OpenSUSE Leap 42: Install WebDAV

• This article uses default SSL/TLS certicication file for https. Please change your SSL/TLS certification file.
• Use https or davs for SSL.
• WEBDAV_USERNAME is username and WEBDAV_PASSWORD is password for digest authentication.

#!/bin/sh

set -e

[ -z "${WEBDAV_USERNAME}" ] && \
  WEBDAV_USERNAME=webdav
[ -z "${WEBDAV_PASSWORD}" ] && \
  WEBDAV_PASSWORD=webdav

sudo zypper -n in apache2
sudo gensslcert

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apache2/conf.d/webdav.conf
Alias /webdav /srv/www/webdav
DAVLockDB /var/lib/webdav/DAVLock

<VirtualHost _default_:443>
  SSLEngine on
  SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/server.crt
  SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl.key/server.key
</VirtualHost>

<Location /webdav>
  DAV On
  SSLRequireSSL
  AuthType Digest
  AuthName webdav
  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.webdav
  Require valid-user
</Location>
EOF

sudo mkdir /srv/www/webdav
sudo chown wwwrun:www /srv/www/webdav

sudo mkdir /var/lib/webdav
sudo chown wwwrun:www /var/lib/webdav

for t in FW_CONFIGURATIONS_EXT FW_CONFIGURATIONS_DMZ FW_CONFIGURATIONS_INT; do
  sudo sed -e "s/^${t}=\"\(.*\)\"/${t}=\"\1 apache2-ssl\"/g" \
       -i /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2
done
sudo systemctl restart SuSEfirewall2

sudo a2enflag SSL
for mod in ssl dav dav_fs auth_digest; do
  sudo a2enmod ${mod}
done
sudo systemctl enable apache2
sudo systemctl restart apache2

# Create digest password file with expect command.
sudo zypper -n in expect
expect -c "
set timeout -1
spawn sudo htdigest -c /etc/apache2/.webdav webdav ${WEBDAV_USERNAME}
expect \"New password: \"
send \"${WEBDAV_PASSWORD}\n\"
expect \"Re-type new password: \"
send \"${WEBDAV_PASSWORD}\n\"
expect eof
"

Install davfs2 package for mounting davfs.

> O=http://download.opensuse.org
> A=${O}/repositories/filesystems/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/
> sudo zypper ar -f -n filesystems ${A} filesystems
> sudo zypper -n --gpg-auto-import-keys ref
> sudo zypper -n in davfs2

Run "mount -t davfs".

> sudo mount -t davfs https://localhost/webdav /mnt
Please enter the username to authenticate with server
https://localhost/webdav or hit enter for none.
  Username: webdav
Please enter the password to authenticate user webdav with server
https://localhost/webdav or hit enter for none.
  Password:
/sbin/mount.davfs: the server certificate does not match the server name
/sbin/mount.davfs: the server certificate is not trusted
  issuer:      CA, SUSE Linux Web Server, unknown, unknown, XY
  subject:     web server, SUSE Linux Web Server, unknown, unknown, XY
  identity:    opensuse-14.hiroom2.com
  fingerprint: cc:46:1a:43:3b:b2:ec:55:37:81:83:b6:61:54:91:46:23:67:e8:2f
You only should accept this certificate, if you can
verify the fingerprint! The server might be faked
or there might be a man-in-the-middle-attack.
Accept certificate for this session? [y,N] y

Write file via WebDAV.

> echo hello | sudo tee /mnt/hello.txt

For updating written file immediately, unmount /mnt.

> sudo umount /mnt

Written file can be read in /var/www/webdav.

> sudo cat /var/www/webdav/hello.txt
hello