How to enable and use the WebDAV filesystem interface

Configuring Tomcat for WebDAV

On the newer DT versions, Tomcat ships configured to use port 80. I prefer to change this since a) port 80 is root-only on Unix and b) port 80 often has Apache camped on it already. Note that if either A or B is true, the Tomcat startup script will fail silently.

To change this, edit

$RBNB_HOME/apache-tomcat-*/conf/server.xml

from this

<Connector className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector"
               port="80" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
               enableLookups="true" redirectPort="8443"
               acceptCount="100" debug="0" connectionTimeout="20000"
               useURIValidationHack="false" disableUploadTimeout="true" />

to this

<Connector className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector"
               port="8080" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
               enableLookups="true" redirectPort="8443"
               acceptCount="100" debug="0" connectionTimeout="20000"
               useURIValidationHack="false" disableUploadTimeout="true" />

To save your eyes, I've bolded the only part that has to change.

Enabling write access

Tomcat is shipped from Creare with the DAV access set to read-only. This is a good security measure, but we'll need to change it. Edit

$RBNB_HOME/apache-tomcat-*/webapps/webdav/WEB-INF/web.xml

and change to match this. R/W is just commented out. 

<!-- Uncomment this to enable read and write access -->
<!--
    <init-param>
      <param-name>readonly</param-name>
      <param-value>false</param-value>
    </init-param>
-->

by removing the comments. You'll have to restart Tomcat for this to take effect.