Anyone had any experience of setting up WebDAV?

I'm sure this could be used instead of FTP for remote workers to upload files via http for colleagues, or am I barking up the wrong tree?

I'd appreciate any input/gotchas from previous WebDAv users.

thanks
jfp

This is one that I've NOT tried .... can anyone else help??

Graham

P.S.  Have you thought of uploading a file via HTTP?  Works a treat for us on our courses  

Hi,  (nice to meet you again)

I think you are 'barking up the right tree'.

It's supposed to be for web authoring, where you edit your web site in something like Dreamweaver and upload it via WebDAV.
There's also supposed to be version control support. Bit hazy about that. Perhaps that's what the locking is for..
You should be able to upload/download and lock and delete files from a client.

Here's some links I found to what looks like useful info.

A Perl client:
http://www.webdav.org/perldav/

The module for Apache:
http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/

Must give this a go sometime, but I have umpteen other projects on the go too..

HTH
B

>>Must give this a go sometime, but I have umpteen other projects on the go too..

Thats exactly what this is Custard, I tend to hear about technologies, store them away in my head....then I find a problem later that it solves.

thanks for the links, I'll have a read.
Also found some stuff in the Apache Cookbook that was on my bookshelf  

If I have any success I'll post details here, I'm sure theres a florist in Melksham that would fine this useful.

jfp

edit: quick note on what its for.
I have a friend who's a designer, she lays out pages in Quark Xpress, the editor of the magazine also does work in Quark. She's finding that the editor uses out of date versions of the Doc that she then has to re-edit/update.

I'm thinking of storing the Quark doc in a webDAV dir that locks the file when its checked out by either the designer or the editor.

Quote:

P.S.  Have you thought of uploading a file via HTTP?

Just a quickie, thats exactly what webDAV is Graham, using HTTP for file transfer using web facing folders, and as Custard said, there is file locking too.
Looks very interesting to me

Got to go, out for Chinese tonight.
jfp

Not the Chinese in Melksham, surely (the one next to the florists)

Also, I believe the SubVersion project has a webDAV interface which may be a more featured versioning system than straight webDAV.

http://subversion.tigris.org/webdav-usage.html

B



During the nightmare process that is PHP installation, I was looking at installing webDAV, and discovered that it comes with Apache2.

What you do is... (For Solaris, at least...)

unpack the source distro..
cd httpd-whatever the distro version is
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --with-dav --enable-dav --enable-so
make
make install

Then add to httpd.conf ...

(Next line not required if dav is a builtin.. even though I compiled with --enable-so.. odd?)
LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so


DAVLockDB /usr/local/apache/dav/dav.lockDB
DAVMinTimeout 600

or

<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/dav">
Dav On
</Directory>

mkdir /usr/local/apache/htdocs/dav

Whatever floats your boat, apache-wise.

And add a password file...

mkdir /usr/local/apache/dav
chgrp www /usr/local/apache/dav
chmod 775 /usr/local/apache/dav
htpasswd -c /usr/local/apache/dav/htpasswd.dav webdav

And.. if you're a Mac OSX user...

Use Finder->Go->Connect to server

http://yourserver/dav

put in your username/password

And you get a filer window with the DAV directory contents..

Cool!

HTH

(Still fighting PHP into the machine though... )

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