Rsync to unmounted webdav share

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if I want to transfer files to a webdav share, can I do that directly to the server that the share originates from, or does it need to be mounted on the machine that I send the rsync to?
The thing is, I sort of can't mount that webdav share anywhere, but it's accessible through a browser. That'll let me download things, but not upload via rsync. So I'm wondering, can I get rsync to put things on the webdav share while it isn't mounted anywhere?
I figure authentication might be a problem, because afaik rsync uses the ssh protocol, so how can I make it authenticate to webdav?

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You can only use rsync to connect to the webdav share if you first mount the webdav share on a system that you can ssh to. For example, in linux you can use something like davfs. After you do that, the webdav share will appear as a regular filesystem on your system.

So for example, if you used davfs to mount the webdav share on your linux machine 'foo.example.com', you could then run rsync on another machine and connect to foo.example.com over ssh to access your files.

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Centos – WebDAV on CentOS – getting 403 error when attempt to upload

I recently struggled with the same problem on my Fedora 10 system. In my case the culprit was some odd redirection that I was doing in Apache. Specifically, I use a content management system (Drupal, to be exact) that within it's .htaccess includes the following redirection logic to redirect missing files to a PHP script:

# Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

It makes sense that the above only affects the PUT method since in that case REQUEST_FILENAME does not exist.

Not having the WebDAV area inside of the Drupal area, which seems like a reasonable constraint, fixes the problem.

Also, I think it is likely that SELinux would result in a different error, but it's not mentioned in the discussion above. Did you try disabling SELinux?

Debian – How to upload to WebDAV using a web browser

AFAIK there is no built-in support for webdav in browsers.

I think there are applications and AJAX libraries you could run on your web server that would make webdav through the browser possible. A quick google search for ajax webdav showed one interesting looking product (http://www.webdavsystem.com/ajaxfilebrowser). I have never used this, just happened to look neat when I did a search related to this question.

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