuthConfig
AuthType Basic
AuthName "blah blah blah"
AuthUserFil
Thanks for all the ideas everyone! I don't think any of them will
quite work for me (I need to have apache on port 443 as well to handle
some https stuff; the DAV is a good idea though I want to be able to
do more than just change files; and the people who run the firewall
are not my clients, but
Hi all --
I have a linux box running several websites using apache. Elsewhere,
I have a client on a military base. When I am at the client's site
using their network, their paranoid firewall drops just about
everything in the world except port 80. This means I can show them
their website when I