Firefox 3 local weave repository

Here's how I setup Weave to use my own server to sync, as registration at mozilla is disabled atm. Weave uses DAV to store the data, so all it takes is to configure apache with DAV support.

Enable DAV on apache:

$ sudo a2enmod dav_fs dav dav_lock

Weave will store the data at http://server/user/sha1hash-of-user

$ sudo mkdir /var/www/user
$ sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/user

Edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and put something like this in it:

<Directory "/var/www/user">
      Dav On
      AuthName "WebDAV Login"
      AuthType Basic
      AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
      require valid-user
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
      Options +Indexes
</Directory>

Create the password file with:

$ sudo htpasswd -m -c /etc/apache2/.htpasswd emailaddress

Where the email address is the one you use in the Weave preferences.

Restart apache and then configure Weave. Make sure you change the server location in the Advanced tab to point to the root of your server (http://server/)

NOTE: don't enable forms/password sync, it appears to be broken.. weave will get stuck in a busy loop when it tries to sync with those enabled.