Adobe GOLIVE CS2 User Manual page 460

To use WebDAV, you must have connection to a server with WebDAV capability, which can be any of the following:
Adobe Version Cue Workspace (a feature of the Adobe Creative Suite)
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• Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server (with mod_dav installed)
Microsoft IIS 5 (included with Windows 2000) and Microsoft IIS 6
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Microsoft Exchange Server
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• Apache (with mod_dav module installed)
Novell NetWare 6.0
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• Tomcat (with Jakarta Slide)
Tamino WebDAV Server
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Jigsaw
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Python WebDAV Server
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A web team can work on a WebDAV production server in house, and then use the GoLive Publish Server feature to
upload the site to a public server without WebDAV capability.
Locking files
The WebDAV protocol supports two kinds of locks—exclusive and shared:
• An exclusive lock set by someone else is indicated by the padlock icon
edit it. Other users have read-only access to the file.
An exclusive lock assigned to you is indicated by the pencil icon
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A shared lock assigned to other users is indicated by the shared lock icon
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lock simply alerts people that several individuals are editing the same file. It does not actually lock the file. People
without a shared lock can only read the document.
A shared lock you participate in is indicated by a variation of the shared lock icon
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Note: Shared locking is not supported by all servers.
To lock and unlock files and folders
1 In the Publish Server tab of the site window, select the file or files that you want to lock.
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the selected files or folders and do one of the following:
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To lock a file or selection of files, choose Lock or Shared Lock from the context menu, depending on whether you
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want an exclusive or shared lock. An exclusive lock or shared lock icon appears to the right of the file name in the
Publish Server tab.
To lock a folder, choose Lock All or Shared Lock All from the context menu.
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Note: Locking folders is unsupported by many servers, including Microsoft IIS 5. Only single files can be locked and
unlocked.
• To unlock files or folders, choose Unlock from the context menu. The locked icon to the right of the file names in
the Publish Server tab disappears.
To delete a file or folder
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the file or folder and choose Delete from the context menu.
. Only the user who locked the file can
. This indicates that only you can edit the file.
. Unlike an exclusive lock, the shared
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