Storage/WebDav

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that facilitates collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers.
- The WebDAV protocol makes the Web a readable and writable medium. It provides a framework for users to create, change and move documents on a server; typically a web server or web share.

HOWTO use WebDav

WebDav can be used under windows, linux or MAC. We always can access in read mode to our file repository using a web browser, and seting in the address: https://pool01.ifca.es, (remember tha IFCA only supports https).

Windows

To enable the read/write mode, we need to mount the network device under Windows.
1. Select Computer
2. Map Network Drive
3. Within the Map Network Drive dialog, enter your WebDAV address: http://your_site_url/resources (where your_site_url is pool01.ifca.es).
4. Click the two check boxes at the bottom.
5. Click Finish
6. Enter yourA Ldap user name and password.

Linux

Under linux we can access in read/write mode using to different access

The Cadaver client
- Cadaver is a command-line WebDAV client for Unix. It supports file upload, download, on-screen display, namespace operations (move/copy), collection creation and deletion, and locking operations.
```
       cadaver https://pool01.ifca.es
```

Mount WebDav as a regular file systemed using davfs2

Under Debian or Ubuntu
- ```
      sudo apt-get install davfs2
```
Under RedHat
- ```
      yum install davfs2
```

Add your user to davfs2 group

      sudo usermod -a -G davfs2 username
      dpkg-reconfigure davfs2  (If you want to mount the resource as user instead of root)

Create the mount directory
- ```
      sudo mkdir /mnt/WebDav
```
Mount the file system

Volatil

      sudo mount.davfs 'https://pool01.ifca.es' /mnt/WebDav
      username@laptop:~$ sudo mount.davfs 'https://pool01.ifca.es' /mnt/WebDav
      [sudo] password for username: 
      Please enter the username to authenticate with server
      https://pool01.ifca.es or hit enter for none.
      Username: username
      Please enter the password to authenticate user username with server
      https://pool01.ifca.es/username or hit enter for none.
      Password:  
      mount.davfs: the server certificate is not trusted
      issuer:      irisgrid, es
      subject:     ifca, irisgrid, es
      identity:    http://pki.irisgrid.es/audit/?id=a25b200c1
      fingerprint: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
      You only should accept this certificate, if you can
      verify the fingerprint! The server might be faked
      or there might be a man-in-the-middle-attack.
      Accept certificate for this session? [y,N] y
      username@laptop:~$ df -h
      .................
      https://pool01.ifca.es   26G   13G   13G  50% /mnt/WebDav

Permanet (edit /etc/fstab anf add the following line)

      https://pool01.ifca.es /mnt/WedDav   davfs   user,rw,noauto   0   0

Then

      mount /mnt/WedDav

Common Issues

If you get the error file exits
- Edit /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf and add:
  use_locks 0
If the files disappear from webdav directory
- Edit /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf and add:
  if_match_bug 1

The WebDav Service

HOWTO use WebDav

Windows

Linux

Common Issues