WebDAV woes

tstacey
Hi! My lab has been busy trying to set up a WebDAV to interface with Zotero so we don't have to pay for the hosting, the price of which will be relatively prohibitive considering the size of our library. Unfortunately, the documentation on how to achieve this functionality of Zotero is relatively sparse so any help would be much appreciated! We set up the WebDAV but Zotero doesn't seem to want to cooperate: We get error messages saying "-8". We also tried the .php patch offered in one of the threads to no avail. Is there any easy step by step procedure to get Zotero to host on something locally, and if so, could you point me in the right direction?
  • dstillman
    Zotero doesn't currently display helpful messages for some more obscure WebDAV verifcation errors, but -8 means it received "400 Bad Request" from the server.

    You can view debug output for the verification attempt to see more details, but basically this indicates a problem with your WebDAV server. Configure your WebDAV server correctly and Zotero will work. That's about all we can tell you, as we're not able to troubleshoot problems with individual WebDAV servers.
  • few
    Check out http://code.google.com/p/sabredav/

    Really good installation directions for SabreDAV are at http://forum.teamdrive.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=3168

    I have this running on my PHP 5 network file server at home, I'm considering running it on a lab network file server also. Your university may support WebDAV through CTools (the University of Michigan supports WebDAV through CTools, but only 1 GB per group, and there doesn't seem to be a way of chaining multiple WebDAV servers together within zotero).
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