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CalDAV with Radicale 

Introduction 

We're using NetBSD in this guide. 

Prerequesties 

Make sure you've got python >=2.5 and apache (for htpasswd), 

pkg_info | grep python

pkg_info | grep apache

Fix the path, 

cd /usr/bin

ln -s /usr/pkg/bin/python2.6 python

Installation 

Get Radicale and proceed, 

wget http://www.radicale.org/src/radicale/Radicale-0.4.tar.gz

tar xzf Radicale-0.4.tar.gz

cd Radicale-0.4

./setup.py build

./setup.py install

Configuration 

Configure a few things, e.g. enable authentication, 

cd /etc

mkdir -p radicale

cd radicale

cat > config <<EOF9

[server]

host =

daemon = True

port = 80

ssl = False

[encoding]

request = utf-8

stock = utf-8

[acl]

type = fake

[storage]

folder = ~/.config/radicale/calendars

Note. to enable ACLs, 

[acl]

type = htpasswd

personal = True

filename = /etc/radicale/users

encryption = crypt

Note. to enable SSL, 

[server]

...

port = 443

ssl = True

certificate = /etc/openssl/server.crt

key = /etc/openssl/server.key

see http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/security/openssl_self_signed.html 

Ready to go 

Launch the Python daemon and check on which port it is listening, 

cd ~/

radicale -d --no-ssl

netstat -an -f inet

Enable at boot time, 

vi /etc/rc.local

like, 

echo -n starting Radicale...

/usr/pkg/bin/radicale -d --no-ssl && echo done

Eventually deploy this little script to restart the daemon when needed (after configuration changes), 

cd ~/

mkdir -p bin

cd bin

cat > restart_radicale.ksh <<EOF9

#!/bin/ksh

ps ax | grep radicale | grep -Ev 'restart|grep'

kill `ps ax | grep radicale | grep -Ev 'restart|grep' | awk '{print $1}'`

radicale -d --no-ssl

sleep 1

ps ax | grep radicale | grep -Ev 'restart|grep'

EOF9

chmod +x restart_radicale.ksh

Usage 

If using ACLs, create/modify a user's password (add -c if file doesn't exist), 

cd /etc/radicale

#htpasswd -c users USERNAME

htpasswd users USERNAME

You can now connect with e.g. Sunbird to the CalDAV service, 

http: //bsd/USERNAME/calendar/

#https: //bsd:443/USERNAME/calendar/

Note. default port is 5232 but we configured Radicale to spit on port 80 

References 

http://www.radicale.org/ 

http://www.radicale.org/user_documentation 

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=630743&sid=8eae4ddd744b1e64692b56c28ecaefe9 

/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/radicale/config.py 

http://wiki.davical.org/w/CalDAV_Clients 

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:QA_CalDAV_Support