WebDAV sharing services not working

Thanks for this clarification. Now I know where my mistake came from. I created a Folder "webdav". So I had to put in the URL https://server.example.com/webdav/webdav/iWork

So I didn't recognize that I have to put in /webdav/ twice. My fault.

Now it works as supposed.

Thanks a lot!

What address are you using? It should be https://yourserver/webdav/

If you access it in your browser (at least Safari) it will indeed show Forbidden, trying through Finder whould work though.

Before you go back...

Try ("*" is for the default host in the "Web" service, for any other replace it with the right domain name)

sudo webappctl status com.apple.webapp.webdavsharing "*"

If this says "running" search your logs (via Console.app) for any mentions of WebDav. Also see what the console on the client says.

Whenever I tried to connect using Finder Console reported 503.

If it's not running:

sudo webappctl start com.apple.webapp.webdavsharing "*"

This should start it (in this case for the default domain).

Got this same problem and it was due to the fact that there was no ~/Libray/Logs folder for apache to create the apache webdav user instance log.

Fixed it with a simple

mkdir ~/Library/Logs

in a terminal session suing the accoutn that didn't work.

I don't really know why but some of my users had the Library/Logs folder others didn't...go figure...

I had to stop and restart the web service in Server.app efter creating the missing folder

Hope this helps.

As I said before check this:

sudo webappctl status com.apple.webapp.webdavsharing "*"

If this says "running" search your logs (via Console.app) for any mentions of WebDav, since there will probably be some config file problem. Also see what the console on the client says.

Whenever I tried to connect using Finder Console reported 503.

If it's not running:

sudo webappctl start com.apple.webapp.webdavsharing "*"

This should start it (in this case for the default domain).

You have to type in https://server.example.com/webdav/ (or http) in Finder, that way it'll connect using WebDAV.

Any directory that is shared (and the user's home directory) are available directly at:

https://server.example.com/webdav/[name-of-directory]

So, if you have a directory shared through WebDAV called iWork you can get into it directly using:

https://server.example.com/webdav/iWork

If it's in the home directory (so ~/iWork) it would be:

https://server.example.com/webdav/[users_shortname]/iWork

(If you have multiple short names for a user I don't know which it'll take, it seems this isn't always the same, but I'm not certain)

Did you try in Finder (or another webdav client) or Safari?

In Safari it will indeed say forbidden (it will always as far as I know). It should work in Finder though.

After looking into /private/etc/apache2/httpd_webdavsharing_sharepoints.conf it sets all my shares as:

Allow from 127.0.0.1

I try change to Allow from All, but after saving the file with admin permissions and reseting the sharing service, it just rewrites the file back to 127.0.0.1. Frustrating!

Hi Alexander,

I trief your suggestions and got back that web services are running.

If I try to connect to https://myserver.dyndns.org/WebDAV I asked for Username and password. But this isn't accepted. I have. Tried with a local user also with a OD Domainuser and get the same error:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /webdav/ on this server.

Apache/2.2.19 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.19 OpenSSL/0.9.8r DAV/2 Server at 192.168.1.40 Port 443.

So I am really without a clue what to do.

Io shows shows me:

Warn: incomplete redirection target of '/webdav/' for URI '/webdav' Modified to 'https://my.dyndns.xxx/webdav/'

Any ideas?

I have this same problem, I cannot connect no matter what... get prompted, but just tells me "there was a problem connecting to the server "servername.com".

You'd think they would test this... let me know if you find a solutuion, because this is ticking me off.

I did connect through finder, bt this is an afp connection. How ever no it works from my iPad apps as I want it. But Omnifocus is having trouble placing its server database there and sync. It seems, that Apple has changed something.

How ever I couldn't find out how to point direct into an directory. It seems not possible to point i.e. Pages for iPad to use the directory iWork. If you try to login directly into an directory other than webdav it doesn't work.

Any Ideas?

And I'll have to try with different userse using their private directories.

Regards

_ragle - The "Allow from 127.0.0.1" directive in that file is correct. The main httpd listens on all addresses, and proxies requests for /webdav/* to the user-specific httpds, listening on 127.0.0.1, on the same machine. The configuration directives in /private/etc/apache2/httpd_webdavsharing_sharepoints.conf apply only to the user-specific instances of httpd.

My problem is exactly this issue. Can you elaborate a little bit more on how you got it work? What do you mean by "in the terminal using the user account"?

For example, if the user account is "psmith". i am in terminal, what do i type or where do i go?

I can access webdav with mac os x (command K), and ios devices for some users, but some others I get error 503.

Any feedback will be appreacited.