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Use Your Mac to Share iCal Calendars

Posted by pudge on from the diy dept.

mcwetboy writes "Calendar publishing with iCal requires a .Mac membership or a WebDAV server. Most ISPs and hosting companies don't offer WebDAV -- or at least mine don't -- but you can run WebDAV under Apache on your Mac, and publish calendars and share them among a local network or among multiple users of a single computer. Already two different tutorials explaining how to do this have appeared on the Web: this one at Mac OS X Hints and this one courtesy of Shawn Wall. I'm sure Slashdot readers could offer even more suggestions." I set up mod_dav for the first time within an hour of downloading iCal the other day, with help from this article. Now, if only iCal weren't really slow and buggy ...

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  1. WebDAV and PHP by qengho · · Score: 3, Informative

    I kept getting XML errors when restarting httpd after enabling WebDAV. Turns out it's a conflict between Marc Liyanage's otherwise excellent PHP4 module for OS X.

    If you need to run both WebDAV and php, use Apple's php module.

  2. In a related story... by MoneyT · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Calendar Makers Association of America (CMAA) has filed a lawsuit against Apple for promoting the illegal sharing of calenders over the internet.

    Said a representative of the CMAA:
    "We can not allow the distribution of content without properly compensating the original creators."

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  3. Viewing on the web. by sammy.lost-angel.com · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd like the ability to view iCals on the web like .Mac lets you do. I already have the webdav server set up a la iDisk (from months ago). However, I need a pretty display program. I really don't have the time to do it myself right now, so are there any perl/php modules that can do this and have it look pretty?

    1. Re:Viewing on the web. by babbage · · Score: 4, Informative
      Check out Net::ICal, by Shane Landrum. The module hasn't been updated in a while, but now that Apple is basing this [apparently wildly popular] software around interfhance of .ical format files, it may get moving again. Net::ICal is available via CPAN, but also take a look at reefknot.org, the development site for Net::ICal & related materials. Lots of links, sample code, reference material, etc. there.

      Like everyone else in the Mac/Unix world, I'm finding this stuff fascinating and am trying to figure out how I can get interchange running between things like iCal, my Palm Pilot, my work-mandated Lotus Notes account, and other fun things on the side. iCal seems like a decent switchboard for a lot of these ideas, but automatiing things with Perl &/or Applescript is also going to be essential....

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  4. Re:Privacy, privacy, privacy by foobar104 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you care so much about your personal calendar that you're concerned about transport-level encryption and digital certificates, your priorities may be completely out of whack. Better have them checked out by a qualified professional soonest.

  5. Mozilla Calendar supports iCalendar/WebDAV also by lcarstensen · · Score: 5, Informative
    I'm suprised no one mentioned the Mozilla Calendar project's announcement and roadmap this week. This was posted to netscape.public.mozilla.calendar on news.mozilla.org.


    Hello everyone!

    Well, its been a long time coming, but I think that the calendar is finally at a release that I consider to be relatively stable, and that performs well. The XPI that is available right now fixes many selection problems, reads in Apple's iCal files from http://www.apple.com/ical/library/ and allows users to publish their events back to a webDAV enabled server. I'm calling this release 0.8.

    What this means:
    The 0.8 XPI will remain on the website until we release 0.9. We will continue to make XPIs available as they need to be (daily, weekly, whatever) but they may be more unstable than the 0.8 release.

    At the same time, we will work towards putting the calendar into the Mozilla default builds. Build issues are being resolved now, and we should be ready to go soon. I imagine we'll see calendar in Mozilla by their 1.5 release (I hope, and assuming all goes well).

    The 0.9 Mozilla calendar release will coincide with turning the calendar on by default in nightly builds.

    The 1.0 calendar release will hopefully coicide with the 1.5 release of Mozilla, at which point our numbering system will jump up and match theirs.

    Hopefully soon we'll have the target milestones in bugzilla. We will start to prioritize the bugs and see which bugs must be fixed for 0.9 and 1.0, and which ones can wait.

    Thanks. The latest XPIs are linked off the website. The 0.8 XPIs are available at:
    http://www.oeone.com/files/calendar08_linux.x pi
    http://www.oeone.com/files/calendar08_windows. xpi

    Mike

    Mike Potter
    Software Developer, OEone Corp.
    Mozilla Calendar Project
    http://www.oeone.com
  6. Re:I need shared calendering on Mac and Linux. by foobar104 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have the perfect solution for you! It's something new that allows you to use your calendar while sitting in front of any computer; you can view it, add appointments, to-do items, or free-form notes quickly and easily, with total privacy and security, using an amazingly intuitive user interface!

    Check it out!

    (HHOS)