Webdav Server

MMVL has a webdav server for exchanging files. The files will be accessible by MMVL and its partners only. Please create directories, if you want to upload a bunch of files.

Webdav Server

If you are a MMVL partner and you don't have access, please create a password file and send it to me. You can create the password file as follows

 htpasswd -bc password.txt myusername mypassword

htpasswd is part of the apache2-utils package. Windows users need to download htpasswd.exe instead and run it from the command line (cmd).

There are different methods to access the webdav-server:

Microsoft Internet Explorer

1) Open web folder.

2) Password dialog for Http authentification.

3) Password dialog for Microsoft Frontpage Server Extension. Cancel this dialog.

4) Password dialog for webdav authentification.

You can use Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher (see here for troubleshooting and different Windows versions). Writing doesn't work with Windows 2000 and some versions of Windows XP however because they refuse to connect to a server which does not implement the Microsoft Frontpage Server extension.

• Open Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE)
• From the MSIE Menu, select File => Open >
• Type in the fully-qualified URL http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/dav/
• Select the Open as Web Folder checkbox
• Click the OK button
• A dialog box for http authentification opens. Enter your user name and password.
• Another dialog box will query your user name and password for Microsoft Frontpage Server Extension (press Escape).
• A third dialog box for webdav authentification opens. Enter your user name and password again.
• Now the file-browser should display the webdav-folder. You can copy files with drag-and-drop.

Note that Internet Explorer cannot rename webdav folders for some reason. You have to create directories locally (f.e. in C:\Temp) and then upload them with drag-and-drop.

Firefox

Firefox currently cannot write to webdav. However you can read from webdav by simply pointing Firefox to the following URL and entering your username and password: http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/dav/

DAVExplorer

DAVExplorer (webdav-client implemented in java).

If you have to use Microsoft Windows and opening web folders doesn't work with Internet Explorer, you can download and run DAVExplorer instead.

Install

• Download and install Java, if you don't have it already.
• Download and unpack the DAV Explorer.

Run

• Double-click the file DAVExplorer.jar (or type java -jar DAVExplorer.jar on the command-line). The program should start now (see screenshot).
• Type vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/dav/ in the URL-line and press the connect logo to the left of the input field.
• A dialog box will query your user name and password.
• Click on http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/dav in the tree view.
• You can upload or download files by selecting File => Write File or File => Get File.

Konqueror

Accessing webdav server with konqueror.

Under Linux you can use konqueror and its webdav-ioslave

• Type in the fully qualified URL webdav://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/dav/ or webdav://myusername@vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/dav/ in the location input field and press return.
• A dialog-box will query your user name and password.
• You can copy files with drag-and-drop.

Davfs2

Using davfs2 it is possible to simply mount the webdav-server as a filesystem under Linux. To be able to mount the davfs2 file system as user, you need to add the following line to '/etc/fstab' (replacing myuser and mygroup with the desired local user and group for the virtual file system)

http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/dav/ /media/dav davfs rw,user,uid=myuser,gid=mygroup,noauto  0 0

See Also

• Exchange

External Links

• List of Webdav clients