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Setting Up Apache WebDAV Storage With LDAP Authentication

Setting Up Apache WebDAV Storage With LDAP Authentication

Hey there! Let’s talk about WebDAV today. If you don’t know what WebDAV is, I recommend you to read this wiki. It stands for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning. It is a set of extensions to HTTP that facilitates collaborative editing and file management. In a nutshell, it enables write permission to the users, who used to have only read access afforded by HTTP. Nowadays, it can also be utilized by collaboration and versioning systems like SVN and GIT. Now, without…

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Backup/Restore Zimbra LDAP for DR

Backup/Restore Zimbra LDAP for DR

Overview In this post, I’m going to cover the topic on how to backup and restore LDAP database and config in case of disaster. If you’re a Zimbra administrator, this is a must have knowledge. This can be useful for anyone with an interest in system administration and mail servers. The reason I’m writing this blog is to help others in quickly recovering from a disaster, based on my personal experiences. I understand how it feels to have your system damaged or…

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How To Restore Zimbra When LDAP DB Is Corrupted

How To Restore Zimbra When LDAP DB Is Corrupted

A week ago, I received a call from one of our clients to whom we provide system and networking support. They had called me to inform that their Zimbra server had stopped working after an unexpected power outage. So, I asked them to provide me a remote access to their server so that I could analyze the cause of the problem. It didn’t strike me as a big deal then because there had been lots of issues with this server previously…

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