Webdav server using Openstack Swift as a backend. Sample config uses Pylons Waitress to allow chunked uploads; this is required by some clients (eg. OSX).

1. Install swiftdav:

   git clone git://github.com/cschwede/swiftdav.git cd swiftdav sudo python setup.py install

2. Modify server.py and configure your Swift proxy settings. Defaults to 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/v1.0'. If you are using Keystone you need to set the auth_version to 2 and use the Keystone URL.

3. Run wsgidav with OpenStack Swift backend:

   python server.py

4. You have to use ';' instead of ':' to separate account and user in your username, for example 'test;tester'. Basic auth uses ':' already to separate username and password.

If you're using davfs2 you could use the following settings in /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf:

use_locks       0
precheck        0

Due to Swifts eventual consistency there is no guarentee that locking and prechecking succeeds. However, swiftdav supports some fake locking because some clients require this to enable write access.

Renaming is currently only allowed for empty containers and empty pseudofolders. Copying, moving and renaming of containers and objects is only possible by executing a remote COPY and this requires a lot of resources and is a non-atomic operation. This can create various problems on the client side and is thus no longer supported.

There are a few settings you might need to change:

1. Slow response on Windows 7: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2445570
2. Problems with files larger than 50MB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2668751
3. Error "The folder name is not valid": http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928692

Functional tests require a running server and Swift installation (SAIO). Just start them with your favorite test runner, eg.:

nosetests

There is an additional shell script to execute some basic operations on a davfs2 mountpoint located in test/test_davfs2.sh.

You can also run the litmus test suite. However, a lot of tests will fail because copying and moving of objects as well as proper locking are not supported.

Source code: http://www.webdav.org/neon/litmus/

tar xzvf litmus-0.13.tar.gz 
cd litmus-0.13/
./configure 
make

swift delete litmus
make URL=http://127.0.0.1:8000/ CREDS='test\;tester testing' check