How to enable WebDAV in IIS

[XDRoX]

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) extends the HTTP/1.1 protocol to allow clients to publish, lock, and manage resources on the Web. WebDAV lets you edit files on the server instead of needing to download them first to the client. WebDAV uses port 80, the same port used by HTTP for web access. So using WebDAV means you don’t have to open any extra ports on your firewall. Integrated into IIS, WebDAV allows clients to do the following:

• Manipulate resources in a WebDAV publishing directory on your server. For example, users who have been assigned the correct rights can copy and move files around in a WebDAV directory.
• Modify properties associated with certain resources. For example, a user can write to and retrieve a file's property information.
• Lock and unlock resources so that multiple users can read a file concurrently. However, only one person can modify the file at a time.
• Search the content and properties of files in a WebDAV directory.

Before enabling WebDAV on your intranet, make sure that all WebDAV clients are running the WebClient service.

To enable the WebClient service on a WebDAV client machine:

1. From the Start menu, point to Administrative Tools, and click Computer Management.
2. In the details pane, double-click Services and Applications.
3. Double-click Services.
4. Scroll down, right-click WebClient, and click Properties.
5. In the Startup type list box, click Automatic.
6. Click Apply.
7. In the Service status section, click Start.
8. Click OK.

To install WebDAV on the IIS 6 or later machine, use "Add or Remove Programs" in "Control Panel" and run the "Windows Components Wizard". Go to "Application Server", "Internet Information Services", "World Wide Web Service" and then "WebDAV Publishing". Enable it by clicking on the check box before it and then click "OK" to save the changes.

[SpearMan]

To enable or disable WebDAV via registry then make the following changes in the registry:

1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
2. Locate and click the following key in the registry:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\Parameters
3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value:
   Value name: DisableWebDAV
   Data type: DWORD
   Value data: 1 (for disable) or 0 (for enable)
4. Restart IIS.