Firefox: Hosting Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks) on lighttpd

Sun, 03 May 2009 14:30:58 +0000

Well, I am an enthusiastic user of Xmarks (or Foxmarks) and played with this again and again. So this weekend, I finally decided to do it properly. I sat down, recreated the whole WebDAV stuff (even if I cheated of this HowtoForge article).

Always redirect traffic to HTTPS, since transmitting username and passwords via HTTP ain’t that secure (MITM)

Okay, so here are the shortended setup instructions:

Enable mod_access, mod_auth, mod_redirect and mod_webdav in /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Create the necessary directories
Create the htpasswd-file
Configure the redirections

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mkdir -p /var/www/dav/{web,auth,sql}
chown -R lighttpd:lighttpd/var/www/dav/{web,sql}
htpasswd -c /var/www/dav/auth/htpasswd chrischie

Since we just created the necessary directories, as well as a htpasswd-file containing a user we should be able to change the configuration now:

Sqlite on BAFM

Firefox: Hosting Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks) on lighttpd