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I use A2hosting.com for web site hosting, and just found "Web Disk" in cPanel (where apps etc. are configured). Note: cPanel is available on some other hosting sites as well. Based on what I've read elsewhere, it appears that uses WebDAV. Anyone tried this out with OmniFocus yet? Just curious. I may have time to fiddle with it this weekend.

Bob

Last edited by omnibob; 2008-07-10 at 05:22 PM..
 
my host uses cpanel webdisk, and it is indeed webDAV.

I had problems getting the first sync to work, so I copied my database from ~/Library/Application Support/OmniFocus to the server before turning on Sync and things seem to be going okay since. The symptom I was seeing before was "in progress" files littered all over the directory.
 
That's promising, thanks.
 
I'm trying to get ready for the iPhone OF software. I've setup a WebDav server and can access it as a webdisk.

I could never get OF 1.1 to do the initial sync, it would only create empty folders with a name containing "copy-in-progress".

I followed the suggestion of some others in this forum and copied ~/Library/Application Support/OmniFocus/OmniFocus.ofocus to the WebDav share.

Attempts to sync after that don't complain, but aren't successful either. I end up with files which contain "write-in-progress" in the name. These are never renamed, leaving many "write-in-progress" files behind.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated. I've been waiting for iPhone OF for a LONG time and I need to get this working as quickly as I can.

Help!
 
cPanel "Web Disk" is indeed webDAV.

I just setup a user and I can connect via Finder (Go > Connect to server) or using Transmit webDAV option...

Unfortunately, when I try to synch with OF, it does ask me for a password, so the initial connection seems to work but when I enter account info, I get:

"Unable to authenticate with WebDAV Server. Please check that the user name and password you provided are correct."

I copy+pasted those so something else is going on... Gonna try and check Apache logs and report back if I figure it out. In the meantime, if anyone got it working, please let us know if you did anything special... Thanks!
 
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I get:

"Unable to authenticate with WebDAV Server. Please check that the user name and password you provided are correct."

I copy+pasted those so something else is going on...
You can look in cPanel webdisk section to double-check what it should be.

I think it expects the entire "username@domain.com" as your username. Did you try that?

I got past that but can't get past the "in progress" file problems.

Good luck.
 
thanks for the reply - but yeah, I did - I can loggin WebDAV via Finder and Transmit... so that's not the problem... searching searching... :)

update: I'm now at my 3rd webdav server setup and I keep on getting the same error (while they all work fine via Finder and Transmit). I give up and will email omni support to try to get this fixed.

Last edited by yann; 2008-07-11 at 07:33 AM..
 
Weird - I have A2 hosting and am trying to use the webdisk method. I put the url of the webdisk I set up into OF as "https://www.MYDOMAINNAME.com/webdavstorage/" (where webdavstorage is the name of the webdisk I created in cpanel)

When I try to sync all I get is an error that says "expired server certificate" with no opprotunity to input username or password.

Any thoughts? I will be buying the full application and its iphone counterpart if I can get them to work with my a2 hosting.
 
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I put the url of the webdisk I set up into OF as "https://www.MYDOMAINNAME.com/webdavstorage/" (where webdavstorage is the name of the webdisk I created in cpanel)

When I try to sync all I get is an error that says "expired server certificate" with no opprotunity to input username or password.
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I'm guessing "webdavstorage" is the username. So, try specifying the path as "https://www.MYDOMAINNAME.com/". It'll probably then ask for username and password, and when you enter them send you to the home directory for that user (which is https://www.MYDOMAINNAME.com/webdavstorage/).

Don't forget, it probably wants you to enter username as "webdavstorage@MYDOMAINNAME.com".

Good luck.
 
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When I try to sync all I get is an error that says "expired server certificate" with no opprotunity to input username or password.
Can you mount the share in the finder? If so you might be able to get around the certificate message by accepting it there.
 
 


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