Webdav0510En: Facilitate collective editing of some FFII sites
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19 Oct 2005 -- Sites like nosoftwarepatents.com, www.ffii.org and economic-majority.com need to be jointly edited online. The protocol of choice for this is http-based webdav. We need to get started. Here are some informations on how to install and use webdav on FFII sites.
Links
Experience on FFII.se
Authors at ffii.se use apache mod_dav and mozilla composer among other dav clients. Mozilla composer works surprisingly well with advanced style-sheets. MS Word and front page works too and windows can mount web-dav as a drive. To use 'add-network-place' in windows - you need use '@' in the user names in apache since windows otherwise adds a windows style domain server affix to user names.
The trick is to separate server-side-includes or cgi-functions, so that they are not overwritten with their results from execution. For this reason we have created a dav.ffii.se site that enables DAV and disables SSI or other kinds of server-executions.
Subversion module, svn.swpat.ffii.org site
A very nice function would be to use i e the subversion module for web-dav and check out changes to the www. site from the svn. site...
Meta data
Web-dav also supports meta data properties.
