Httpd – What’s the equivalent of in .htaccess

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?

The httpd.conf file provided with OS X has a default deny that locks down every directory from every client. It then allows access to the DocumentRoot directory — that would be the default of /Library/WebServer/Documents. Page down some in that file and you'll see:

<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">
    # [...]
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

    # [...]
    AllowOverride None

    # [...]
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

</Directory>

Change the "/Library/WebServer/Documents" bit to "/webcontent" and you're good.