# Nginx and WebDAV **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [December 2, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-webdav/179688 "2009-12-02T03:00:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![michelem](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@michelem](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michelem)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-webdav/179688/1 "2009-12-02T03:00:40Z")
Hello folks, Let me first thank for nginx. Among OSS, this is one of the projects I respect the most. You’re keeping the russian flag up high 🙂 I have settled with nginx some 3 years ago, after many years with Apache, and two hops with cherokee and lighttpd. Back at the time of Apache I was an addicted user of WebDAV. WebDAV is the simplest to use, simplest to administer, most efficient and most portable system for sharing files over the web. Because of this, I have been craving to have the same possibility with Nginx ever since. Over these years, I occasionally repeated a search for alternatives like standalone servers, or third party modules to accompany nginx. I have to say I am impressed that, despite the vast utility of WebDAV, I still can’t find a stable and reputable alternative. With this message, besides reporting my personal feedback, I would like to: 1. ask the team (Igor?) for an insight on this. I guess I read there is no plan nor interest in ever completing the WebDAV module (OPTIONS and PROPFIND methods), but I can’t find trace of this anymore. Is this (still) the case? If so, could you cast a rough estimate of the amount of work that’d be required? 2. poll the community to assess what is the actual public interest on such feature. Who is interested, can you please follow up this post? cheers michele Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[nginx and WebDAV](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,27243,27243#msg-27243)** > > Hello folks, Let me first thank for nginx. Among OSS, this is one of the projects I respect the most. You're keeping the russian flag up high :) I have settled with nginx some 3 years ago, after many years with Apache, and two hops with cherokee and... ---
**Author:** ![michelem](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@michelem](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michelem)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-webdav/179688/2 "2009-12-02T03:14:08Z")
there has been interest in a mod\_svn or something of that nature from many people. i think it could be done just by implementing these extra http verbs required for webdav. (not 100% sure, but i know that those missing are not helping) i for one would be very interested in this (mainly so i can do svn through nginx, in fact, i have a request right now to implement svn over https and it’s making it more complex because i have to use apache’s svn module and proxy to it) note: i would be willing to contribute some $$ to this cause (to get an svn module going, especially if it could be put into nginx without being a third party module) ---
**Author:** ![michelem](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@michelem](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michelem)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-webdav/179688/3 "2010-07-22T12:40:28Z")
mike Wrote: > note: i would be willing to contribute some $$ to this cause (to get > an svn module going, especially if it could be put into nginx without > being a third party module) Nginx is so functional, and now so widespread, that the lack of WebDAV support is becoming a pretty apparent spot. To this end, I’d like to sponsor some work too. I.e., for having WebDAV’s fundamental operations (like uploading/fetching/deleting/renaming resources) functioning with the most popular clients (windows, OS X Finder, ). To give some figures, 100€ or 150 CHF or $150 could be a start. Please assess the figure summing up with mike’s offer. If other users reading this forum are interested too, please consider making further offers, shrapnel makes the bomb. michele Posted at Nginx Forum: [http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,27243,111582#msg-111582](http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,27243,111582#msg-111582)