Question : Server Returns 404 Error when publishing through WebDAV

I am using Expression Web 3 and I am trying to synchronize the website and I keep getting a "Permission Denied" error and when I click details I get this:

404 - File or directory not found.
        Server Error   404 - File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.    

I click refresh on the target website to make sure the file exists and it does exist.

I am logged in as administrator and yet I get the error. I logged in to the web server and added the user administrator and gave it full control and it made no difference.

It is a Windows Server 2008 machine running IIS 7, WebDAV is configured on the website but nothing in the WebDAV settings can give me a clue to what is wrong, I am stumped and for now I am having to remote desktop to the machine sharing my local resources in order to "publish" the website.

Anyone have any other suggestions I could try?

Answer : Server Returns 404 Error when publishing through WebDAV

If you enable "Use most restricted rules Policy" in Settings/filtering, then the most restrictive rules are applied. This is why when an IP address is having all blocked, and a user who is allowed logs in, the block overrides allow.

I have 2 solutions for your case and it is up to you to decide:

1- Remove the tick mark for "Use most restricted rules policy"
2- Use Groups and not username to define policies
3- Apply the block all to the IP.
4- Allow internet to the admin user (and NOT GROUP).
In this case, only policies applied to users will be applied, otherwise all is blocked.
This is because the filtering order in Websense (without the most restrictive rule applied) is as follows:
a- Policy assigned to the user.
b- Policy assigned to the IP address (computer or network) of the machine being used.
c- Policies assigned to groups the user belongs to.
d- Policies assigned to the user's domain.
e- The Default policy.

Option 2 is to give the Admin user "Password override" option.

Hope that helps.

Ehab