nginx
June 21, 2020
So my long march away from Apache has been coming to an end, and I am finally
migrating some of the more esoteric parts of my Apache setup to nginx. I have a
side domain that I use to share files with some friends and, for ease of use, I
have configured it with WebDAV so that they can simply mount it using Finder or
Explorer, just like a shared drive.
The problem? nginx’s WebDAV support … sucks.
First, the ngx_http_dav_module module is not included in most distributions
from the package managers. Even the ones that are, it’s usually pretty out of
date. And, perhaps worst of all, it is a partial implementation of WebDAV. It
doesn’t support some of the things (PROPFIND, OPTIONS, LOCK, and
UNLOCK) that are needed to work with modern clients.
So what can we do?
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