Comments on: Microsoft breaks WebDAV in Windows XP, Vista http://opensourcesmall.biz/archives/2008/06/microsoft-breaks-webdav-in-windows-xp-vista/ The living site of the book by John Locke Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:46:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Kay Williams http://opensourcesmall.biz/archives/2008/06/microsoft-breaks-webdav-in-windows-xp-vista/#comment-135264 Kay Williams Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:12:57 +0000 http://opensourcesmall.biz/?p=251#comment-135264 We've been trying to get Vista working against our Apache Webdav server with Basic Auth over SSL for over a year. On some systems, mapping a network drive worked but creating a web folder didn't, and vice versa. Even when it worked, it was unreliable, e.g. mapped network drives didn't automatically reconnect on startup, Office 2007 applications could open files, but failed to save them, even though we could drag/replace into an open web folder on the desktop. Since our Windows XP clients worked fine, we assumed the issue was with the MS webdav redirector. After reading the blog entry above at http://www.borlik.net/blog/archives/000157.html, however, we decided to take a closer look at the apache configuration. After making the three server-side modifications below, Vista now works like a charm. 1. Added 'dav on' to the root folder of the virtual server (the blog entry shows an example. 2. Added to the root folder, and all child folders with unique access restrictions. 3. Gave the apache user read/write access to all files (this was causing the save failures). Thanks for the pointers and links! We’ve been trying to get Vista working against our Apache Webdav server with Basic Auth over SSL for over a year. On some systems, mapping a network drive worked but creating a web folder didn’t, and vice versa. Even when it worked, it was unreliable, e.g. mapped network drives didn’t automatically reconnect on startup, Office 2007 applications could open files, but failed to save them, even though we could drag/replace into an open web folder on the desktop. Since our Windows XP clients worked fine, we assumed the issue was with the MS webdav redirector.

After reading the blog entry above at http://www.borlik.net/blog/archives/000157.html, however, we decided to take a closer look at the apache configuration. After making the three server-side modifications below, Vista now works like a charm.

1. Added ‘dav on’ to the root folder of the virtual server (the blog entry shows an example.

2. Added to the root folder, and all child folders with unique access restrictions.

3. Gave the apache user read/write access to all files (this was causing the save failures).

Thanks for the pointers and links!

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