Webdav access to /var/www

Question

I am trying to set up webdav to the /var/www directory on debian 8.4

I can setup webdav to access a subdirectory of /var/www such as /var/www/webdav but when I remove the directive from the apache conf file it doesn't seem to work. for example:

    Alias /webdav /var/www/webdav

    <Directory /var/www/webdav>
        DAV On
    </Directory>

if this is

    Alias /webdav /var/www

    <Directory /var/www>
        DAV On
    </Directory>

I get an error:

cadaver http://192.168.200.85/webdav
Could not access /webdav/ (not WebDAV-enabled?):
Did not find a collection resource.
Connection to `192.168.200.85' closed.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

Answer 1

To solve this issue, I setup a symlink for the folder that is accessed via webdav.