Confluence WebDAV with Windows 7 and Vista

August 24, 2009 by Ben Shoemate 

Doesn’t work. Stop trying. Give up. Sure it works in XP. And the web will lead you on a lot of wild goose chases but basically, the problem is windows vista (and windows 7) don’t really support webdav. They say they do, but it is buggy, and there are a million things that break it. I tried every documented "solution" on the web – nothing works. (I can not access it either in webdav – I’m using Win7 64bit version.)

If you want to connect to a webdav server (such as Confluence wiki) so you can drag and drop files, do this:

The Solution:

1) Download and install: http://www.independentsoft.com/independentdav/index.html

2) Once you have it installed (note you may need .net but it comes with vista)

Open it and past the url into the main bar: http://serverdomain.com/wiki/plugins/servlet/webdav (for confluence – use what ever your path is)

3) enter user name and password from wiki (leave domain blank)

Viola – enjoy dragging and dropping files into confluence.

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Comments

  • Ian
    Hi

    How do you set up WebDAV with confluence? I have installed the plugin in the admin plugin repository but how do you use WebDAV in Confluence as you would in a Sharepoint site.

    For example setting up an area within confluence for just HR another area for sales etc

    The path /plugins/servlet/webdav does not exist on my install or a folder called webdav? I am using Confluence 3.0.2

    any ideas?
  • Paul
    Argh. ARGH. *ARGH!*
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