WebDAV

WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is an extension of the HTTP protocol that enables users to manage and collaboratively edit files on remote web servers. You can use Mover to connect to a server that supports WebDAV.

Add a WebDAV Connection

Create a new Connection for your site, and select WebDAV as the remote server type.

Provide a Connection Label so you can identify the connection in a list.

Server

Add the Hostname for your WebDAV server. The Hostname is a fully qualified domain name, not including any protocol prefix or path.

The default Port value of 443 is used for HTTPS. Only use an alternate port if the WebDAV server requires it. The other commonly used remote port, 80, typically means the server does not support SSL, in which case select http:// instead of https:// under protocol.

Indicate whether the Protocol for the connection is http:// or https://. The standard configuration uses https for the Protocol and 443 for the Port.

Authentication

Mover allows 2 different methods for authenticating with a WebDAV host. You can provide a username and password, or you can supply an SSL certificate for the connection.

Server Certificate

Mover expects that the WebDAV server is using fully valid and chained SSL Certificates. This means the certificate host name and domain name match the server's host name and domain name, including any wildcards. Fully valid certificates are valid for the current date, are not expired, and do not contain a start date that is in the future. Fully valid certificates are chained to a valid and trusted Certificate Authority.

If the server's certificate doesn't meet all of those requirements, then the WebDAV server is considered untrusted or self-signed. You can configure your Connection to allow using self-signed certificates.

If you're not sure whether the server's certificate is fully valid, online tools are available for checking the validity of a site's certificate. The SSL Shopper SSL checker and the DigiCert SSL certificate checker are two options.

Check For Case Sensitivity

Be aware of case sensitivity differences when copying, moving, or syncing files and folders between connections. Copying items from a system which is not case sensitive to another that is case sensitive could result in 1 item being treated as 2 different ones, such as attempting to overwrite MyFile.txt with myfile.txt .

In the other direction, copying from a case sensitive system to another that is not case sensitive can cause files to be overwritten, and folders to have their contents merged, if their case insensitive names are a match.