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---
extends: _layouts.post
section: content
title: Accessing Nextcloud With WebDAV on Arch
date: 2021-02-15
description: A guide to how I synchronise files to Nextcloud.
tags: [Arch, Nextcloud]
---
I have a Nextcloud instance and I want to mount it as a directory on my local machine. Since Nextcloud cloud supports the WebDAV protocol its possible to do this by installing davfs2 which can mount a WebDAV resource.
The first thing I had to do was install davfs2.
```shell
$ sudo pacman -S davfs2
```
Next I created the directory where Nextcloud would be mounted.
```shell
$ mkdir -p .local/share/nextcloud
```
I then needed to tell Arch how to mount Nextcloud by adding the below line to the */etc/fstab* file.
```shell
https://my-nextcloud-server.com/path /home/david/.local/share/nextcloud davfs rw,user,uid=david,noauto 0 0
```
Since access to Nextcloud is controlled by a username and password these where added to the *~/.davfs2* file.
```shell
https://my-nextcloud-server.com/path username password
```
I made sure this file had the correct permissions to ensure security.
```shell
$ chmod 600 ~/.davfs2/secrets
```
Now I can mount Nextcloud and access my files just like any others.
```shell
$ mount .local/share/nextcloud
```
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