How to upload/download or modify .htaccess files using WebDAV

.htaccessapache-2.2webdav

I've set up a Ubuntu server with Apache 2. Instead of FTP, I'm using WebDAV to upload/download files and it works great. However, it's not possible to upload/download or modify .htaccess files, because the Apache server returns an 404 (forbidden) error.

How is it possible to enable working with .htaccess files like with any other file?

By the way: don't worry. The WebDAV access run over a WebDAV-only host to avoid security issues.

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You can't access .htaccess or .htpasswd from a normal apache because it protects them. They have sensitive information inside (usernames, special commands, etc) and it correctly does not allow you to see them.

(s)ftp is the way to do it...

If you still want to edit them...try changing this config part inside your /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

AccessFileName .htaccess

<Files ~ "^\.ht">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
</Files>

Change

Deny from all

Allow from 192.168.1.0/24 
Deny from all

to allow your internal network clients to access these files...

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I recently struggled with the same problem on my Fedora 10 system. In my case the culprit was some odd redirection that I was doing in Apache. Specifically, I use a content management system (Drupal, to be exact) that within it's .htaccess includes the following redirection logic to redirect missing files to a PHP script:

# Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

It makes sense that the above only affects the PUT method since in that case REQUEST_FILENAME does not exist.

Not having the WebDAV area inside of the Drupal area, which seems like a reasonable constraint, fixes the problem.

Also, I think it is likely that SELinux would result in a different error, but it's not mentioned in the discussion above. Did you try disabling SELinux?

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You may need to use the <directory /path/to/files> directive instead of <location>.

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