Deploying Web Services for GIR

GIR needs web servics for blah blah blah

The following steps describe how to deploy the Web Services component.

1. Install th

1. Install WebDAV, run the following command:

   yum install httpd

2. Edit the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file, and append the following to the end of the file:

   Alias /recordings /mnt/recordings
   <Directory /mnt/recordings>
      Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
      EnableSendfile off
      AllowOverride None
      Order allow,deny
      allow from all
   </Directory>
   <Location "/recordings">
      DAV On
      AuthType Basic
      AuthName "user"
      AuthUserFile /var/www/htpasswd
      Require valid-user
   </Location>

3. Open the firewall. Because WebDAV is an HTTP server, the incoming default HTTP and/or HTTPS ports (80 and/or 443) must be open to the server.
   Important

   It is possible to use custom ports by changing the permitted incoming ports in the firewall, the virtual host configuration file, and the URL used to reach the WebDAV server.
4. Create the directory to keep the recording files, and set the permission to apache, using the following command:

   mkdir /mnt/recordings
   chown apache:apache /mnt/recordings

5. Create a WebDAV user for httpd, and configure the password. The following example creates a user called "user":
   htpasswd -c /var/www/htpasswd user
6. Configure the httpd to start on boot up (and start it now) using the following command:

   chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on
   service httpd start

7. Test the WebDAV installation"
   1. Upload a hello.world file to the WebDAV server using the following command:

      curl -T hello.world -u user:password http://myserver/recordings/hello.world

   2. Using a browser, open the the http://myserver/recordings/hello.world URL. The browser will request for user credentials.
8. The WebDAV server is installed.