Dreamweaver and Webdav

[dg77]

I have a problem using webdav with dreamweaver cs4.

I have vault 5.0.1 installed and it works perfectly with it's own client, with dreamweaver 8 with direct integration and with visual studio.

I have recently upgraded from dreamweaver 8 to cs4 and want to use webdav as the remote server in order to check files in and out.

I have constructed my url following the guidance in the vault user manual and when I put this into a browser I get a login dialog which when completed returns a webpage as expected with a list of files/folders in the specified location. So that seems to be working fine.

When I enter that exact same url into dreamweaver cs4 I get an error message that says "An HHTP error occured. Dreamweaver cannot make a connection to host. Access Denied. The file may not exist, or there may be a permission problem".

Incidentally, I have played around with the url and if I strip it back to just http://localhost/sgdav no error occurs, it is when I add wd.ashx and anything after that that the error occurs.

I should add that I am running the Vault server on a Windows XP pc that runs IIS 5.1.

Can anyone help or offer any suggestions?

[lbauer]

CS4 should work with WebDav, the same as Dreamweaver 8.

1) We'd like to see your IIS log. To find the log, open IIS in Control Panel->Admin Tools, and right-click on the website where the Vault Service is installed, then select properties. At the bottom oft he Website tab, Enable Logging should be checked, and by clicking the Properties button, you'll see the name of the log and the path where the log can be found.

2) We also want to see Dreamweaver's "Ftp log" which is found in Dreamweaver under Site / Advanced / FTP Log This log is valid only
for the current session, so it would be best to reproduce the problem, then send us your logs.

3) Send us a screen shot of your Dreamweaver webdav settings. This would be the Remote info showing the WebDav configuration in Dreamweaver under Site->Manage Sites-><site name>.

It might also be helpful to see a copy of the Vault Server log. The Vault Server log is called sgvault.log and is in %windir%\temp\sgvault on the server machine.

As I mentioned earlier, it would be best to make sure all logging is in place, then reproduce the problem. Let me know what time in the log correlates with the time the error occurred.

Send the logs zipped up to support at sourcegear.com, Attn: Linda. Please include a link to this forum post.

[dg77]

Hi

I have emailed the log files and screen view of the settings over. Does this help at all?

[lbauer]

Vault's WebDav is incompatible with IIS 5, unfortunately. Our testing and implementation was all done with IIS 6 and above. I did some testing to see if I could get it to work on my XP machine, and was unsuccessful. Evidently, IIS 5 does not alllow .NET handlers the access they need for our WebDav implementation to work properly. This functionality is available starting with IIS 6.

If the XP machine is the only one available to you, you could run the server on a VM with Windows 2003, 2008, Vista, Windows 7 or higher.

Or you can use the Vault client to do checkouts, gets, etc., into your working folders, and continue development in Dreamweaver.

Sorry I don't have better news.