Here you have an example for a WebDAV configuration in Apache.
Make sure that the modules dav_module, dav_fs_module and dav_lock_module are loaded.
See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dav.html, http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dav_fs.html and http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dav_lock.html for more information.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@sos-berlin.com
ServerName homer.sos
ServerAlias homer.sos
# don't loose time with IP address lookups
HostnameLookups Off
# needed for named virtual hosts
UseCanonicalName Off
# configures the footer on server-generated documents
ServerSignature On
Alias /jade /tmp/test/jade
<Directory /tmp/test/jade/ >
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
<Location /jade >
DAV On
AuthType Basic
AuthName "webdav"
AuthUserFile /srv/www/passwd.dav
Require valid-user
ErrorDocument 400 default
ErrorDocument 401 default
ErrorDocument 403 default
ErrorDocument 404 default
ErrorDocument 405 default
ErrorDocument 408 default
ErrorDocument 410 default
ErrorDocument 411 default
ErrorDocument 412 default
ErrorDocument 413 default
ErrorDocument 414 default
ErrorDocument 415 default
ErrorDocument 500 default
ErrorDocument 501 default
ErrorDocument 502 default
ErrorDocument 503 default
ErrorDocument 506 default
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb
Make sure that the Apache user (e.g. wwwrun) has sufficient permissions on above WebDAV directory /tmp/test/jade.
It is strongly recommended that you configure all Apache ErrorDocument to default in the WebDAV location or you comment all ErrorDocument in the httpd.conf.
If you send a file with JADE to an Apache WebDAV server then JADE checks wether the target file already exists.
If the target file doesn't exist then the Apache WebDAV server response the ErrorDocument 404 in addition to the HTTP Status 404.
If the ErrorDocument 404 points e.g. to /error/HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var then the answer of the Apache takes much longer (~1 minute).