How to install SabreDAV on NetBSD

SabreDAV is a WebDAV framework for PHP that allows you to easily add WebDAV functionality to your website or applications. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install SabreDAV on NetBSD.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding, make sure you have the following:

A NetBSD server
PHP installed on the server
Apache or Nginx web server installed and configured

Step 1: Download SabreDAV

The first step is to download SabreDAV by running the following command on your server.

wget https://github.com/sabre-io/dav/releases/download/4.2.5/sabre-dav-4.2.5.zip

Alternatively, you can download the latest release from the SabreDAV downloads page.

Step 2: Install Dependencies

Next, we need to install the dependencies required by SabreDAV. Run the following command to install PHP's XML extension and SQLite database driver.

pkgin install php-xml php-sqlite3

Step 3: Configure Apache or Nginx

We will assume that you have Apache or Nginx already installed and configured. However, if you don't, you will need to configure it to serve PHP files.

For Apache, you can use the following virtual host configuration as a starting point.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName webdav.example.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/SabreDAV

    <Directory /var/www/html/SabreDAV>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted

        <FilesMatch \.php$>
            SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
        </FilesMatch>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

If you are using Nginx, you can use the following server block as an example.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name webdav.example.com;

    root /var/www/html/SabreDAV;
    index index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm.sock;
    }
}

Make sure to replace webdav.example.com with your own domain name, and /var/www/html/SabreDAV with the path to your SabreDAV installation.

Step 4: Extract SabreDAV

Extract the SabreDAV archive that you downloaded earlier into the appropriate directory in your web server's document root. You can use the following command to extract the SabreDAV archive.

unzip sabre-dav-4.2.5.zip -d /var/www/html/SabreDAV

Step 5: Configure SabreDAV

Now that SabreDAV is installed on your server, it's time to configure it. Copy the config.php.dist file to config.php in the SabreDAV installation directory, and edit it as needed.

cd /var/www/html/SabreDAV
cp config.php.dist config.php

Open config.php in a text editor, and configure the following settings.

Set the baseUri option to the base URL of your WebDAV server.
Set the enableAutocomplete option to true or false depending on whether you want SabreDAV to provide a list of available propstat names to clients.

Save the file when you're done.

Step 6: Test Your Installation

That's it! You can now test your SabreDAV installation by accessing it using a WebDAV client like Windows Explorer, Cyberduck or DAVdroid (for mobile clients).

To verify that your installation was successful, visit the URL for your WebDAV server in a web browser, and you should see the SabreDAV welcome page.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed SabreDAV on NetBSD!