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 Apple® operating systems using the built in system (for example, macOS® X or Sierra), perform the following steps:

  1. Open Apple’s Finder application.

  2. From the Go menu, select Connect to Server.

  3. Enter the Web Disk server’s URL in the Server Address text box ( https://thebristolcable.org:2078).

  4. Click Connect.

  5. Enter your Web Disk account’s username and password.

  6. 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

  1. You can download it from: https://cyberduck.io/download/

  2. Once downloaded extract the program if you are using a mac or open the installer and install the program

  3. Open cyber duck and click open connection

  4. select webdav https in the drop down

  5. Enter in https://thebristolcable.org and port 2078 as the server

  6. as the user name enter: <yournamehere>@c077c26902e2ebcb097c462eb-16780.sites.k-hosting.co.uk

  7. 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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