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

I vaguely remember in a distant past that I may have tried to use the Apache server in order to work on websites. It's a good idea to restore it to its original state in case I screwed something up. Thanks James for the suggestion and the link.

Hi James, I had to put this project aside for the time being. I will certainly post the result as soon I get back to it.

Hi Barney,

I have down load your Tip but am stuck!! I thought I was pretty competent on a computer prior to trying the Tip but got no where.

I am desparate to get Calanders and Contacts up and running, especially during this busy holiday season. To may things going on and to many family memebers to get to differnt places. And to top it off I have my kids on old iPhone 3 that do not have the capability of using anything else but manual sync.

Help, please :-(

I am not confident enough to do your:

'Hosting your own CalDav and CardDav server using Baikal Serverhttps://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6311

So I guess I am not as computer savy as I thought. Truely it is beyond me. But your help is truely appreciatted.

Do you have a video that I can watch to see how to do the above?

Is there an app that has been developed that I can use.

Thanks.

Thank you very much, Barney-15E!

When I first saw your tutorial, I was convinced that it would be too difficult for me to make things work, but now everything's just fine! And better than before, because the whole family shares the calendar, whilst everybody remains with his own contacts...

Thanks again.

Thanks for the feedback.

It looks daunting at first, but that's just because I tried to make it as detailed as possible.

Firstly a big thank you for this.

I followed the instructions - and this was all new to me - so thanks.

I have managed to create the server and the CalDev and CardDev.

But got a couple of issues I need to sort out ...

Calendar - I can create a new item and it appears on my iPhone. (I havent set up the iPad yet)

but all my old calendar entries are not yet showing. It seems I have to export them and import again to the new CalDev calendar - I just haven't done that yet.

Contacts - OK ... I initially could not get it to work .. but I realised I made a typo at step p. on the Account URL - all good now

Thanks for this. It has been interesting to do.

Hopefully it will all be working soon.

OK ... I did a back up of my calendar and synched it to the CalDev and they have now appeared on iPhone. I forgot I had the synch set to like 30 minutes.

Cooking with gas !!!

Thanks guys.

I believe you have to use the .local format, but I never tested it. I just based that on having tried to network using the name without .local and it not working there.

I still have trouble setting up Contacts accounts. I have to walk through the steps judiciously to get it to work the first time.

Would like to thank you for the thread.

I bought OS X server (cheap) and I think that this is the best solution (Baikal & other solutions are more complicated).

Absolutely no change on OS X client set up after installation of the server.

I followed the instructions of http://securityspread.com/2013/10/27/setting-sync-server/

And it works on my iPad & iPhone for calendars, contacts, notes & reminder.

Consequently I closed all iCloud sync and removed manually the data still remaining on the iCloud web interface.

And it rocks !

The interesting thing is that now if I want to change of smartphone (It is a long time I am looking for dual Sim smartphone to avoid having 2 iphones professionnal/private and there is one for half of the price but sadly not an apple one..)

I can now do the switch easily if I want, I never thought of doing it before ....The idea of removing the local sync was not really a good idea I guess...

Hey I seem to be having a small problem. Since I created my own server cloud I have had 3 emails saying I have had a email fail ... and this is with my default ISP email NOT the one i used in set-up.

The server it references has the rather bemusing title of .... http://server.retiredteacherwithnoclass.com/

I am about to go into textwrangler to see if I somehow picked up a bad line of code.

Right now I'm feeling like my email has been hijacked ... but possibly something simpler.

If anyone has any insight into this ... please let me know

I'm not sure where that comes from, but it is not secure. You can access the files in it, including a list of email addresses.

Ok yes

It now looks like a coincidence.

I'm in the process of reporting them to SpamCop to get the server blocked

hi guys - still very happy with my local server synch.

I have tested it by adding new contacts on my iphone and also calendar events. I love the way it synchs wirelessly and automatically.

I'm only having one issue at the moment. When I create a calendar event in my calDev account, I get an error message if I try to send that event to an attendee email. At the moment I am creating Cal events in my regular calendar, sending the invite and moving the event to my CalDev account.

Welcome any advice on how to fix this one issue.