webDAV and own host Zotero server

[esguti]

I am trying to connect with my own hosted zotero server using webDAV, but I can only select official zotero account. Is it anyway to connect to my server? I would be very good feature, because I could not find any working application to do it in android

[31SFX4]

Is this a misunderstanding about how Zotero works? You can only use WebDAV to store the attachments, but for the database you always have to use the Zotero server; you can't setup a database syncing on your own server (you'd have to install the whole Zotero server software on your server, not just WebDAV, and I don't now if this is open source).

In Zoo the settings for WebDAV (for the attachments) are at the bottom of the settings screen, and they work as expected for me.

[esguti]

I didn't know that webdav could be used to store only the attachments. I have both, the attachments and the db, on my own nextcloud server and I connect with the Zotero desktop app using webdav

[31SFX4]

You mean you sync the database file (of the desktop app) directly with Nextcloud? But that's done with a separate Nextcloud client, no? I can't see that you can do that within the desktop app either. Does your desktop app not use an official Zotero account?

In any case I don't think direct database syncing would work with Zoo because it doesn't use the same database format as the desktop app, as far as I understand.

[CelianGdfrd]

Hi, I second @esguti here. I'm also storing my Zotero data on my Nextcloud installation. I'm not using a Zotero official account because of privacy concerns and storage limitations.

What I do is that I don't connect my Zotero clients with a Zotero account, and I locate my Zotero files in my Nextcloud local files. They are then synced on my devices connected to my Nextcloud. Then, on all my Zotero clients, I ask them to locate my Zotero files on my local Nextcloud files.

My Zotero database is perfectly readable this way, and is instantly synced between all my devices.