---
name: "davserver3"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python3-webdav"
version: "0.11.0-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/davserver3"
---

# davserver3(1)

## NAME

davserver -WebDAV server implementation in Python 3

## SYNOPSIS

**davserver** *OPTIONS*

## DESCRIPTION

 PyWebDAV3 is a WebDAV server implementation in Python 3. It's aim is to provide a simple interface to webdav services to any application which needs it. It can be run as a daemon.

## OPTIONS

- \-c, --config

  Specify a file where configuration is specified. In this file you can specify options for a running server. For an example look at the config.ini in this directory.

- \-D, --directory

  Directory where to serve data from. The user that runs this server must have permissions on that directory. NEVER run as root! Default directory is /tmp

- \-H, --host

  Host where to listen on (default: localhost).

- \-P, --port

  Port to bind server to (default: 8008).

- \-u, --user

  Username for authentication.

- \-p, --password

  Password for given user.

- \-n, --noauth

  Pass parameter if server should not ask for authentication. This means that every user has access.

- \-m, --mysql

  Pass this parameter if you want MySQL based authentication. If you want to use MySQL then the usage of a configuration file is mandatory.

- \-J, --lockemu

  Activate experimental LOCK and UNLOCK mode (WebDAV Version 2). Currently know to work but needs more tests. Default is ON.

- \-M, --nomime

  Deactivate mimetype sniffing. Sniffing is based on magic numbers detection but can be slow under heavy load. If you are experiencing speed problems try to use this parameter.

- \-i, --icounter

  If you want to run multiple instances then you have to give each instance it own number so that logfiles and such can be identified. Default is 0.

- \-d, --daemon *ACTION*

  Make server act like a daemon. That means that it is going to background mode. All messages are redirected to logfiles (default: /tmp/pydav.log and /tmp/pydav.err). You need to pass one of the following actions to this parameter, 'start' to start the daemon, 'stop' to stop the daemon, 'restart' to restart the server, or, 'status' to return the status of the server.

- \-v, --verbose

  Be verbose.

- \-h, --help

  Show this screen.

## HOMEPAGE

More information about davserver and the PyWebDAV3 project can be found at \<*https://github.com/andrewleech/PyWebDAV3*\>.

## AUTHOR

PyWebDAV3 was written by Simon Pamies \<*s.pamies@banality.de*\>, Christian Scholz \<*ruebe@aachen.heimat.de*\>, Vince Spicer \<*vince@vince.ca*\> and Andrew Leech \<*andrew@alelec.net*\>. L

This manual page was written by Daniel Baumann \<*daniel@debian.org*\> and Mathias Behrle \<*mbehrle@debian.org*\> .