How do I setup CalDav and CardDav servers on my Mac to enable local 'cloud' syncing in Mavericks

handoffmydata - I would be very interested to see if you can get that to work. I am a very old techie who might be useful if you ever need to program an IBM 360 with Assembler. I'd rather be handed the steps to follow that have been proven to work before I try something like this. looking forward to finding out whether this works.

I did also see in the very large (and angry) thread that someone was going to develop an app "calsycnh" but its not in the app store yet.

appid wrote:

I did also see in the very large (and angry) thread that someone was going to develop an app "calsycnh" but its not in the app store yet.

Then it has not been developed or has not been developed reliably.

Cheers

Pete

appid ... looks like James who started this discussion is well ahead of me. I will not be able to start working on it for another week at least … working off site and traveling at present.

The other development, a calendar/contact sync app, it was just a call for expression of interest, but I think somebody will develop a sync app eventually.

Meantime, the standalone local caldav/carddav is the best bet … hopefully James will get it working. I will attempt the Baikal solution as well when I get back home.

I have posted on the other thread a work around allowing syncing by using a second mac running 10.8.5. It's a bit of a kludge but it does work. It does not involve any sort of server but uses sync services on the other mac to access your existing files on the Mavericks machine.

If you have to buy a second Mac just to do this, then wouldn't it be easier just to use the second Mac with 10.8.5 on it to do the syncing via a USB cable in the first place?

Pete

I'm certainly not suggesting buying a second mac to do this, but if you have say an old Mac mini it gives you a stop gap while you sort out a way to do this in Mavericks through server. You are using the second mac to do the syncing, you're just not moving your home folder from your mac of choice to a retired machine. Finally, if you are lucky enough to have a brand new mac that will only run on 10.9, it gives you a quick and dirty temporary solution while something better comes along

If your Mac is capable of running 10.8.5 then why nor just reinstall your backup and use it under Mountain Lion until a better solution comes along? It seems like the simpelest answer, given thay Mavericks has only been out for a few short weeks and nobody has become totally dependant on it as yet unless they have a brand new Mac.

Just another suggestion.

Pete

Of course what you say is reasonable, but there seem a lot of people who installed Mavericks and are concerned about the downgrade process- it's got to be over an hour of lost brain cycles as well. Like the Irish response to how to get from point 'a' to point 'b': "I wouldn't start from here", many people are at Mavericks and want to get to Local Sync and even though the best advice is not to start from Mavericks, this will get you there.

fred242 wrote:

I'm certainly not suggesting buying a second mac to do this, but if you have say an old Mac mini it gives you a stop gap while you sort out a way to do this in Mavericks through server.

You don't have to use another Mac to do this. The term "server" does not imply a box. In this sense, it is just some software that "serves" out some function, ie CalDAV and CardDAV functions.

So, you can configure your current Mac running Mavericks to make this work.

James, when you get it running, let me know if the server continues after restart?

Mine did, but I was not expecting that. I am wondering if it is restarting Apache because I had it previously configured to run a web server on Mountain Lion.

fred242 wrote:

I have posted on the other thread a work around allowing syncing by using a second mac running 10.8.5. It's a bit of a kludge but it does work. It does not involve any sort of server but uses sync services on the other mac to access your existing files on the Mavericks machine.

Interesting ... this could solve one of our problems when the staff is on a job site and a more formal/expensive server is not a viable option.

Need to read your original post. Thanks.

I tried as explained by Barney:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5460803?answerId=23781793022#23781793022

Yes, it works, THANK YOU 1000 "Barney-15E"!

I tried using my local WiFi network (with router) and also creating a Wi-Fi network between the iMac and iPhone / iPod, it works with both.

To configure the devices have changed:

For CalDAV account:

no: http://<ip address>/cal.php/principals/username

yes: http://<ip address>:8080/cal.php/principals/username

For CardDAV account:

no: <ip address>:8080/cal.php

yes: <ip address>:8080/card.php

I tried with:

OS X 10.9

+

iPod touch (4th generation) with iOS 6.1 (accounts configured correctly on the first try)

+

iPhone 5 with iOS 7.0.3 (multiple attempts before successfully configure CardDAV account)

For now it works perfectly!

PS: Sorry for my GooglEnglish!

Just a question re above post ... you said it worked with OS X 10.9 .... will it work with OS Maverick ?

OSX 10.9 is Mavericks.

Pete