Hi all,
I am having super fun time trying to turn on mod_dav on an httpd v2.4.53-11.el9
(as shipped by RHEL9).
The request “MKCOL /storage/foo” returns a 201, but doesn't actually do
anything. The “foo” directory is silently not created.
Stepping through the code, the code that creates the directory is creating the
parent directory “/storage”, and not the actual directory in the request
"/storage/foo”:
1137 status = apr_dir_make(ctx->pathname, APR_OS_DEFAULT, ctx->pool);
(gdb) print ctx->pathname
$6 = 0x7fffbc013450 "/var/www/dav/storage"
This explains the “it’s doing nothing” - it created the parent directory, which
already exists.
Looking at the whole request, it looks like the PATH_INFO mechanism hasn't done
anything:
(gdb) print *r
$8 = {pool = 0x7fffb801a898, connection = 0x7fffe4033630, server =
0x555555689e28, next = 0x0, prev = 0x0, main = 0x0,
the_request = 0x7fffb801be48 "MKCOL /storage/foo/ HTTP/1.1", assbackwards =
0, proxyreq = 0, header_only = 0,
proto_num = 1001, protocol = 0x7fffb801be3c "HTTP/1.1", hostname =
0x7fffb801c028 “seawitch.xxx.xxx",
request_time = 1681392063530545, status_line = 0x0, status = 200,
method_number = 10, method = 0x7fffb801be28 "MKCOL",
allowed = 67141423, allowed_xmethods = 0x0, allowed_methods = 0x7fffb801abf0,
sent_bodyct = 0, bytes_sent = 0, mtime = 0,
range = 0x0, clength = 0, chunked = 0, read_body = 0, read_chunked = 0,
expecting_100 = 0, kept_body = 0x0, body_table = 0x0,
remaining = 0, read_length = 0, headers_in = 0x7fffb801ac30, headers_out =
0x7fffb801b4d0, err_headers_out = 0x7fffb801b718,
subprocess_env = 0x7fffb801b150, notes = 0x7fffb801ba58, content_type = 0x0,
handler = 0x7ffff7701b49 "dav-handler",
content_encoding = 0x0, content_languages = 0x0, vlist_validator = 0x0, user
= 0x0, ap_auth_type = 0x0,
unparsed_uri = 0x7fffb801be68 "/storage/foo/", uri = 0x7fffb801be78
"/storage/foo/",
filename = 0x7fffb801c540 "/var/www/dav/storage", canonical_filename =
0x7fffb801c540 "/var/www/dav/storage",
path_info = 0x7fffb801c484 "", args = 0x0, used_path_info = 0, eos_sent = 0,
per_dir_config = 0x7fffbc013090,
request_config = 0x7fffb801bbf8, log = 0x555555689e48, log_id =
0x7fffb801c070 "McasmB+dDPA", htaccess = 0x0,
output_filters = 0x7fffb801bd28, input_filters = 0x7fffb801c000,
proto_output_filters = 0x7fffb801bd28,
proto_input_filters = 0x7fffb801c000, no_cache = 0, no_local_copy = 0,
invoke_mtx = 0x7fffb801c080, parsed_uri = {
scheme = 0x0, hostinfo = 0x0, user = 0x0, password = 0x0, hostname = 0x0,
port_str = 0x0,
path = 0x7fffb801be78 "/storage/foo/", query = 0x0, fragment = 0x0, hostent
= 0x0, port = 0, is_initialized = 1,
dns_looked_up = 0, dns_resolved = 0}, finfo = {pool = 0x7fffb801a898, valid
= 7598960, protection = 18288,
filetype = APR_NOFILE, user = 0, group = 48, inode = 17736438, device =
64768, nlink = 2, size = 6, csize = 0,
atime = 1681391795173106, mtime = 1681391869558474, ctime =
1681391869558474,
fname = 0x7fffb801c540 "/var/www/dav/storage",
name = 0x7ffff7e517b1 <apr_array_append+33>
"H\203\304\bL\211\340]A\\\303\017\037@", filehand = 0x7fffb801c1e0},
useragent_addr = 0x7fffe4033490, useragent_ip = 0x7fffe4033968
“xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx",
trailers_in = 0x7fffb801afb0, trailers_out = 0x7fffb801b8b8, useragent_host =
0x0, double_reverse = 0, bnotes = 0}
Most specifically r->path_info is “", and r->used_path_info is 0.
Does this look familiar to anyone?
Config looks like this:
<Location /storage>
Alias /var/www/dav/storage
Dav on
AcceptPathInfo On
</Location>
<Directory /var/www/dav/storage>
Options +Indexes
IndexOptions FancyIndexing HTMLTable VersionSort XHTML
AuthzSendForbiddenOnFailure on
SSLUserName SSL_CLIENT_CERT_RFC4523_CEA
<Limit GET POST PUT DELETE PROPFIND PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY DUPLICATE MOVE
LOCK UNLOCK OPTIONS HEAD>
require valid-user
</Limit>
</Directory>
Regards,
Graham
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