Web Dav

About Web DAV

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (Web DAV) extends the HTTP/1.1 protocol to allow clients to publish, lock, and manage resources on the Web. Integrated into IIS, Web DAV allows clients to do the following:

• • Manipulate resources in a Web DAV publishing directory on your server. For example, with this feature, users with the correct permissions can copy and move files around in a Web DAV directory.
  • Modify properties associated with certain resources. For example, a user can write to and retrieve a file's property information.
  • Lock and unlock resources so that multiple users can read a file concurrently, but only one person at a time can modify the file.
  • Search the content and properties of files in a Web DAV directory.

Setting up a Web DAV publishing directory on your server is as straightforward as setting up a virtual directory through the IIS snap-in. Once you have set up your publishing directory, users with the correct permissions can publish documents to the server and manipulate files in the directory. Before you can set up a Web DAV directory, you must install Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

I have expirience to setup Web DAV using Apache webserver. For using my server as webdirectory.