KaraDAV is a simple and lightweight WebDAV server, allowing to easily set up a file sharing server compatible with WebDAV and NextCloud clients.
It has no dependencies and good performance.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- User-friendly directory listings for file browsing with a web browser, using the project’s WebDAV Manager.js client:
- Upload directly from browser, using paste or drag and drop.
- Rename.
- Delete.
- Create and edit text files.
- Create directories.
- Markdown live preview.
- Preview of images, text, Markdown and PDF.
- Editing of Office files using Collabora or OnlyOffice.
- Download all files from a directory.
- WebDAV class 1, 2, 3 support, support for Etags.
- No database server is required (SQLite3 is used).
- Multiple user accounts.
- Support for per-user quota.
- Share files using WebDAV: delete, create, update, mkdir, get, list.
- Compatible with WebDAV clients.
- Support for HTTP ranges (partial download of files).
- Support for RFC 3230 to get the MD5 digest hash of a file (to check integrity) on HEAD requests (only MD5 is supported so far).
- Support for setting the file modification time using PROPPATCH and Win32LastModifiedTime or {DAV:}lastmodified properties.
- Support for Content-MD5 with PUT requests, see dCache documentation for details.
- Support for some of the Microsoft proprietary properties.
- Passes most of the Litmus compliance tests.
- Supports WOPI, for editing and viewing of documents using OnlyOffice, Collabora Online or MS Office.
- Support for LDAP.
- Trashbin: files are moved to a .trash folder before being deleted completely.
Website: github.com/kd2org/karadav
Support:
Developer: KD2
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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