Web Dav help
Google drive has limited space and has serious ethical and GDPR issues. Our lovely server providers krystal have a solution.
Introduction
Web dav is a system that allows you to secularly upload files to our server where our emails and website is stored. It has the benifits:
no space limit
no space limit, so no issues of storing lots of files
secure user authentication
built in support in Mac, and some built in support in windows
TLDR;
If you have a client in mind the general details are:
Server Address: thebristolcable.org Port: 2078 Username: <your name here>@thebristolcable.org Password: Your Web Disk account password. SSL Enabled: Enabled
Apple Operating system
To connect to Appleยฎ operating systems using the built in system (for example, macOSยฎ X or Sierra), perform the following steps:
Open Appleโs Finder application.
From the Go menu, select Connect to Server.
Enter the Web Disk serverโs URL in the Server Address text box (
https://thebristolcable.org:2078
).Click Connect.
Enter your Web Disk accountโs username and password.
Click Connect.
Cyberduck
Cyberduck is useful for uploading and downloading a few files, it's easy to use, works on both mac and windows and is open source.
Instructions
You can download it from: https://cyberduck.io/download/
Once downloaded extract the program if you are using a mac or open the installer and install the program
Open cyber duck and click open connection
select webdav https in the drop down
Enter in
https://thebristolcable.org
and port2078
as the serveras the user name enter: <yournamehere>@c077c26902e2ebcb097c462eb-16780.sites.k-hosting.co.uk
enter your password so it looks like the screen shot below:
Once you click connect you have an interface like any other folder in which you can drag and drop in files or out files and folders
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