Nginx WebDAV Service

0x01 Installation

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heiher/nginx
cd nginx
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heiher/nginx-dav-ext-module

./auto/configure --prefix=/opt/nginx \
    --with-compat \
    --with-file-aio \
    --with-http_addition_module \
    --with-http_auth_request_module \
    --with-http_dav_module \
    --with-http_degradation_module \
    --with-http_flv_module \
    --with-http_geoip_module \
    --with-http_gunzip_module \
    --with-http_gzip_static_module \
    --with-http_mp4_module \
    --with-http_realip_module \
    --with-http_secure_link_module \
    --with-http_slice_module \
    --with-http_ssl_module \
    --with-http_stub_status_module \
    --with-http_sub_module \
    --with-http_v2_module \
    --with-pcre-jit \
    --with-threads \
    --add-module=nginx-dav-ext-module

make
sudo make install

0x02 Configuration
Main: /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf:

#user  nobody;
worker_processes  1;

#error_log  logs/error.log;
#error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
#error_log  logs/error.log  info;

#pid        logs/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
    #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
    #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    #access_log  logs/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;
    
    dav_ext_lock_zone zone=foo:10m;

    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;

        #charset koi8-r;

        #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;

        location / {
            root   html;

            auth_basic Restricted;
            auth_basic_user_file htpasswd;

            dav_methods PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE;
            dav_ext_methods PROPFIND PROPPATCH OPTIONS LOCK UNLOCK;
            dav_ext_lock zone=foo;
            dav_access user:rw group:rw all:r;

            client_max_body_size 0;
            create_full_put_path on;
        }

        # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
        # concurs with nginx's one
        #
        #location ~ /\.ht {
        #    deny  all;
        #}
    }

}

Auth: /opt/nginx/conf/htpasswd:

htpasswd -b -c /opt/nginx/conf/htpasswd YOUR_USERNAME YOUR_PASSWORD

Start, Stop and Reload:

# Start
sudo /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx

# Stop
sudo /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx -s stop

# Reload
sudo /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx -s reload

0x03 Clients
Nautils

Windows 10
Fix authentication and file size limits, open regedit and modify:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters\
BasicAuthLevel = 2
FileSizeLimitInBytes = 0xffffffff

Over!