v1.1.1/docs/src/getting-started.md

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title: 'Getting started'
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### Test

After successful installation you can test dav with your WebDAV server.

	dav list http://example.com/webdav/

This lists all child resources of the specified collection. If you are unfamiliar to WebDAV terminology this means basically listing all files in a directory, similar to the ls unix tool. Actually you can also write `dav ls` instead of `dav list` and there is also an `-l` option similarly to the unix tool `ls`.

### Create a repository

All dav commands are expecting an url argument, but it may be a bit cumbersome to type a full url every time. But you can configure a repository in the dav configuration file ($HOME/.dav/config.xml) with the servers url, optional authentication information and other options. Afterwards you can access a webdav server just with the repository name and an optional path.

So when you have created a repository with the name myserv and the url http://example.com/webdav/, you can just type

	dav list myserv

You can add a path to the repository name to access an other url

	dav list myserv/mycollection/

This lists the content of http://example.com/webdav/mycollection/

The easiest way to create a repository is with the add-repository command. This is a simple configuration assistant.

	$ dav add-repository
	Each repository must have an unique name.
	name: myserv

	Specify the repository base url.
	url: http://example.com/webdav/

	User for HTTP authentication.
	user (optional): myuser
	password (optional): 


	Added repository: myserv (http://example.com/webdav/)

You can also configure the config.xml yourself, check out [the config.xml spec][1].

[1]: ./configuration.html