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layout: post
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title: "Zotero"
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date: 2014-12-09 12:12:12
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tags: zotero webdav nginx apache
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---
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[Zotero](https://www.zotero.org/) is an Open Source tool that lets you organise your bibliography, syncing it with the cloud.
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Unlike other alternatives such as [Mendeley](http://www.mendeley.com), Zotero can upload the attachments and data to a private cloud via WebDav.
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If you use nginx as your web server, know that even though it provides partial support for webdav, Zotero needs more than that.
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Hence, you will need another webdav server, and optionally let nginx proxy to it.
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This short post provides the basics to get that set-up working under Debian/Ubuntu.
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## Setting up Apache
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First we need to install Apache:
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sudo apt-get install apache2
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Change the head of "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default" to:
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<VirtualHost *:880>
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Then, create a file /etc/apache2/sites-available/webdav:
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Alias /dav /home/webdav/dav
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<Location /dav>
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Dav on
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Order Allow,Deny
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Allow from all
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Dav On
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Options +Indexes
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AuthType Basic
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AuthName DAV
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AuthBasicProvider file
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AuthUserFile /home/webdav/.htpasswd
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Require valid-user
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</Location>
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Ideally, you want your webdav folders to be private, adding authentication to them.
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So you need to create the webdav and zotero users and add the passwords to an htpasswd file.
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Even though you could use a single user, since you will be configuring several clients with your credentials I encourage you to create the zotero user as well.
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This way you can always change the password for zotero without affecting any other application using webdav.
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sudo adduser webdav
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sudo htpasswd -c /home/webdav/.htpasswd webdav
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sudo htpasswd /home/webdav/.htpasswd zotero
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sudo mkdir -p /home/webdav/dav/zotero
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Enable the site and restart apache:
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sudo a2enmod webdav
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sudo a2enmod dav_fs
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sudo a2ensite webdav
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sudo service apache2 restart
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At this point everything should be working at http://\<your_host\>:880/dav/zotero
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## Setting up NGINX
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After the Apache side is working, we can use nginx as a proxy to get cleaner URIs.
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In your desired site/location, add this:
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location /dav {
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client_max_body_size 20M;
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proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
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proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
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proxy_set_header Host $host;
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proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:880;
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}
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Now just reload nginx:
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sudo service nginx force-reload
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## Extras
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* [Zotero Reader](http://zoteroreader.com/) - HTML5 client
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* [Zandy](https://github.com/ajlyon/zandy) - Android Open Source client
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