Debian 6 shared

This guide is intended to systems where can be more than one DAViCal installation, and permissions are not open to other users in the system or in Apache websites.

Systems tested:
 * Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
 * Debian 6 (Squeeze)

Software versions tested:
 * DAViCal 1.1.1
 * PostgreSql 8.4

Install guide
Register stable repository (useful for any Ubuntu/Debian), and install DAViCal + PostgreSql service: sudo apt-key advanced --keyserver pgp.net.nz --recv-keys F6E0FA5CF0307507BB23A512EAFCFEBF8FEB8EBF echo "deb http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian stable awm #DAViCal CalDAV Server" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/davical.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install postgresql davical davical-doc php5-curl php5-cgi

Prepare the DAViCal database values DatabaseName=mycaldb DBUsername_dba=mycaluser_dba DBUsername_app=mycaluser_app DBPassword=12345 AdminPassword=1234

Add open permissions temporarily for the installation scripts: MediumPgVersion="$(psql --version | grep -ie "sql" | tr -s " " "\n" | tail --lines=1 | cut -f 1,2 -d ".")" PgConfig="/etc/postgresql/${MediumPgVersion}/main/pg_hba.conf" sudo mv "$PgConfig" "${PgConfig}.davical-bak" sudo cp -a "${PgConfig}.davical-bak" "$PgConfig" echo "# Permissions for the DAViCal CMS" | sudo tee "$PgConfig" echo "local $DatabaseName $DBUsername_dba trust" | sudo tee --append "$PgConfig" echo "local $DatabaseName $DBUsername_app trust" | sudo tee --append "$PgConfig" echo "" | sudo tee --append "$PgConfig" sudo cat "${PgConfig}.davical-bak" | sudo tee --append "$PgConfig" sudo service postgresql-${MediumPgVersion} reload

Apply a temporary patch to creation script: CScript="/usr/share/davical/dba/create-database.sh" sudo mv "$CScript" "${CScript}.davical-bak" sudo cp -a "${CScript}.davical-bak" "$CScript" cat "${CScript}.davical-bak" | sed -e "s/DBNAME=.*/DBNAME=${DatabaseName}/g" | sed -e "s/AWL_DBAUSER=.*/AWL_DBAUSER=${DBUsername_dba}/g" | sed -e "s/AWL_APPUSER=.*/AWL_APPUSER=${DBUsername_app}/g" | sudo tee "$CScript"

Apply a temporary patch to update script: UScript="/usr/share/davical/dba/update-davical-database" sudo mv "$UScript" "${UScript}.davical-bak" sudo cp -a "${UScript}.davical-bak" "$UScript" cat "${UScript}.davical-bak" | sed -e "s/\$dbname = .*/\$dbname = \"${DatabaseName}\";/g" | sed -e "s/\$dbuser = .*/\$dbuser = \"${DBUsername_dba}\";/g" | sed -e "s/\$appuser = .*/\$appuser = \"${DBUsername_app}\";/g" | sed -e "s/\$dbpass = .*/\$dbpass = \"${DBPassword}\";/g" | sudo tee "$UScript"

(only fresh install) Run main installation script and take note of the shown password for the 'admin' user: sudo su postgres -c "$CScript" "$DatabaseName" "$AdminPassword"

(only restoration of a backup) Restore data and run update script: echo "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS mycaldb;" | sudo su postgres -c psql echo "DROP USER IF EXISTS mycaluser_dba;" | sudo su postgres -c psql sudo su postgres -c "psql --quiet --file mycaluser_dba.pgdump" echo "DROP USER IF EXISTS mycaluser_app;" | sudo su postgres -c psql sudo su postgres -c "psql --quiet --file mycaluser_app.pgdump" sudo su postgres -c "psql --quiet --file mycaldb.pgdump" sudo su postgres -c "$UScript"

Restore installation scripts to original: sudo mv "${UScript}.davical-bak" "$UScript" sudo mv "${CScript}.davical-bak" "$CScript"

