Using Apache as a File Server with DAV and LDAP

If your organization hosts websites, chances are you’re using Apache, the world’s most popular web server. Apache has many advanced capabilities that administrators can implement. This article discusses how to integrate Apache with DAV (Distrubuted Authoring and Versioning) to create a file server, along with LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) to check your users’ profiles for permission to read or write files.