Hadoop WebDAV server is based the earlier work and is released under an Apache License, Version 2.0

The WebDAV server is built on the top of Hadoop distribution, so make sure you have sources from hadoop-0.16.* or 
hadoop-0.17.* unpacked in some location. WebDAV server may be deployed on any node of Hadoop subnet, inside or outside
of cluster. It uses some libraries from Hadoop's lib/ dir, stores logs into logs/ dir. See Installation section for more details.

We provide both sources and binary files: see attachment at the bottom.

History of the hadoop WebDAV server

We used sources at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-496 and after fixing URL-decoding bug in it corrected 
server code:

• to enable authorization dialog with the client and
• to support authentication and HDFS-permissions
  

We also provided start/stop scripts for this server. 

Download the hadoop WebDAV server source from attachment below.

WebDAV uses some libs from Hadoop distribution, so you have to update build.xml file and specify value of "hadoop.dir" property 
to point to your unpacked Hadoop distribution.

Download and put into ./lib dir following jars that Hadoop-WebDAV depends on:

• jackrabbit-jcr-commons-1.4-SNAPSHOT.jar
• jackrabbit-jcr-server-1.4-SNAPSHOT.jar
• jackrabbit-webdav-1.4-SNAPSHOT.jar
• commons-collections-3.2.jar
• slf4j-api-1.3.0.jar
• slf4j-log4j12-1.3.0.jar
• xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar
• jcr-1.0.jar

You can use following links:

http://mirror.olnevhost.net/pub/apache/jackrabbit/binaries/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-collections/commons-collections/3.2/commons-collections-3.2.jar
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.3.0/slf4j-api-1.3.0.jar
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/slf4j/slf4j-log4j12/1.3.0/slf4j-log4j12-1.3.0.jar
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/xerces/xercesImpl/2.8.1/xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/jcr/jcr/1.0/jcr-1.0.jar

Then use 'ant' to compile the sources, find hdfs_webdav.jar in build/ dir.


Installation

1. Unpack webdav.tar.bz2 distribution to any location (for example, /home/user/webdav).
2. Modify config file hadoop-webdav.sh to satisfy your configuration:

• HADOOP_WEBDAV_HOST, HADOOP_WEBDAV_PORT - address and port WebDAV server will listen to.
• HADOOP_WEBDAV_HDFS - The name of the HDFS, e.g. namenode:port in case if you run WebDAV server on nodes that are different from the master. If this parameter is not specified, WebDAV will try determine name of the FS from 'fs.default.name' parameter, specified in hadoop-site.xml of your Hadoop installation.
• HADOOP_WEBDAV_CLASSPATH parameter should point to lib directory from where you unpacked WebDAV distribution.

3. Copy neccessary files to Hadoop distribution.

• Put bin/start-webdav.sh and bin/stop-webdav.sh to Hadoop's bin directory (for example, /home/user/hadoop/bin).
• Put files from conf/ dir (hadoop-webdav.sh, accounts.properties,jetty.xml, web.xml) to Hadoop's config dir (/home/user/hadoop/conf/).

Permission configuration

Correct account_properties file in ./conf directory for correct account information. See more details here.


Running

In order to start WebDAV server run from Hadoop's home dir (for example, /home/user/hadoop):

    # ./bin/start-webdav.sh

To stop the WebDAV server you have to run 

    # ./bin/stop-webdav.sh

Known client-specific issues for Windows "native" clients