This makes CalDAV suitable for an office environment. It also handles recurring events, enables free/busy lookups, etc. Also, a CalDAV calendar doesn't use a single file, but stores calendar events as files in directories. Different users of different groups can have different permissions to read and write to a calendar, etc. Concepts such as users, groups, locations and resources are introduced, enabling collaborative scheduling.

( WebDAV with Apache 2.x on Ubuntu)īuilt on top of WebDAV, CalDAV is a standard protocol, specified in RFC 4791, which enables advanced online calendar functions.

Apache will do the trick, with with mod_dav if you want WebDAV publishing support. If this is all you want, then you don't really need a CalDAV server. A TV-channel could use this to announce their program, for instance, or Free Software communities can use it to enable users to see how the project is progressing, release dates, etc. The 'On the web'-type of calendar is suitable when you want anyone in the world to have access to the calendar. WebDAV, an abbreviation that stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, refers to the set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote World Wide Web servers. The application can also publish the calendar to the web-server using WebDAV. Your calendar application will open a normal http connection to the web server, download the calendar file and use it just like a normal, local calendar, except in most cases it will be read-only. 'On the web' calendars are simply iCalendar files stored on a web-server for clients to download. There are many ways of enabling other people to see your calendar, but the two most common, are what Evolution calls 'On the web'-calendars (or webcal), and CalDAV-calendars. The reader is advised to research other calendar servers and keep in mind the limited scope of these instructions.

There are also other CalDAV serves, including DAViCal, some of which work better than the Darwin Calendar Server. There are many other Calendar Servers, so the title of this page is misleading. This page explains how to install Apple's Darwin Calendar Server (also called DCS, and the basis for their iCal Server).

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