title | description | versionIntroduced |
---|---|---|
WebDAV |
Rclone docs for WebDAV |
v1.39 |
Paths are specified as remote:path
Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory
.
To configure the WebDAV remote you will need to have a URL for it, and a username and password. If you know what kind of system you are connecting to then rclone can enable extra features.
Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote
. First run:
rclone config
This will guide you through an interactive setup process:
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / WebDAV
\ "webdav"
[snip]
Storage> webdav
URL of http host to connect to
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
1 / Connect to example.com
\ "https://example.com"
url> https://example.com/remote.php/webdav/
Name of the WebDAV site/service/software you are using
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
1 / Fastmail Files
\ (fastmail)
2 / Nextcloud
\ (nextcloud)
3 / Owncloud
\ (owncloud)
4 / Sharepoint Online, authenticated by Microsoft account
\ (sharepoint)
5 / Sharepoint with NTLM authentication, usually self-hosted or on-premises
\ (sharepoint-ntlm)
6 / rclone WebDAV server to serve a remote over HTTP via the WebDAV protocol
\ (rclone)
7 / Other site/service or software
\ (other)
vendor> 2
User name
user> user
Password.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Bearer token instead of user/pass (e.g. a Macaroon)
bearer_token>
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: webdav
- url: https://example.com/remote.php/webdav/
- vendor: nextcloud
- user: user
- pass: *** ENCRYPTED ***
- bearer_token:
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
Once configured you can then use rclone
like this,
List directories in top level of your WebDAV
rclone lsd remote:
List all the files in your WebDAV
rclone ls remote:
To copy a local directory to an WebDAV directory called backup
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
Plain WebDAV does not support modified times. However when used with Fastmail Files, Owncloud or Nextcloud rclone will support modified times.
Likewise plain WebDAV does not support hashes, however when used with Fastmail Files, Owncloud or Nextcloud rclone will support SHA1 and MD5 hashes. Depending on the exact version of Owncloud or Nextcloud hashes may appear on all objects, or only on objects which had a hash uploaded with them.
{{< rem autogenerated options start" - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/webdav/webdav.go then run make backenddocs" >}}
Here are the Standard options specific to webdav (WebDAV).
URL of http host to connect to.
E.g. https://example.com.
Properties:
- Config: url
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_URL
- Type: string
- Required: true
Name of the WebDAV site/service/software you are using.
Properties:
- Config: vendor
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_VENDOR
- Type: string
- Required: false
- Examples:
- "fastmail"
- Fastmail Files
- "nextcloud"
- Nextcloud
- "owncloud"
- Owncloud
- "sharepoint"
- Sharepoint Online, authenticated by Microsoft account
- "sharepoint-ntlm"
- Sharepoint with NTLM authentication, usually self-hosted or on-premises
- "rclone"
- rclone WebDAV server to serve a remote over HTTP via the WebDAV protocol
- "other"
- Other site/service or software
- "fastmail"
User name.
In case NTLM authentication is used, the username should be in the format 'Domain\User'.
Properties:
- Config: user
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_USER
- Type: string
- Required: false
Password.
NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.
Properties:
- Config: pass
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_PASS
- Type: string
- Required: false
Bearer token instead of user/pass (e.g. a Macaroon).
Properties:
- Config: bearer_token
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_BEARER_TOKEN
- Type: string
- Required: false
Here are the Advanced options specific to webdav (WebDAV).
Command to run to get a bearer token.
Properties:
- Config: bearer_token_command
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_BEARER_TOKEN_COMMAND
- Type: string
- Required: false
The encoding for the backend.
See the encoding section in the overview for more info.
Default encoding is Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Hash,Percent,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftTilde,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8 for sharepoint-ntlm or identity otherwise.
Properties:
- Config: encoding
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_ENCODING
- Type: string
- Required: false
Set HTTP headers for all transactions.
Use this to set additional HTTP headers for all transactions
The input format is comma separated list of key,value pairs. Standard CSV encoding may be used.
For example, to set a Cookie use 'Cookie,name=value', or '"Cookie","name=value"'.
You can set multiple headers, e.g. '"Cookie","name=value","Authorization","xxx"'.
Properties:
- Config: headers
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_HEADERS
- Type: CommaSepList
- Default:
Minimum time to sleep between API calls.
Properties:
- Config: pacer_min_sleep
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_PACER_MIN_SLEEP
- Type: Duration
- Default: 10ms
Nextcloud upload chunk size.
We recommend configuring your NextCloud instance to increase the max chunk size to 1 GB for better upload performances. See https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_files/big_file_upload_configuration.html#adjust-chunk-size-on-nextcloud-side
Set to 0 to disable chunked uploading.
Properties:
- Config: nextcloud_chunk_size
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_NEXTCLOUD_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type: SizeSuffix
- Default: 10Mi
Exclude ownCloud shares
Properties:
- Config: owncloud_exclude_shares
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_OWNCLOUD_EXCLUDE_SHARES
- Type: bool
- Default: false
Exclude ownCloud mounted storages
Properties:
- Config: owncloud_exclude_mounts
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_OWNCLOUD_EXCLUDE_MOUNTS
- Type: bool
- Default: false
Path to a unix domain socket to dial to, instead of opening a TCP connection directly
Properties:
- Config: unix_socket
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_UNIX_SOCKET
- Type: string
- Required: false
Description of the remote.
