Apache HTTP Server Setup

Testing the PUT and DELETE Methods

To test PUT and DELETE, install an Apache HTTP server on a (virtual) machine. Install and enable the WebDAV module (mod_dav).

Note: The following configuration enables uploading of files to the server, so it is not secure.

Configure Apache version 2.4.7-1ubuntu4 on the machine as follows:

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf:
<Directory /var/www/html>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
    Dav On
    <Limit GET POST PUT DELETE HEAD OPTIONS>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
    <LimitExcept GET POST PUT DELETE HEAD OPTIONS>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>
</Directory>

Testing the POST and GET Methods

To test POST and GET, install a CGI script named cgi_test.py in the Apache server's html directory. The content of the file cgi_test.py is as follows:

#!/usr/bin/python
import cgi, cgitb
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
first_name = form.getvalue('first_name')
last_name  = form.getvalue('last_name')
print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
print "<html><head><title>CGI Program</title></head>"
print "<body><h2>Hello %s %s</h2></body></html>" % (first_name, last_name)