RENCI and DFC have arranged to OEM the milton 'enterprise' libraries as part of iRODS WebDav support, providing full WebDav 2 capability, free for you to deploy and use with your iRODS grid. Therefore, we have developed a drop-in .war file that contains all of the necessary compiled code and keys, and exported the configuration to /etc/irods-ext/irods-webdav.properties.
Install is thus rather straight forward:
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Install the release .war file on your container (e.g. Tomcat)
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Copy the irods-webdav.properties to /etc/irods-ext and make it readable by the tomcat or other container service user
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Configure irods-webdav.properties to your particular grid. Note that WebDav uses a preset host/port/zone and translates the Basic Authentication credentials of the user to set the logged in account
Note that WebDav needs to be at a root url (e.g. http://mywebdav.org versus http://mywebdav.org/somecontext) at port 80, or with https:// on the standard port. If it is not thus configured, certain clients may not properly connect (such as Mac Finder or Windows Explorer).
See the compatability notes at Milton for tips
The iRODS Consortium did a nice blog post on installing and configuring that can be accessed here