Installing WebDAV server

[Fokke Nauta]

"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.809.1315328739.27778.python-list at python.org...
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:46:17 +0200, "Fokke Nauta"
> <fnautaNO at SPAMsolfon.nl> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
>> -------------------------------------------
>> Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] 
>> on
>> win32
>> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>> >>> import os.path
>> >>> os.path.isdir(path_name)
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
>>     os.path.isdir(path_name)
>> NameError: name 'path_name' is not defined
>> >>>
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
> "path_name" is a placeholder -- you're supposed to put in the exact
> string(s) you have been trying in the configuration file (wrap the
> string in quotes).
>
>>>> import os.path
>>>> os.path.isdir("e:\webdav")
> False
>>>> os.mkdir("e:\webdav")
>>>> os.path.isdir("e:\webdav")
> True
>>>> os.path.isdir("e:\webdav\\")
> Traceback (  File "<interactive input>", line 1
>    os.path.isdir("e:\webdav\")
>                              ^
> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
>>>> os.path.isdir("e:\webdav\\")
> True
>>>> os.path.isdir("e:\webdav/")
> True
>>>> os.path.isdir("e:/webdav/")
> True
>>>> os.path.isdir("e:/webdav")
> True
>>>> os.rmdir("e:/webdav")
>>>> os.path.isdir("e:\webdav")
> False
>>>>
>
> Note that Python itself (and the C-runtime) doesn't care if the
> separator is \ or / or even mixed; it is just the Windows command line
> that uses \ for separator and / for options. (Python, however, uses \ as
> an escape and \" is treated first, hence the need for \\" to escape the
> \ itself)

Thanks, this is clear.

This is my Python shell:

Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on 
win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> import os.path
>>> os.path.isdir("d:\webdav")
True
>>>

So Python recognizes the directory d:\webdav

This is the command shell:

D:\Python27\WebDAV\PyWebDAV\DAVServer>server.py -n -c config.ini

INFO:pywebdav:Starting up PyWebDAV server <version 0.9.4-dev>
INFO:pywebdav:chunked_http_response feature ON
INFO:pywebdav:http_request_use_iterator feature OFF
INFO:pywebdav :http_response_use_iterator feature OFF
INFO:fshandler:Initialized with D:/Webdav-http://10.0.0.140:8081/
WARNING:pywebdav:Authentication disabled!
INFO:pywebdav:Serving data from D:/Webdav
Listening on 10.0.0.140 <8081>

(here I try to login the WebDAV server with the local IE browser)

INFO:fshandler :get_data: D:\Webdav not found
server - - [06/Sep/2011 21:05:35] - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; 
Windows N
T 5.1; Trident/4.0> - "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -
server - - [06/Sep/2011 21:05:35] - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; 
Windows N
T 5.1; Trident/4.0> - "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -

So - I'm a bit lost now. Thinking seriously that my webdav installation is 
at fault.

Fokke