About DAViCal
DAViCal is an application which runs on a server and hosts calenders with a graphical admininstratino interface but no graphical user interface. If you want to see your calender in the browser, you will need to get an extra program.
Installation
I mainly followed the installation instructions from the DAViCal website I already had all prerequisites installed, but the command to install them would look something like this on ubuntu:
$ sudo apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0 php7.0-pgsql postgresql python-certbot-apache
Where libapache2-mod-php7.0 and php7.0-pgsql are needed so that apache can communicate with php and php can communicate with postgresql, respectively. It might work to omit the php version numbers. One could use apt search php | grep apache to see which php version is current.
$ sudo apt install davical $ sudo cp /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf.bkp $ echo -e "local \tdavical \tdavical_app \ttrust \nlocal \tdavical \tdavical_dba \ttrust" | sudo tee /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf $ sudo cat /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf.bkp | sudo tee -a /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf > /dev/null $ sudo chown postgres /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/environment /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf.bkp /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_ident.conf /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf.bkp /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/start.conf
Then, I installed davical, backed up the PostgreSQL configuration file and with the next two commands I prepend the two lines local daviacl davical_app test local davical davical_dba trust.
(I tried to append these two lines, but as the installation instructions say, it doesn't work that way.)
Where davical is the database name davical_app and davical_dba are users (have a look at /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hpa.conf - it is lightly documented).
The last command in the above section changes the owner of some files to the postgresql user.
$ sudo systemctl restart postgresql.service $ sudo su postgres -c /usr/share/davical/dba/create-database.sh $ sudo vim /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini # include_path = ".:/usr/share/awl/inc" $ sudo vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf # www.davical.org/install.php $ sudo vim /etc/davical/config.php # www.davical.org/install.php $ sudo certbot --apache -d wlankabel.at,www.wlankabel.at,bestoked.at,www.bestoked.at,davical.wlankabel.at,calender.wlankabel.at
Then, I restarted the PostgreSQL service (service = program running quietly in the background) so that the changed configuration file will take effect. And as the user postgres I executed the create-database.sh script which comes with the DAViCal installation.
The next step is to include AWL (Andrew's Web Libraries) such that PHP can read it because DAViCal depends on it.
Syncing with differnt devices
- Android: Open Sync
- MacOS: native Calendar App
- Linux: Thunderbird (for example)