How to use the COPY method in WebDAV (nginx)?

Question

Nginx

There is the following problem:
When trying to copy the /from.png file using cURL to another directory using the COPY method, nginx swears.
nginx config:

location ~ ^/path/.+\.png {
   root  /mnt/path/to/;
   client_max_body_size 2m;
   dav_methods          PUT DELETE COPY;
   create_full_put_path on;
   dav_access           group:rw all:r;
}

Here is a request sent by curl (output with the verbose parameter)

> COPY /path/dir/file.png HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Accept: */*
Destination: http://localhost/path/dir2/file2.png

< HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
< Server: nginx/1.10.0 (Ubuntu)
< Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 07:38:53 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 202
< Connection: close
< 
* Closing connection 0

Error in log:

2016/11/25 14:38:53 [crit] 12205#12205: *626 open() "/mnt/path/to/path/dir2/file2.png" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "COPY /path/dir/file.png HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost"

The directory dir2 does not exist, is there any way to force nginx to create it and copy the file there?

Answer 1

Apply DAV PUT Method
curl -T '/path/to/local/file.txt' ' example.com/test '