WebDAV and eZ Publish 4.1

Friday 10 April 2009 5:53:22 am

Hi all,

I've used eZ Publish for some years now and am loving it!

Unfortunately I've never succeeded in getting a stable WebDAV implementation up and running.

So I was very pleased to read about the improved WebDAV support in eZ Publish 4.1. I've installed it and changed webdav.ini to enable WebDAV Support.

I've created a new Apache 2 Virtual Host on port 80 that redirects every request to webdav.php.

I can now access my folders by using Explorer and I see the three default siteaccesses 'ezwebin_site_user', 'ezwebin_site_admin' and 'dut' (since I've chosen Dutch as primary language).

However, I can not open any of the folders. Instead of requesting my user name and password I receive an error stating (depending on the client OS I've tried) something like:

\\webdav.myurl.com\DavWWWRoot\dut is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use this network resource. The request is not supported.

I've tried XP and Windows 7 with different clients and they all give similar results.

Can anyone help me out here? Do I need to assign additional permissions? Does anyone know where I should find the (logical?) DavWWWRoot?

Any help is highly appreciated. I'd love to get this to work!

Thank you for your time,

Maarten

Wednesday 22 April 2009 12:12:12 am

Hi,

Read carefully this document about webdav and supported clients. Especially part about Internet Explorer
http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/stable/4.1/doc/features/4.1/webdav_readme.txt

You might also look on the article:
http://ez.no/developer/articles/ez_publish_knowledge_series_webdav_support_in_ez_publish_4_1_now_using_ez_components

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Wednesday 22 April 2009 4:29:27 pm

Maarten,

We had a similar problem a couple of years ago. It ended up being caused by insufficient permissions for a folder which eZ Publish needs to write to for webdav - a temp folder I think. I'm afraid I can't remember (and the email traffic was to a corporate account which I don't have any more) exactly which, but it was under /var.

Hope this helps.

Paul Bolger

Thursday 07 May 2009 12:44:50 am

>> We got Webdav working on 4.1, but the folders show up as images or some generic type.

BTW, we got this issue on a installation that had been upgraded from 3.7 to 4.1.

Fix:

In \kernel\private\classes\webdav\ezwebdavcontentbackend.php:
1. Fix the display of folders: in the function isObjectFolder( $object, &$class ) we had to change $class->ClassIdentifier into $class->Identifier

2. Fix access to the Media folder: in the function fetchNodeInfo( $target, &$node ) we changes if ( $virtualFolder === self::virtualContentFolderName() ) into if ( $virtualFolder === self::virtualContentFolderName() or $virtualFolder === self::virtualMediaFolderName() )

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