webdav

A simple and standalone WebDAV server.

Install

For a manual install, please refer to the releases page and download the correct binary for your system. Alternatively, you can build or install it from source using the Go toolchain. You can either clone the repository and execute go build, or directly install it, using:

go install github.com/hacdias/webdav/v5@latest

Homebrew

If you have Homebrew available on your system, you can also install webdav using it:

brew install webdav

Docker

Docker images are provided on both GitHub's registry and Docker Hub. You can pull the images using one of the following two commands. Note that this commands pull the latest released version. You can use specific tags to pin specific versions, or use main for the development branch.

# GitHub Registry
docker pull ghcr.io/hacdias/webdav:latest

# Docker Hub
docker pull hacdias/webdav:latest

Usage

For usage information regarding the CLI, run webdav --help.

Container

To run the container, you can refer to the compose.yml file which provides a minimal setup. Additionally, you also need to create a configuration file, as explained below.

The equivalent Docker command to the aforementioned compose file would be as follows:

docker run \
  -p 6065:6065 \
  -v ./config.yml:/config.yml:ro \
  -v ./data:/data \
  ghcr.io/hacdias/webdav -c /config.yml

If you are using fail2ban, it would be helpful to add the parameters listed below. They will assist in analyzing the log.

--log-driver journald \
--name webdav \

Partial updates

This server supports partial file updates compatible with SabreDAV's PATCH extension. This is not an official WebDAV specification. Requests must use the application/x-sabredav-partialupdate content type, include Content-Length, and provide the target range in X-Update-Range.

Supported X-Update-Range values are:

• bytes=start-end
• bytes=start-
• bytes=-N
• append

For clients that use it, the server also supports partial PUT requests with Content-Range, for example Content-Range: bytes 6-8/*. This is an extra compatibility path and should be treated as a client/server agreement.

Configuration

The configuration can be provided as a YAML, JSON or TOML file. Below is an example of a YAML configuration file with all the options available, as well as what they mean.

address: 0.0.0.0
port: 6065

# TLS-related settings if you want to enable TLS directly.
tls: false
cert: cert.pem
key: key.pem

# Prefix to apply to the WebDAV path-ing. Default is '/'.
prefix: /

# Enable or disable debug logging. Default is 'false'.
debug: false

# Disable sniffing the files to detect their content type. Default is 'false'.
noSniff: false

# Whether the server runs behind a trusted proxy or not. When this is true,
# the header X-Forwarded-For will be used for logging the remote addresses
# of logging attempts (if available).
behindProxy: false

# The directory that will be able to be accessed by the users when connecting.
# This directory will be used by users unless they have their own 'directory' defined.
# By default it points to the working directory. In the case of the compose file above,
# that is /data.
directory: /data

# Alternatively, replace 'directory' with 'directories' to expose multiple
# directories as virtual root entries. This option is mutually exclusive with
# 'directory' in the same scope. Rules should include the virtual mount name,
# such as /media/public/access/.
# directories:
#   - media: /data/media
#   - /data/archive
#   - name: backups
#     path: /data/backups

# The default permissions for users. This is a case insensitive option. Possible
# permissions: C (Create), R (Read), U (Update), D (Delete). You can combine multiple
# permissions. For example, to allow to read and create, set "RC". Default is "R".
permissions: R

# The default permissions rules for users. Default is none. Rules are applied
# from last to first, that is, the first rule that matches the request, starting
# from the end, will be applied to the request. Rule paths are always relative to
# the user's directory.
rules: []

# The behavior of redefining the rules for users. It can be:
# - overwrite: when a user has rules defined, these will overwrite any global
#   rules already defined. That is, the global rules are not applicable to the
#   user.
# - append: when a user has rules defined, these will be appended to the global
#   rules already defined. That is, for this user, their own specific rules will
#   be checked first, and then the global rules.
# Default is 'overwrite'.
rulesBehavior: overwrite

# Logging configuration
log:
  # Logging format ('console', 'json'). Default is 'console'.
  format: console
  # Enable or disable colors. Default is 'true'. Only applied if format is 'console'.
  colors: true
  # Logging outputs. You can have more than one output. Default is only 'stderr'.
  outputs:
    - stderr

# CORS configuration
cors:
  # Whether or not CORS configuration should be applied. Default is 'false'.
  enabled: true
  credentials: true
  # The following are the default CORS settings when it is enabled.
  allowed_hosts:
    - '*'
  allowed_headers:
    - Authorization
    - Content-Type
    - Content-Range
    - Depth
    - Destination
    - If
    - Lock-Token
    - Overwrite
    - TimeOut
    - Translate
    - X-Update-Range
  allowed_methods:
    - COPY
    - DELETE
    - GET
    - HEAD
    - LOCK
    - UNLOCK
    - MKCOL
    - MOVE
    - OPTIONS
    - PATCH
    - POST
    - PROPFIND
    - PROPPATCH
    - PUT
  exposed_headers: []

