[Owncloud] Calendar syncing issues

[Robin Appelman]

On Sunday 06 May 2012 18:39:58 Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> On Sunday 06 May 2012 17:47 Thomas Müller wrote:
> > Am 06.05.2012 um 17:20 schrieb Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net>:
> > > On Sunday 06 May 2012 09:15 Daniel wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >> 
> > >> I haven't been able to sync calendars with Thunderbird (SOGO Connector)
> > >> or my Android phone. I'm using the latest pull from git, and this has
> > >> been going on for about a week or so now. Previously, everything was
> > >> working great.
> > >> 
> > >> When I try to add a calendar in Thunderbird, the only error I see is
> > >> from Thunderbird - nothing in Apache:
> > >> 
> > >> Error code: DAV_NOT_DAV
> > >> 
> > >> In Android it looks like it tries to connect to the server via a few
> > >> different URLs with no success:
> > >> 
> > >> script '/var/www/owncloud/groupdav.php' not found or unable to stat
> > >> script '/var/www/owncloud/remote/webdav.php' not found or unable to
> > >> stat
> > >> script '/var/www/owncloud/apps/calendar/caldav.php' not found or unable
> > >> to stat
> > > 
> > > Same goes for Kontact - or rather Akonadi. I get "An error occurred:
> > > localhost: Connection refused".
> > > 
> > > The old paths /apps/calendar/caldav.php and /apps/calendar/carddav.php
> > > should maybe redirect to /remote/*.php for clients that don't support
> > > .well-known files?
> > 
> > Paths are redirected - afaik in .htaccess in /apps/calendar and
> > /apps/contacts.
> 
> Hmm, you're right.
> 
> Some problems with that (some may be documented):
> 
> - At least on *buntu apache is preconfigured not to allow .htaccess
> 
> - The redirect is wrong because it presumes OC webroot == '/' My .htaccess
> has this:
> 
>  Redirect 301 /apps/calendar/caldav.php /remote/caldav.php
>  Redirect 301 /apps/contacts/carddav.php /remote/carddav.php
>  Redirect 301 /apps/files/webdav.php /remote/webdav.php
>  Redirect 301 /files/webdav.php /remote/webdav.php
> 
> If I change it to using:
> 
>  Redirect 301 /owncloud/apps/calendar/caldav.php /owncloud/remote/caldav.php
> Redirect 301 /owncloud/apps/contacts/carddav.php
> /owncloud/remote/carddav.php Redirect 301 /owncloud/apps/files/webdav.php
> /owncloud/remote/webdav.php Redirect 301 /owncloud/files/webdav.php
> /owncloud/remote/webdav.php
> 
> It works OK when I set up an Akonadi resource.
> 
> - I'm not sure if the RewriteRules have the same problem as I suck at
> regexps ;-)
> 
> > Does /remote/caldav.php /remote/carddav.php exits?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Files do get copied there. Make sure apache has write permissipns on that
> > folder.
> 
> It has - whether it's good to have yet another writable directory is another
> question.

ownCloud should not depend on a functional .htaccess or write access to 
anything except the config and data dir, isn't it easier to add a 
remote/*dav.php that includes the correct dav handeler from the apps?

 - Robin Appelman