• Mac OS X Server

    Configure the Calendar Service in Mavericks Server

    Configuring Calendar Server in Mavericks Server (OS X Server 3) is a fairly simple and straight forward process. The Calendar Server is a CalDAV Server, leveraging HTTP and HTTPS, running on ports 8008 and 8443 respectively. To enable the Calendar service in Mavericks Server, open the Server application and click on Calendar in the SERVICES section of the sidebar. Once open, click on Edit to enable email notifications of invitations in the Calendar Server. Provide the email address and then click on the Next button. At the Configure Server Email Address screen, provide the type of incoming mail service in use, provide the address of the mail server and then…

  • Mac OS X Server

    Mac OS X Server: CalDav Log Fun

    The selected logfile does not exist. Ran into an interesting little problem again, where the iCal Server doesn’t create its log directory when you enable it.  Not sure why this happens, but the first thing to do when you see this error is verify that the /var/log/caldavd directory is present on the system.  If not: mkdir /var/log/caldavd Then, restart the service and see if access.log and error.log are created in this folder.  If not: touch /var/log/caldavd/access.log touch /var/log/caldavd/error.log And for good measure: chmod 640 access.log chmod 640 error.log How did I know where those logs go? serveradmin settings calendar:ErrorLogFile; serveradmin settings calendar:AccessLogFile It’s therefore possible to actually decide you’d rather…