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I wish there was a webdav server that wasn't a huge PHP thing and had decent authentication/authorization.

Almost everything has SFTP built in anyway now though, it's only a matter of time before OSes other than Linux based ones integrate it into the shells and then webdav won't matter so much.

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Seafile has been working for me as a personal Dropbox replacement, with s3ql for mass storage. It's very light in relation to Nextcloud/Owncloud (a primary criterion for me trying to cheap out on servers), supports WebDAV, role-based access and a bunch of SSO options. The biggest possible drawback I can think of is that it doesn't store files in the plain, so you can't trivially tie in SFTP or serve files from the storage directly.

Re: files in the plain, the server application is bundled with a daemon that allows you to access files locally as a read-only FUSE mount, e.g.:

   seaf-fuse.sh start /mnt/seafile

I find it pretty handy when running a web server on the same host: drop files into a folder on my local machine, and they show up in the web root in seconds!

Do you just want WebDAV and nothing else? There’s plenty of Docker images for that and most of them are just Apache with the relevant plugin and config.

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