Properties:
- Config: description
- Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_DESCRIPTION
- Type: string
- Required: false
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See below for notes on specific providers.
Use https://webdav.fastmail.com/
or a subdirectory as the URL,
and your Fastmail email username@domain.tld
as the username.
Follow this documentation
to create an app password with access to Files (WebDAV)
and use
this as the password.
Fastmail supports modified times using the X-OC-Mtime
header.
Click on the settings cog in the bottom right of the page and this
will show the WebDAV URL that rclone needs in the config step. It
will look something like https://example.com/remote.php/webdav/
.
Owncloud supports modified times using the X-OC-Mtime
header.
This is configured in an identical way to Owncloud. Note that
Nextcloud initially did not support streaming of files (rcat
) whereas
Owncloud did, but this seems to be fixed as of 2020-11-27 (tested with rclone v1.53.1 and Nextcloud Server v19).
Rclone can be used with Sharepoint provided by OneDrive for Business or Office365 Education Accounts. This feature is only needed for a few of these Accounts, mostly Office365 Education ones. These accounts are sometimes not verified by the domain owner github#1975
This means that these accounts can't be added using the official API (other Accounts should work with the "onedrive" option). However, it is possible to access them using webdav.
To use a sharepoint remote with rclone, add it like this: First, you need to get your remote's URL:
- Go here to open your OneDrive or to sign in
- Now take a look at your address bar, the URL should look like this:
https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[YOUR-EMAIL]/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx
You'll only need this URL up to the email address. After that, you'll most likely want to add "/Documents". That subdirectory contains the actual data stored on your OneDrive.
Add the remote to rclone like this:
Configure the url
as https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[YOUR-EMAIL]/Documents
and use your normal account email and password for user
and pass
.
If you have 2FA enabled, you have to generate an app password.
Set the vendor
to sharepoint
.
Your config file should look like this:
[sharepoint]
type = webdav
url = https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[YOUR-EMAIL]/Documents
vendor = sharepoint
user = YourEmailAddress
pass = encryptedpassword
Use this option in case your (hosted) Sharepoint is not tied to OneDrive accounts and uses NTLM authentication.
To get the url
configuration, similarly to the above, first navigate to the desired directory in your browser to get the URL,
then strip everything after the name of the opened directory.
Example: If the URL is: https://example.sharepoint.com/sites/12345/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx
The configuration to use would be: https://example.sharepoint.com/sites/12345/Documents
Set the vendor
to sharepoint-ntlm
.
NTLM uses domain and user name combination for authentication,
set user
to DOMAIN\username
.
Your config file should look like this:
[sharepoint]
type = webdav
url = https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]/some-path-to/Documents
vendor = sharepoint-ntlm
user = DOMAIN\user
pass = encryptedpassword
As SharePoint does some special things with uploaded documents, you won't be able to use the documents size or the documents hash to compare if a file has been changed since the upload / which file is newer.
For Rclone calls copying files (especially Office files such as .docx, .xlsx, etc.) from/to SharePoint (like copy, sync, etc.), you should append these flags to ensure Rclone uses the "Last Modified" datetime property to compare your documents:
--ignore-size --ignore-checksum --update
Use this option if you are hosting remotes over WebDAV provided by rclone. Read rclone serve webdav for more details.
rclone serve supports modified times using the X-OC-Mtime
header.
dCache is a storage system that supports many protocols and authentication/authorisation schemes. For WebDAV clients, it allows users to authenticate with username and password (BASIC), X.509, Kerberos, and various bearer tokens, including Macaroons and OpenID-Connect access tokens.
Configure as normal using the other
type. Don't enter a username or
password, instead enter your Macaroon as the bearer_token
.
The config will end up looking something like this.
[dcache]
type = webdav
url = https://dcache...
vendor = other
user =
pass =
bearer_token = your-macaroon
There is a script that obtains a Macaroon from a dCache WebDAV endpoint, and creates an rclone config file.
Macaroons may also be obtained from the dCacheView web-browser/JavaScript client that comes with dCache.
dCache also supports authenticating with OpenID-Connect access tokens. OpenID-Connect is a protocol (based on OAuth 2.0) that allows services to identify users who have authenticated with some central service.
Support for OpenID-Connect in rclone is currently achieved using
another software package called
oidc-agent. This is a
command-line tool that facilitates obtaining an access token. Once
installed and configured, an access token is obtained by running the
oidc-token
command. The following example shows a (shortened)
access token obtained from the XDC OIDC Provider.
paul@celebrimbor:~$ oidc-token XDC
eyJraWQ[...]QFXDt0
paul@celebrimbor:~$
Note Before the oidc-token
command will work, the refresh token
must be loaded into the oidc agent. This is done with the oidc-add
command (e.g., oidc-add XDC
). This is typically done once per login
session. Full details on this and how to register oidc-agent with
your OIDC Provider are provided in the oidc-agent
documentation.
The rclone bearer_token_command
configuration option is used to
fetch the access token from oidc-agent.
Configure as a normal WebDAV endpoint, using the 'other' vendor,
leaving the username and password empty. When prompted, choose to
edit the advanced config and enter the command to get a bearer token
(e.g., oidc-agent XDC
).
The following example config shows a WebDAV endpoint that uses oidc-agent to supply an access token from the XDC OIDC Provider.
[dcache]
type = webdav
url = https://dcache.example.org/
vendor = other
bearer_token_command = oidc-token XDC