Firefox: Hosting Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks) on lighttpd
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 1 2 3 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: ...