On 15 Apr 2004, at 13:56, aperantos lists wrote:
I suggested setting up your own WebDAV on the other lists, here is the message I sent:
That was fun, and it worked!
I found the instructions on OS X Hints to be rather confusing and buggy
so I instead used the ones located here
http://electronworks.com/dav/dav-jag.txt - they still look inaccessible
but at least they are accurate and explain what you are doing.
Thanks again Michael but if this is the easy version I would hate to see the confusing one. I think there is the potential for me to make a total mess with this, which is why I did not have a go last time. Surely there must be an easier way............ :0| If not there should be.
Drew
A couple of points to bare in mind - you need to have root access, the document says that BBEdit can help you out with this (not sure if you still need to have root enabled) but you will need to resort to the terminal for some of the messing about.
The instructions name your WebDav "DAVdocs" but you can choose any name you want for this folder, just change the line that starts "<Directory" accordingly, and of course make sure you have created the folder and set the permissions as described.
Finally you might not be bothered with authentication if it is only going to be used on a private network - in this case you can use the following section where the instructions tell you insert the "<Directory..." block:
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents/DAVdocs/"> DAV On </Directory>
You can then also skip anything following this part of the instructions
until you are told to "Finally, restart the webserver".
If you are going to make your computer available to untrusted users or the internet (you can stop your calendars being accessed via the internet with a firewall like Brickhouse by just closing port 80) then you really should go for authentication though as you will effectively be creating an iDisk on your own machine, one which someone unscrupulous could mount on their desktop and use as free space for anything and as a back door into your system. It's just a shame it is such a pain to set up a user database.
Hopefully the instructions on the page above will be all you need but
if you want me to make it a bit more friendly or have any questions let
me know and I'll see what I can do.
Isn't it just great what OS X can do straight out of the box though!
If you work though the web page linked it really is very simple to set up your own server to which you can then publish calendars.
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