Davis – CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV server

Davis is a DAV server and administration frontend built around sabre/dav, Symfony and Bootstrap. It provides a more complete deployment around the underlying DAV framework, including account and resource administration through a browser.

The software occupies useful ground between directly integrating sabre/dav into an application and deploying a full collaboration suite. Calendar, contacts and file services can be enabled as required while users continue to access their information with standard DAV clients.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• The administration dashboard provides user management together with calendar creation, calendar sharing and address-book creation.
• CalDAV and CardDAV services handle calendars and contacts, while WebDAV file storage can be enabled separately when it is required.
• Calendar scheduling supports invitations and related mail notifications when an outgoing mail service has been configured.
• Server-side calendar subscriptions allow remote calendars to be followed through the DAV service rather than requiring each client to fetch them independently.
• Calendars can be published through public links for information that needs to be readable without a normal authenticated DAV account.
• An automatically generated birthday calendar reflects birth dates stored in contacts and updates as the underlying address-book data changes.
• Authentication can use Davis’s Basic authentication mechanism or integrate with IMAP and LDAP services through the available providers.
• Database storage can use MySQL or MariaDB, with PostgreSQL and SQLite also supported by the application.
• An API provides programmatic operations for user and calendar management, allowing administrative workflows to be connected to other systems.
• Built-in handling of well-known CalDAV and CardDAV discovery paths directs compatible clients to the correct DAV endpoint, including installations served from a subdirectory.

Website: github.com/tchapi/davis
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Developer: tchapi and contributors
License: MIT License

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