WebDAV Servers
- Last Updated: April 15, 2026
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- MarkLogic Server
- Version 12.0
- Documentation
This section describes how to use the Admin Interface to create and configure WebDAV servers.
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To create and configure WebDAV servers programmatically, see Creating and Configuring App Servers in the Scripting Administrative Tasks Guide.
WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a protocol that extends the HTTP protocol to provide the ability to write documents through these HTTP extensions. You need a WebDAV client to write documents, but you can still read them through HTTP (through a web browser, for example). For information about WebDAV clients supported in MarkLogic Server, see WebDAV Clients. For general information about WebDAV and the WebDAV protocol, see http://webdav.org.
A WebDAV server in MarkLogic Server is similar to an HTTP server with these important differences:
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WebDAV servers cannot execute XQuery code.
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WebDAV servers support the WebDAV protocol to allow WebDAV clients to have read and write access (depending on the security configuration) to a database.
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A WebDAV server only accesses documents and directories in a database; it does not access the file system directly.