Hi All,

First of all, sorry for the long mail.  To give a gist of the mail, I want to 
know how to use the POST method for Apache server without installing Tomcat or 
anything.

I have a "Server version: Apache/2.0.54" installed in my system.  I have 
configured it to act as a server as well as a proxy server; which means the 
Apache is working fine.

Now I try to do some configuration so that the Apache server will support 
uploading of files (i.e. POST method).

For that I created a folder “public” and the configuration in httpd.conf for 
the same is as follows:

<Directory "/var/www/html/public">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    <Limit POST GET HEAD DELETE>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
</Directory>

Then “/etc/init.d/httpd restart”.

Then POST command is executed to create a new file “NotExists.txt” in 
"/var/www/html/public":

User  :$> POST "http://127.0.0.1/public/NotExists.txt";
Reply :$> Please enter content (application/x-www-form-urlencoded) to be POSTed:
User  :$> helloooooooooooooooo
User  :$> Ctrl D
Reply :$> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
          <html><head>
          <title>404 Not Found</title>
          </head><body>
          <h1>Not Found</h1>
          <p>The requested URL /public/hello.txt was not found on this 
server.</p>
          <hr>
          <address>Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80</address>
          </body></html>

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And in case, the POST is done for a file which already exists in the server, 
the content of the file is given back (i.e., it behaves as if a GET request is 
sent!).

Also, would like to know whether the DELETE method is supported by Apache.  If 
so, what should be the configuration.

Regards,
prasanth


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