Configuration

Base settings

First of all, you need set the your WebDAV server url (WEBDAV_URL setting) and public read-only public url of this if there (WEBDAV_PUBLIC_URL setting)

# settings.py

WEBDAV_URL = "https://my-internal-webdav-server.example.com"
WEBDAV_PUBLIC_URL = "http://my-awesome-public-webdav-server.example.com"

If you want use HTTP Basic authorization to WebDAV access, you can specify your credentials like that:

WEBDAV_URL = 'http://johndoe:secret@my-internal-webdav-server.example.com'

Second, set the django_webdav_storage.storage.WebDavStorage storage class as default storage class:

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'django_webdav_storage.storage.WebDavStorage'

If your webdav backend can’t recursively create path, set the WEBDAV_RECURSIVE_MKCOL variable to True (please pay attention: nginx can do this):

WEBDAV_RECURSIVE_MKCOL = True    # *NOT* required for nginx!

Attention

The WEBDAV_RECURSIVE_MKCOL setting must be False if you use nginx as WebDAV service since nginx allows you automatically create full path to uloaded file when create_full_put_path is on.

List support in nginx

If you use nginx as WebDAV server and want to enable storage directory listing, set the WEBDAV_LISTING_BACKEND option to:

WEBDAV_LISTING_BACKEND = 'django_webdav_storage.listing.nginx_autoindex'

Autoindex feature must be enabled in your nginx configuration for application servers (see example below). Be careful! Allowing autoindex for any user may lead to security and performance issues.

Also, you may specify path to other function with the following interface:

def listdir(storage_object, path_string):
    return dirs_list, files_list