The WebDav Service

• 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

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  2. Map Network Drive

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  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.

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  5. Click Finish
  6. Enter yourA Ldap user name and password.

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Linux

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

  1. 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:username/

  2. 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

1. If you get the error file exits

   • Edit /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf and add:

     use_locks 0

2. If the files disappear from WebDav directory

   • Edit /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf and add:

     if_match_bug 1