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So myself and a co-worker are attempting to setup and configure a Webdav server/directory. After much frustration in trying to get connected. I finally had an epiphany. My co-worker installed URLScan and had it configured so that things were relatively locked down.

google(URLScan), of which I have used very little, consists of a *.dll file and an *.ini file (for configuration). Its sole purpose is to analyze URL requests and allow or deny them based on the configuration settings identified in the *.ini file. I believe its an add-on application of sorts for IIS that Microsoft released. Its purpose (I think) is to help server administrators lock down the wide variety of openings IIS leaves available, but for some reason doesn’t provide the control for natively through the IIS Manager interface.

We were running into problems trying to transfer files over via Webdav from both Windows and Apple based systems that have native Webdav support. The server logs should have been the first place I looked, but …. alas it was not. When I finally started looking at the server logs and URLScan’s log, I realized that key google(Webdav verbs) were being denied by URLScan. A simple modification of the *.ini file to allow those *verbs* needed by Webdav to pass through was all it took to start sharing/publishing files through a familiar network drive type interface.

Now that I have the base level thing working, I need to get access rights figured out (I only want specific users to have access to specific folders).

Angie (the wife) and I are heading to google(Atlanta, Georgia) for a bi-annual Mennonite conference. We volunteered to sponsor the 5 or so youth from our church to attend the event. I was in a state of denial for a while about our going, but now I’m starting to get excited and I am looking forward to the event. The weather for our time down there doesn’t sound the best, but I still think it will be a good experience for everyone involved.

So its been soooo long since I’ve made a post, it actually seems embarrassing to try and do so. I could make up some sort of excuse like, “OH! I’ve just been SO insanely busy that I haven’t had the time.” or “We moved.” or “I was really really sick.”, but none of those things would be true. What’s more, what to talk about? I’ve realized more and more that there is so much information sometimes to try and disseminate that its hard to keep up.

One particularly interesting note, I learned that David Wiley has joined the google(Creative Commons) organization, and dropped development of his own google(Open Content) liscense. In doing so it prompted me to take a couple minutes and include the CC liscense in the lower right.

Changing topic, I’ve also looked long and hard on occasion for some sort of image/video/media gallery type plug-in for MovableType, but haven’t been able to find anything that would work well. I have a repository type PHP/MySQL application that’s fairly primitive, but might lend itself toward modification to accomplish this goal. There are better online photo albumns out there, but I’m interested in something that would allow for a multitude of media types and the posting of descriptions/comments relative to each. Who knows, maybe this will be the motivator to start rolling again.