Yes, we've got a bunch of people here using IE5x to update our sites via webDAV. You just open IE and click File->Open->(O)pen as web folder and then put in the URL. You then see the site much as you would if Indexing were somehow left enabled and can then drag-n-drop your files and folders.
You'll need to have dav_module loaded in your webserver conf file, and then have a "DAV On" line in your <Directory> directive. There are other options as well. The documentation for a first-time DAV newbie is pretty dismal.. maybe the latest versions of the various Apache books (I tend to gravitated towards O'Reilly & Assoc...) have better info.
DAV is really great for this as it keeps users in their comfort zone of a GUI-based OS (you wouldn't believe the comical horror of some pure Windoze users at a command-line session...).
At 01:01 PM 3/14/2001 +0000, Mike Moran wrote:
Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
>
> > you can change user's shell to /dev/null
>
> Well... it doesn't look like I can log in via telnet or FTP without
> a valid login shell. I tried that with various entries other than
> /dev/null ...
If all that is needed is web page upload access, you could try
installing WebDAV[1] and then disabling ftp entirely. Passwords for
WebDAV are those used by apache for restricting access.
You'd have to get them to use a WebDAV client though. I use "sitecopy"
on unix and "Goliath" on MacOS. Dunno about Windows. Hmm, I think the
"web folders" feature of Windows is actually just WebDAV.
[1]: http://www.webdav.org
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