(only fresh install) Set password authentication for the database: echo "ALTER USER $DBUsername_dba WITH PASSWORD '${DBPassword}';" | sudo su postgres -c psql echo "ALTER USER $DBUsername_app WITH PASSWORD '${DBPassword}';" | sudo su postgres -c psql

Allow these authenticated access to PostgreSql: echo "# Permissions for the DAViCal CMS" | sudo tee "$PgConfig" echo "local $DatabaseName $DBUsername_dba password" | sudo tee --append "$PgConfig" echo "local $DatabaseName $DBUsername_app password" | sudo tee --append "$PgConfig" echo "" | sudo tee --append "$PgConfig" sudo cat "${PgConfig}.davical-bak" | sudo tee --append "$PgConfig" sudo service postgresql-${MediumPgVersion} reload

Create or restore configuration file as /etc/davical/caldav.example.net-conf.php (for a virtualhost caldav.example.net) with its content as in the following example: admin_email = 'admin@example.net'; $c->system_name = "My CalDAV Server"; $c->enable_row_linking = true; $c->default_locale = 'en_US.UTF-8'; $c->pg_connect[] = 'dbname=mycaldb port=5432 user=mycaluser_app password=12345'; Avoid permissions issues: sudo chmod a+r /etc/davical/caldav.example.net-conf.php

Create or restore Apache virtualhost with its profile content as in this example:  ServerName	caldav.example.net DocumentRoot	/usr/share/davical/htdocs DirectoryIndex	index.php index.html Alias	/images/ /usr/share/davical/htdocs/images/  AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all  php_value include_path	/usr/share/awl/inc php_value magic_quotes_gpc	0 php_value magic_quotes_runtime	0 php_value register_globals	0 php_value error_reporting	"E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE" php_value default_charset	"utf-8"  (Apache may need to be configured in ports.conf to listen also ports 8008 and 8800)

Enable Apache website: sudo a2ensite caldav.example.net

Login to DAViCAL Admin
If all is going well you should now be able to browse to the site pages and log in as 'admin' with the password set during installation.

Backup all data
env PGPASSWORD=12345 pg_dump --create --inserts --attribute-inserts --disable-dollar-quoting --username=mycaluser -f "mycaldb.pgdump" mycaldb
 * Database (example for accessing mycaldb with user "mycaluser" and password "12345")

cat /dev/null > mycaluser_dba.pgdump sudo su postgres -c "pg_dumpall --roles-only" | grep -e " ROLE mycaluser_dba;" >> mycaluser_dba.pgdump sudo su postgres -c "pg_dumpall --roles-only" | grep -e " ROLE mycaluser_dba " >> mycaluser_dba.pgdump cat /dev/null > mycaluser_app.pgdump sudo su postgres -c "pg_dumpall --roles-only" | grep -e " ROLE mycaluser_app;" >> mycaluser_app.pgdump sudo su postgres -c "pg_dumpall --roles-only" | grep -e " ROLE mycaluser_app " >> mycaluser_app.pgdump
 * PostgreSql users/roles (example for mycaluser_dba + mycaluser_app)

/etc/davical/caldav.example.net-conf.php
 * CMS configuration:

/etc/apache2/sites-available/caldav.example.net
 * Apache site profile:

Reset the admin password
Useful after an installation, when we want to be sure of our wanted password (example for database name "mycaldb" and password "1234") echo "UPDATE usr SET password = '**1234' WHERE user_no=1;" | sudo su postgres -c "psql --dbname mycaldb"

Applying the last 2012 patch
Solves some problems with OS X and iOS: sudo -i wget http://www.inf-it.com/fixes/davical_2012-11-01.tgz tar -xzf davical_2012-11-01.tgz cd davical_2012-11-01 for Current in $(ls htdocs) ; do cat "htdocs/$Current" > "/usr/share/davical/htdocs/$Current" ; done for Current in $(ls inc) ; do cat "inc/$Current" > "/usr/share/davical/inc/$Current" ; done cd .. rm -R davical_2012-11-01 rm davical_2012-11-01.tgz exit

TroubleShooting
See Problems and Solutions and Frequently Asked Questions