{"id":12,"date":"2007-07-25T13:54:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/2007\/07\/25\/poor-mans-calendar-server-with-ical-and-mozilla\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T18:54:57","slug":"poor-mans-calendar-server-with-ical-and-mozilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/2007\/07\/25\/poor-mans-calendar-server-with-ical-and-mozilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor man&#8217;s calendar server with iCal and Mozilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to set up a shared calendar system with free software that scales well for a few users (great for a home network) and has tons of support from third parties.<\/p>\n<p>What you need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iCal client like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/sunbird\/\">Sunbird<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/lightning\/\">Lightning<\/a> from Mozilla<\/li>\n<li>Apache web server with WebDav installed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How to do it:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Install WebDav and password protect a public directory on your web server.<\/li>\n<li>Touch a .ics file for your calendar.  I called mine matt.ics<\/li>\n<li>chmod the directory so the web user can create files and modify the .ics file<\/li>\n<li>Install and configure an iCal client that can publish via WebDav.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/sunbird\/\">Sunbird<\/a> is excellent for this.<\/li>\n<li>Remove your local calendar from Sunbird<\/li>\n<li>Add a calendar to Sunbird using the URL to your empty .ics file<\/li>\n<li>Add an event to your calendar.  Sunbird should modify the .ics file on your web server.  You will probably be prompted for the username and password on the first try.<\/li>\n<li>Add that calendar to as many clients as you want.  They can all share the calendar.  Create more calendars!  Party!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to set up a shared calendar system with free software that scales well for a few users (great for a home network) and has tons of support from third parties. What you need: iCal client like Sunbird or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/2007\/07\/25\/poor-mans-calendar-server-with-ical-and-mozilla\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,3,28,30,27,8,31,29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apache","category-calendaring","category-how-to-do-stuff","category-ical","category-lightning","category-linux","category-software","category-sunbird","category-thunderbird","category-webdav"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}