Publishing iCal Calendars without .Mac??

[nomad01]

Can anyone offer any tips on how to do this? Is it a major b4ll ache to do or is there some nifty way of doing it.

Just want to be able to view my calendar if I'm out and about... and for my other half to view it too.

Cheers
Steve

 

[scanez]

You can publish it at icalx.com. Not as nice looking as .mac, but gets the job gone.

 

[RumMunkey]

You can publish your calendar to any webserver then view it with a browser. You won't be able to edit the calendar or subscribe for updates with this method though.

Try this...

In iCal, select a calendar then go to "Calendar" and "Publish"

Choose to publish on a private server and enter your login credentials

Publish away.

I believe after it publishes it will give you the final URL to access the calendar using any browser.

 

[nomad01]

I believe after it publishes it will give you the final URL to access the calendar using any browser.

Thanks very much for this . I had already tried this but it doesn't publish it in an html format from what I can tell.

If I access the URL it gives me, I just get a text/code list of the appointments.

am I doing something wrong?

I'll take a look at iCalX in the meantime.

 

[RumMunkey]

Try this....

Go to http://yoursite.com/directory/mycalendar (NO extension)

instead of webcal://yoursite.com/directory/mycalendars.ics.

 

[nomad01]

Try this....

Go to http://yoursite.com/directory/mycalendar (NO extension)

instead of webcal://yoursite.com/directory/mycalendars.ics.

Okay, iCal gave mea url in this format:

http://www.username.blueyonder.co.uk/Cal.ics

I've tried accessing it with that url and also with

http://www.username.blueyonder.co.uk/Cal

All I get when I access this page is:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
METHODUBLISH
X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London
PRODID:-//Apple Inc.//iCal 3.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
X-WR-CALNAME:Home
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-RELCALID:F157D3F6-2D79-4F02-803D-60E5050AEC40
X-APPLE-CALENDAR-COLOR:#0252D4
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGINAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
DTSTART:19810329T010000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU
TZNAME:BST
ENDAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
<SNIP>


Not pasting it all in here.

Any other thoughts? :-(

Steve

 

[hmmfe]

You can publish to a private server but you'll need to enable webDav. We are using 10.4 server to do just that so we can share our calendars in the office. Works well, but I am getting ready to migrate to 10.5 server and use a real calendar server.

The only real gotcha is changing permissions on the /Library/webserver/documents folder on the server. You need to give read/write to "www". Once you do this you can setup permissions to access the webserver for some additional security.

 

[j26]

You can sync to Google calendars with Spanning Sync. Edits made to either will be reflected in the next sync, so she can even add to your list of appointments as she sees fit (not sure if that's good or bad). It's not cheap, but there is a free trial to see if it suits.