How do you use webDav?

[ItsCubeTime]

Hi, could someone provide me with a direct example on how to connect using webDav?

I tried with the following config:

[global]
    a:lemonade:icecream
    dav-rt
    dav-auth

[/]             
  c:\          
  accs:         
    rwmd: lemonade

Which I run like so on my remote:

> c:/Users/Administrator/Desktop/programs/copypartyFileServer/copyparty.exe -c c:/Users/Administrator/Desktop/programs/copypartyFileServer/config.txt
▒▌ this 64-bit copyparty.exe is compatible with Windows 8 and later.
▒▌ No security issues were known to affect this EXE at build time,
▒▌ however that may have changed since then.
▒▌ 
▒▌ if possible, for performance and security reasons, please use this instead:
▒▌ https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/latest/download/copyparty-sfx.py
▒▌ 

copyparty v1.20.1 "sftp is fine too" (2026-01-09)
  CPython v3.13.11 on Windows64 10.0.20348 [MSC v.1944 64 bit (AMD64)]
   sqlite 3.50.4*1 | jinja 3.1.6 | pyftpd 1.5.10 | tftp 0.4.0 | miko (None)

pybin: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python314\python.exe
2026-01-15
19:27:57.234 root                  opening sessions-db C:/Users/Administrator/AppData/Roaming/copyparty\sessions.db
19:27:57.243 auth                  loaded 1 config files:
└C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\programs\copypartyFileServer\config.txt
19:27:57.246 auth                  volumes and permissions:

"/"  C:\
|    read:  lemonade
|   write:  lemonade
|    move:  lemonade
|  delete:  lemonade
|    dots:  --none--
|     get:  --none--
|   upGet:  --none--
|    html:  --none--
|  uadmin:  --none--

19:27:57.248 auth                  hint: enable searching and upload-undo with argument -e2dsa
19:27:57.248 auth                  hint: enable upload deduplication with --dedup (but see readme for consequences)
19:27:57.248 auth                  you are sharing a system directory: C:\

19:27:57.250 root                  max clients: 486
19:27:57.259 tcpsrv                available @  http://127.0.0.1:3923/  (1-Software Loopback Interface 1)
19:27:57.260 tcpsrv                available @  http://[::1]:3923/  (1-Software Loopback Interface 1)
19:27:57.260 tcpsrv                available @  REDACTED:3923/  (4-Red Hat VirtIO Ethernet Adapter)
19:27:57.261 tcpsrv                available @  REDACTED:3923/  (4-Red Hat VirtIO Ethernet Adapter, external)

19:27:57.266 optional-dependencies OK: sqlite, pillow, pillow-webp, mutagen, NG: vips, ffmpeg, ffprobe, argon2, pyzmq, pillow-heif, pillow-avif, rawpy, psutil, see --deps (this is fine btw)
19:27:57.266 thumb                 decoder preference: pil
19:27:57.270 thumb                 cannot create audio/video thumbnails because some of the required programs are not available: FFmpeg, FFprobe
19:27:57.271 thumb                 setting --no-acode because either FFmpeg or FFprobe is not available
19:27:57.271 thumb                 download FFmpeg to fix it: https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-full.7z
19:27:57.272 thumb                 cln ok; rm 0 dirs
19:27:57.523 tcpsrv                listening @ [::]:3923  f660 p3200
19:27:57.524 tcpsrv                listening @ 0.0.0.0:3923  f656 p3200
19:27:57.525 hsrv                  subscribed @ [::]:3923  f660 p3200
19:27:57.526 root                  workers OK

19:27:57.526 hsrv                  subscribed @ 0.0.0.0:3923  f656 p3200
19:27:57.527 cert                  creating new ca ...
19:27:57.529 up2k                  / casechk:y fsnt:lin
19:27:57.532 cert                  could not create TLS certificates: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
19:27:57.533 cert                  install cfssl if you want to fix this; https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl/releases/latest  (cfssl, cfssljson, cfssl-certinfo)
19:27:57.606 cert                  using default TLS certificate; https will be insecure: C:/Users/Administrator/AppData/Roaming/copyparty\cert.pem
19:27:57.665 up2k                  loaded snap C:\.hist\up2k.snap |742| (742)
19:27:57.665 up2k                  0 volumes in 0.14 sec

and then setting up rclone on my local PC like so:

[LemonadeIcecream]
type = webdav
url = 202.110.117.906 (not the actual IP)
vendor = other
user = lemonade
pass = *** ENCRYPTED *** (which I of course set to icecream during setup)

And then:

rclone mount LemonadeIcecream W:
2026/01/16 04:31:59 ERROR : Local file system at //?/C:/Users/olliv/Desktop/Olliver/programs/rclone-v1.49.3-windows-amd64/LemonadeIcecream: Statfs failed: failed to read disk usage: The system cannot find the path specified.
The service rclone has been started.

But I see no connection actually reaching the server. Hosting a simple webserver on the same device works fine - and Ive even tried disabling the firewall entirely with all ports exposed to wan (no effect). I have also tried specifying a port to copyparty like p:80 & p:443 under [global] with no effect

[9001]

this is not the issue, but its an issue:

[global]
    a:lemonade:icecream

this should be:

[accounts]
  lemonade: icecream

as for the WebDAV part, have you seen the "connect" page? it is a button on the login page; https://a.ocv.me/?hc note that you should use your own connect-page and not the one on my server, since it is autogenerated with appropriate values for your server

specifically i think you gave rclone the wrong port

[ItsCubeTime]

rclone didnt let me choose a port, oddly