# You define here the list of users.
# Basic authentication is automatically be configured when users are detected 
# below, else there will be no authentication.
# Customize to your needs and don't forget to comment out the users you don't need.
users:
  # Example 'admin' user with plaintext password.
  - username: admin
    password: admin

  # Example 'john' user with bcrypt encrypted password, with custom directory.
  # Tip: you can generate a bcrypt-encrypted password by using the 'webdav bcrypt'
  # command lint utility, or htpasswd on Linux.
  - username: john
    password: "{bcrypt}$2y$10$zEP6oofmXFeHaeMfBNLnP.DO8m.H.Mwhd24/TOX2MWLxAExXi4qgi"
    directory: /data/john
  # Example user whose details will be picked up from the environment.
  - username: "{env}ENV_USERNAME"
    password: "{env}ENV_PASSWORD"
  # Example user with advanced control over his permissions
  - username: basic
    password: basic
    permissions: CRUD # Override default permissions.
    rules:
      # With this rule, the user CANNOT access {user directory}/some/files.
      - path: /some/file
        permissions: none
      # With this rule, the user CAN create, read, update and delete within
      # {user directory}/public/access.
      - path: /public/access/
        permissions: CRUD
      # With this rule, the user CAN read and update all files ending with .js.
      # It uses a regular expression.
      - regex: "^.+.js$"
        permissions: RU
  # Example user for android SeedVault backuping
  - username: android
    password: "{bcrypt}$2y$10$zEP6oofmXFeHaeMfBNLnP.DO8m.H.Mwhd24/TOX2MWLxAExXi4qgi"
    directory: /data/android
    permissions: CRUD

# If you're delegating the authentication to a different service, you can proxy
# the username using basic authentication, and then disable webdav's password
# check using the option:
# noPassword: true

CORS

The allowed_* properties are optional, the default value for each of them will be *. exposed_headers is optional as well, but is not set if not defined. Setting credentials to true will allow you to:

1. Use withCredentials = true in javascript.
2. Use the username:password@host syntax.

Caveats

Reverse Proxy Service

When using a reverse proxy implementation, like Caddy, Nginx, or Apache, note that you need to forward the correct headers in order to avoid 502 errors.

Nginx Configuration Example

location / {
  proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
  proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
  proxy_set_header REMOTE-HOST $remote_addr;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
  proxy_set_header Host $host;
  proxy_redirect off;

  # Ensure COPY and MOVE commands work. Change https://example.com to the
  # correct address where the WebDAV server will be deployed at.
  set $dest $http_destination;
  if ($http_destination ~ "^https://example.com(?<path>(.+))") {
    set $dest /$path;
  }
  proxy_set_header Destination $dest;
}

Caddy Configuration Example

example.com {
    tls internal # for local development
    # tls name@email.com # so that Caddy gets certs for you via Letsencrypt

    # Rewrites destination to remove host and include only the path e.g. /test.txt
    @hasDest header_regexp dest ^https?://[^/]+(.*)$
    header @hasDest Destination {re.dest.1}

    # if running on the same network in docker you can just point to the service name e.g. webdav:6065
    reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:6065 {
        header_up X-Real-IP {remote_host}
        header_up REMOTE-HOST {remote_host}
    }
}

Examples

Systemd

Example configuration of a systemd service:

[Unit]
Description=WebDAV
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
ExecStart=/usr/bin/webdav --config /opt/webdav.yml
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Fail2Ban Setup

To add security against brute-force attacks in your WebDAV server, you can configure Fail2Ban to ban IP addresses after a set number of failed login attempts.

Filter Configuration

Create a new filter rule under filter.d/webdav.conf:

[INCLUDES]
before = common.conf

[Definition]
# Failregex to match "invalid password" and extract remote_address only
failregex = ^.*invalid password\s*\{.*"remote_address":\s*"<HOST>:\d+"\s*\}
            ^.*invalid username\s*\{.*"remote_address":\s*"<HOST>:\d+"\s*\}

ignoreregex =

This configuration will capture invalid login attempts and extract the IP address to ban.

Jail Configuration

In jail.d/webdav.conf, define the jail that monitors your WebDAV log for failed login attempts:

[webdav]

enabled = true
port = [your_port]
filter = webdav
logpath = [your_log_path]
banaction = iptables-allports
ignoreself = false

• Replace [your_port] with the port your WebDAV server is running on.
• Replace [your_log_path] with the path to your WebDAV log file.

If you use it with Docker and --log-driver journald, replace logpath with journalmatch = CONTAINER_NAME=[your_container_name]

Final Steps

1. Restart Fail2Ban to apply these configurations:

   sudo systemctl restart fail2ban
   

2. Verify that Fail2Ban is running and monitoring your WebDAV logs:

   sudo fail2ban-client status webdav
   

With this setup, Fail2Ban will automatically block IP addresses that exceed the allowed number of failed login attempts.

Contributing

Feel free to open an issue or a pull request.

License

MIT License © Henrique Dias