{"id":81,"date":"2011-08-03T07:58:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T19:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templesoft.co.nz\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:19:30","slug":"creating-your-own-calendar-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/templesoft.co.nz\/journal\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Creating your own calendar server."},"content":{"rendered":"

“I love my little calendar girl”<\/h2>\n

Ever since I first put together my own e-mail server, I’ve been looking for something to “round-out” the offering with centralised calendar functionality using the CalDAV<\/strong> protocol – my own “Groupware” solution so to speak! The criteria was fairly simple: I wanted it to serve of the Linux platform (Ubuntu – no surprises there I guess), it should support CalDAV<\/strong>, show busy time when sending invites to internal users and work with a variety of clients.<\/p>\n

I started down the path of using a Debian port of Apple’s iCal server, often referred to on the net as “caldavd<\/strong>“, but the install became to bloated and complex. Trying to resolve dependencies was becoming a nightmare, and the hand editing of the config files was time consuming.<\/p>\n

I stumbled across DAViCal<\/strong> while looking for alternatives to caldavd – as luck would have it it was written by a fellow kiwi named Andrew McMillan<\/a>, so with patriotic fervor I set about installing it. It works great, and what’s better it meets all of my criteria!<\/p>\n

So without further ado, here’s what I started with as my base spec for this build:<\/p>\n