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WebDav, Finally

Must be that some things just take time. I cannot explain it, since I was certain I had been through all the premutations previously, but now it just works. I'd scoured and read every piece of junk mail on the internet and all the tutorials, yet not once did WebDav work on here. Then suddenly, I just modified one thing (who knows what really) and it works! I did move the Dav enabled directory out of htdocs. That may have been the final straw or requirement. Working well now. I just would like to have symlinks from my home directory work in it, or anywhere for that matter. Still haven't figured that out, despite, once again, reading everything I can on the subject and apparently following the same directions. I even made it require SSL. Very nice little bit there. I have backed-up my httpd.conf file for when I accidentally erase everything, or have I??

My next goal will be to add a subdirectory that can allow other users more limited access. I think I know how to do that. I think this may be helpful to allow others to visit my time schedule or other bits of information, especially for MVI to see which SAEs have been reviewed.

I also managed to get blosxom to work on this machine. The only problem is that I don't know how to make the page look pretty. I thought I would move away from NB and toward the perl-based blosxom, as it appeared to be more flexible and such with all the extensions. Plus, on my other NB blog anyway, the pictures no longer work and I go double posts after I upgraded to 3.2.3. Not a very happy camper I was. Another issue I am now noting, is that loading pages in a web browser from the home server anywhere outside of the home does not often work. I think it is because our DSL connection with Verizon is so slow that pages timeout. This happened when I put all our most recent pictures for our house sale on our server. I could load them at home, but others in California were not able to do so. I had to put them back up on our .Mac server. To bad, because that uses space we have to pay for and the server is slower to work with than mine here, considering uploading and such, since I have to use webdav to interact with .Mac. I'm hoping that with a faster DSL connection in LA, I can use our webserver to do more than hold files on a webdav server. Ah! the other interesting thing is that I can use cadaver to connect to the webdav server here and successfully download items, but a browser will not download items from our webdav server unless you are in the house. Odd. But I am happy enough with how it is working at the moment. The IMAP server is working wonderfully. I just need to back it up very soon.