[nycbug-talk] ipad remote storage question

[Pete Wright]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:40:19PM -0400, Marc Spitzer wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:21:46PM -0400, Marc Spitzer wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have a roll out at work for 200+ ipads in the fall, 400 in 2 years,
> >> and we need to provide remote file storage/access. ?I have spoken to
> >> apple about it and they are recommending webdav. ?I was wondering if
> >> anyone else had any different ideas or product recommendations?
> >> Currently we are testing with apache/webdav and each user gets his own
> >> ?<location></location> stanza in apache config, its fine for 5-10 but
> >> will become a bit unwieldy when it grows.
> >>
> >
> > just thinking off the top of my head, but perhaps you could use
> > webdav+ldap to help scale this out? ?haven't looked at docs too closely,
> > but i'm thinking something along the lines of pulling user auth along
> > with some webdav attributes from ldap...
> >
> >
> 
> Perhaps I just dont know enough about apache presently and need to
> read some but here is a sanitized webdav directory config:
> 
>         <Location "/userid">
>                 #AllowOverride None
>                 Options -Includes  +Indexes
>                 #Order allow,deny
>                 #Allow from all
>                 Order Deny,Allow
>                 Deny from all
>                 AuthBasicProvider ldap
>                 AuthName "pilot project"
>                 AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off
>                 AuthLDAPURL ldap://url_here
>                 AuthType Basic
>                 Require user usrid
>                 satisfy any
> 
>                 Dav on
> 
>         </Location>
> 
> While this does work maintaining 2-400 of these chunks is something I
> would like to dodge if possble.
> 

yea i see what you mean, that would suck :)

how about "Per-User Web directories" and mod_userdir:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/public_html.html

i wonder if that would play with DAV - might require some regex's
somewhere though though...

-p



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Pete Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org