WordPress WebDAV Microsoft Word 2010 = Not working

Hi all,

My mind is blown with this one. I’ve been tasked by my manager to get WordPress working with Microsoft Word 2010. These are the things I’ve done and tried:

– I’ve enabled the XMLRPC publishing options in Settings > Writing
– I’ve added configuration I believe to be correct to WordPress’ VHost in Apache
– I’ve chowned the webroot as owned by the Apache user
– I’ve ensured SELinux is disabled
– I’ve disabled IPTables
– After discovering RewriteRule causes WebDAV to freak out, I’ve put in another rule that forbids rewriting of the “DavWWWRoot” folder

I’ve tried using BitKinex to connect, and while it fetches the file lists ok, it goes really weird when I try to edit a file in there.

I’m using Litmus to troubleshoot and I’m getting this result:

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The server error log gives me this after running litmus:

[Thu Mar 29 12:16:13 2012] [error] [client 172.16.10.157] (2)No such file or directory: Cannot create collection; intermediate collection does not exist.  [409, #0]
[Thu Mar 29 12:16:13 2012] [error] [client 172.16.10.157] Could not fetch resource information.  [400, #0]
[Thu Mar 29 12:16:13 2012] [error] [client 172.16.10.157] (2)No such file or directory: The URL contains extraneous path components. The resource could not be identified.  [400, #0]
[Thu Mar 29 12:16:13 2012] [error] [client 172.16.10.157] buggy client used un-escaped hash in Request-URI
[Thu Mar 29 12:16:13 2012] [error] [client 172.16.10.157] (2)No such file or directory: Cannot create collection; intermediate collection does not exist.  [409, #0]
[Thu Mar 29 12:16:13 2012] [error] [client 172.16.10.157] Could not get next bucket brigade  [500, #0]
[Thu Mar 29 12:16:13 2012] [error] [client 172.16.10.157] Could not get next bucket brigade  [500, #0]
[Thu Mar 29 12:16:13 2012] [error] [client 172.16.10.157] Could not get next bucket brigade  [500, #0]
[Thu Mar 29 12:16:13 2012] [error] [client 172.16.10.157] Could not get next bucket brigade  [500, #0]

…and the VHost configuration looks like this:

Alias /DavWWWRoot "/var/www/oc-live/html/"

<Location /DavWWWRoot>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
order allow,deny
allow from all
AuthName "WebDAV"
AuthType Basic
DAV On
##require valid-user

</Location>

…and all Word gives me is “Word cannot register your account” without any error number or other additional information.

While this isn’t a direct problem with WordPress (which is working lovely!) getting this particular feature working is proving a challenge. There isn’t a fat lot of documentation on this at all, and I am only trying to get it working in a very basic configuration before I try to get Apache running MySQL queries to only allow access to wordpress administrators and editors and lock it down enough to go live.

Anyone else tried this? If so, I’d love to know what you did!

Thanks in advance.