How do I set up WebDAV on the server?

Okay.

I tried in Safari.

But now I tried as you said, in "Connect to server". And i get a login window. But if i use one of the users short names as login and there password, is says: That should control the server name and IP.

Ok - so you put the url into the window that opened up when you selected "connect to server"

When you click the "Connect" button, it should open up a shared disc just like AFP, NFS, SMB.

Have you tried this from an application on an iPad or an iPhone with an app that uses Webdav like Pages or Numbers?

Yes, I do as shown in the picture.

Yes I have tried an App. It doesn't work with that either.

Thank you very much for your help. I DID NOT know my correct short user name. That has solved my problem.

Nicki -

Don't really know what to tell you. You may need to reinstall if you're having that much problems. You may need to check the logs in /var/logs/ to help diagnose.

Sorry

Okay. Dammit

Where do I find that log?

Sorry. Pretty new at this.

If you go into Terminal and enter cd /var/log/apache2/ you'll see the logs. There should be an access_log and an error_log.

Nicki - did you enable the users permission to access the files you want via Finder or CLI? They need permission to access not only from the File Sharing in Server app, but also on the Folder itself...... Just a thought.

Is this a new Lion server? If not, did you migrate or upgrade your SLS to Lion?

Hello,

I have read this forum and I am doing everything correctly, but it will still not connect.

On the ipad (connecting to webdav via pages) it will not recongise the server if I use 'server.name.local', however when I use the IP address, it takes a while to verify but then says "an error occurred. please try again".

any clues??

I've noticed something else,

I have changed the 'host name' a few times and swapped between all 3 options to see if I can get webdav to work. If I change the host name name to say LOCAL, then I try to change it again a few minutes later, it thinks it is already PRIVATE when it should have been local. It's not happy and I cant find a way to reset or reinstall Lion Server.

What URL are you using in pages? Should be http://<ip>/webdav/<short_username>

The part where you're entering local sounds like a DNS issue. For you to enter an ip address to reach it and not any server_name.local or just server_name.

Correct DNS setup is essential to get it all working correctly. Check out the very helpful stuff from Hoffman Labs with regards to MAC DNS setup: http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1436

Anytime you change a configuration in your webdav, you should restart the webserver in Server.app. It seems to be much happier after you do this.

Also check the apache2 logs for errors: /var/log/apache2/

I've managed to get access to a WebDAV server (10.7.2 Lion Server) from a OS X 10.7 Mac by using the GO-->Conect To Server menu in the Finder, and pointing to

http://myserver.com/webdav/usershortname

But that takes me to a home directory for that single user on that machine. Since that server is, well, a server, the shared stuff is all in the SHARED directory which I can't seem to access from the user's home directory.

Oddly, on my iPhone using a WebDav app I can enter this address

http://myserver.com/webdav

When the iphone app requests the usershortname I give it the same shortname as above, but now I am promptly taken, as I would like, to the shared directory where our office's documents are stored. So, it works on the iPhone, not on the Mac. Huh.

Miserable experience... If I wanted something this complicated I would have used an old Win box and set up some stupid Linux or windows sharing service. I really thought this was going to be an Apple experience, but certainly hasn't been. :-(

MRMinSF:

Do you get the expected results when you use a WebDAV applications such as Transmit?

It took me a while but I think I managed to get mine working in 10.7 Server on a Mac mini.

I turned on web sharing in system preferences then set up file sharing in the server app

and assigned groups to the sharepoints.

Then I created user accounts and added them to the groups

and then I logged into those accounts on the server, to cement their account type.

After that, the accounts are accessible via https://<your-ip>/webdav/ from a Mac and from an iPad. But as somebody else pointed out, you must use the "short name" not hte full user name, to get in.

Windows access works but is a bit flaky, depending on what version of Windows. In W7 just right-click on the "computer" folder in an open window, and choose "add network location" then follow the instructions. But I had to specify a singke folder, such as https://<your-ip>/webdav/thisfolder/ to get it to work.

The slowest part for me was realizing that I needed to use an account that had already logged in on the server as a regular user. And then making sure that the user and group permissions and access lists didn't accidentally lock out a user.

Hope this helps!

I'm confused about the distinction between permissions in the Server App's File Sharing and the "Folder Itself"