Aw: Tiki and Webdav
Hello Eric,
As WebDAV could be an interesting thing for me and my company as well, I spent a little time today investigating the stuff. I use Windows 7 and Windows Vista Clients which behave different from Windows XP.
I added a rewrite rule to my .htaccess reading your first post before sept posted on this thread. It did not change the behaviour of Windows in any way and when I looked at the access log of my server, I found out that Windows was not even trying to connect to the server. So the conclusion for me was that the problem does not lie in Tiki but in Windows which objects to the URL or whatever.
I solved the problem for Windows by
a) using the Firefox Plugin mentioned on the help page
b) using the freeware BitKinex Software
Even though it would be nice to have the folder as network drive in my Windows Explorer, I found a working solution in 30 or so minutes while waiting for some other programs to finish.
I can't help you with the MAC, as I only have 2 MacII in my museum and they don't have a web browser on them.
Concerning your point of view of "free software": "Free" means that you don't have to pay for the stuff which is already there. But it does not mean that the support for it must be free and the features it provides fit your needs.
Maybe we should not about the price of the software but about the value it can create for your company/customer. If there is a commercial product out there, you pay amount X to generate a revenue from your customer or solve your problem which costs you money. So, if I solve a problem for you using tiki or any other "free" software, I'll charge you for my knowledge/time. And as long as the amount is smaller than the amount X you would pay for another project, it's a win/win situation and you pay gladly and don't object that this feature/function goes back to the community where others can now use it for free.
At the moment, I have to work to make my living and therefore the time I can devote to programming / documenting tiki is limited by my family, my work and my hobbies. And its up to me, what I do in the time. This is not a hospital where someone assigns me a job, but it's a project where I am "free" to work on the parts I like. And that is exactly the reason, why I (as a developer/IT consultant) also spend some of my "free" time for tiki.
You are right, that the documentation is far from perfect, but instead of complaining, you might start contributing and improving things. For example, you could document the steps/error messages you get here.