Apache2 and PUT???

[Bluey_the_dog]

Hi all,
At work we're mucking around with a Gentoo box to host some development work. We are running apache2 on it and want to be able to PUT data from apps, via curl/libcurl, onto the machine. The server appears to be up and running OK. I can, say, copy a kernel, via the shell, into our target dir and then using curl/libcurl, download it onto a client machine, but for the life of me, putting all of my vast knowledge of apache, all 4 hours, into play, I can't seem to push a file from the client onto the server.

My investigations seem to indicate that PUT is a part of Apache2, no need for mod_put, and that it is "turned off" - I would assume for security reasons. Would someone be so kind as to point me in the right direction so that I can configure this setup so that I can push data onto the server. I've had a look through the Apache doco and httpd.conf and found:

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

Should I add an:

Allow from all

into <Directory />? I've done this and it appears not to work - I've probaby stuffed something else up which has caused this not to work. Any thoughts, or direction, anyone can give me, it would be greatly appreciated. As I previously said, this is Apache2 and all of this is going on on an isolated network so security is NOT a problem. We would just like to be able to push, PUT, the data around.


Thanks in advance for any advice anyone can provide,

Regards,
Andrew

[thunderlove]

http://www.apacheweek.com/features/put

Never heard of using PUT with apache before -- according to the above article, PUT requires a cgi script, much like POST (personally, i've always used suexec and POST -- sounds just as easy to me)

EDIT: poking around apache.org, it does look like, under apache2, you want mod_dav instead of mod_put
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