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Debian On Ra Q4

The Cobalt RaQ Cobalt_RaQ is a 1U rackmount server product line developed by Cobalt Networks, Inc. which was later purchased by Sun Microsystems featuring a modified Red Hat Linux operating system with a proprietary GUI for server management. Original RaQ systems were equipped with MIPS CPUs but later models used AMD K6-2 chips and then eventually Intel Pentium III CPUs for the final models.

The following guide has only been tested on a Cobalt RaQ4 and may not work on all machines. However it should also work on RaQ 3/XTR/550 and the [continued…]

Setting Up Web DAV

DAV stands for “Distributed Authoring and Versioning”, apparently. Not a particularly descriptive name, but quite a useful technology, and extremely simple to use.

Setting up the Server

DAV is an extension to HTTP, so the first thing you’ll need is a working Apache installation. I won’t cover that here – there are plenty of howtos on getting Apache running. Be sure to have appropriate certificates etc. if you want to use HTTPS.

Apache needs very little configuration to run DAV – in fact, all the major stuff was already configured for my distro (Whitebox Linux). Check [continued…]