Setup for Apple Users
From DAViCal Wiki
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- Running an SSL server on port 8443 (CalDAV and CardDAV), or a plain HTTP server on port 8008 (for CalDAV) and 8800 (for CardDAV).<ref>Well known TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products</ref>
- Running from the root of the server
- Using mod_rewrite to translate request URLs
If you install DAViCal in a subdirectory, or run it on a port other than 8443 (SSL) or 8008 and 8800 (unencrypted) then clients using the Apple devices will need to go into the advanced settings and configure the full URL, as detailed in the installation instructions for iCal and iPhone (the iPod instructions are the same as for the iPhone).
The use of mod_rewrite for URL Rewriting is explained in the Apache Config section.
If that's all set up...
When your server is properly configured with all of the above, it should be possible for users to configure iCal or iPhone by entering only:
- The server hostname
- The username
- The password
and the client should auto-discover all the rest.
It has been reported [1] that clientside the path should omit the trailing '/home' or '/home/'.
Notable Issues
iCal handles principal grants, not collection grants
So you need to restrict access at the collection level after granting broader access at the principal level, and users may still see delegated calendars that they cannot actually read and/or write to.
Lookback on iPhone
If you get a blank calendar on an iPhone the standard fix seems to be to set the look back for 'Only last two weeks of events' (you still see all future events, of course). I have no idea why this might be the case, but changing that setting has so frequently fixed the problem that it has to be mentioned... Should be resolved in 0.9.9.5.
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