Niels Christensen
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Posted: September 07, 2009 15:18 by Niels Christensen
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Ubuntu has integrated support for WebDAV which is used for managing a project's website as described in http://kenai.com/projects/help/pages/UploadWebsiteFiles Ubuntu users access this features by clicking on "Places" and choosing "Connect to server", and a server connection can be bookmarked for later use. This is handy, but unfortunately the Ubuntu client insists that a URL for a secure WebDAV folder uses the protocol "davs://", which Kenai websites do not. If you try to specify the Kenai URL directly, the client will assume it's just a regular HTTPS folder and open it in your browser. I realize that this is more of a weakness in Ubuntu than in Kenai, but setting up a "davs://" alias for the project website folder would be really useful for Ubuntu users. Until you do, the following is the workaround I found, which other Ubuntu users may find useful. If anyone has a better solution, do write! Install "cadaver": sudo apt-get install cadaver Connect to the project website: cadaver https://kenai.com/website/your-project-name Upload a file: put /home/your-user-name/your-file.html This will put "your-file.html" in the top-level website folder. Use "help" in cadaver for more info. |
Let Ubuntu users access WebDAV sites using "Places"
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john_brock
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Posted: September 08, 2009 20:32 by john_brock
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Hi Niels, One of our developers is an avid Ubuntu user. I've asked him to take a look at this, since I'm pretty sure he was already doing something with this. Hope to have something soon. Thanks for providing the workaround. The Project Kenai Team |
mw46d
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Posted: September 08, 2009 22:24 by mw46d
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Hi Niels, I'm more a Kubuntu user, but for dolphin (the KDE file manager), the protocol specifier I use, is actually `webdavs://' and it works just fine. It looks like the Ubuntu setup sends a OPTIONS request to kenai.com and apache answers with a 301 to that. I don't really know why it's doing that  I'll have to look more into that.Thanks for bringing that to our attention. I'll file an issue on that and see if I can find out more. Thanks, -- Marco |
Peter Mount
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Posted: September 14, 2009 11:33 by Peter Mount
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Although primarily a mac user these days, I find using davfs2 on ubuntu a lot faster... sudo apt-get install davfs2 sudo dpkg-reconfigure davfs2 Then edit /etc/group and add your normal user account to the davfs2 group, e.g. I have: davfs2:x:124  eterThen create a directory for the project under /mnt - e.g. for me I have: mkdir /mnt/retepTools Finally under /etc/fstab: https://kenai.com/website/reteptools /mnt/reteptools davfs user,rw,noauto 0 0 After all that, as your usual user you can simply run: mount /mnt/reteptools enter the username/password and thats it - it's mounted and pretty fast (compared to OSX which seems to add a lot of traffic and isn't that stable). Peter |
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Niels Christensen
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Posted: September 11, 2009 08:26 by Niels Christensen
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| Thanks for taking this up! Don't hesitate to poke me if you get a chance to work on this and want some testing. |
Amanj Mustafa
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Posted: October 06, 2009 17:39 by Amanj Mustafa
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What about OpenSolaris! it has the same problem + there is no cadaver in the default repository, you only can find one which is in blastwave.org, and I don't really know if I trust this repository any more or not
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