In hopes that this saves someone else some trouble... I've been running CalendarServer in "developer" mode for about a year, but I recently moved my server to a shiny new Mac Mini, and decided it was time to do this "right", as directed in the "run" script. Here, as best as I could keep track as I was doing it, is what I ended up doing to get this working. This is much tided up -- there were a lot of fits and starts while I was actually figuring things out. (Some of these changes were because I wanted to run the server as the calendar user, which doesn't have rights to write to /var/run, so I had to move some files down a level.) # A place to build the server... mkdir /usr/local/caldavd cd /usr/local/caldavd # Check out the sources, see <http://trac.calendarserver.org/wiki/Repository> for the svn command # Build the server cd /usr/local/caldavd/CalendarServer ./run -s # Making the installation (below) doesn't copy memcached to /usr/local/bin, # apparently assuming it can be found via the PATH, but that didn't work # for me, so... cp /usr/local/caldavd/memcached-1.2.6/memcached /usr/local/bin # Make required changes to twistedcaldav/stdconfig.py -- see the notes # at the end of this document, which detail the steps I went through to # ultimately arrive at these changes. # In particular: # change references to /var/run/caldavd.xxx to /var/run/caldavd/caldavd.xxx # change references to /usr/share/caldavd/bin to /usr/local/bin, since # that's where other things get installed # update the entry for memcached so that it has the full path: # /usr/local/bin/memcached # Make the instalation ./run -i /tmp/caldavd cd /tmp/caldavd sudo chown -R calendar:calendar . sudo pax -pe -rvw . / # Move caldavd.plist to a more sensible (to me!) place mkdir /etc/caldavd mv System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/caldavd/caldavd.plist /etc/caldavd # Get sample accounts.xml and sudoers.xml cp /usr/local/caldavd/CalendarServer/conf/auth/accounts-test.xml /etc/caldavd/accounts.xml cp /usr/local/caldavd/CalendarServer/conf/sudoers.plist /etc/caldavd chown -R calendar:calendar /etc/caldavd chmod g+s /etc/caldavd chmod -R g+w /etc/caldavd* # Edit caldavd.plist, accounts.xml and sudoers.plist as appropriate. # The changes to caldavd.plist were: # ports for HTTP and HTTPS, and enabling HTTPS # Adding the location of the server key and certificate (I made a self-signed cert) # changing bare references to /var/run to /var/run/caldavd # changing the usergroup from daemon:daemon to calendar:calendar # Pruned the heck out of accounts.xml # Left sudoers.plist unchanged # Make required directories mkdir /Library/CalendarServer chown calendar:calendar /Library/CalendarServer chmod g+ws /Library/CalendarServer mkdir /var/run/caldavd chown calendar:calendar /var/run/caldavd chmod g+ws /var/run/caldavd mkdir /var/log/caldavd chown calendar:calendar /var/log/caldavd chmod g+ws /var/log/caldavd # Try starting the server. Check /var/log/caldavd/error.log for problems. # Rinse and repeat. sudo -u calendar /usr/local/bin/caldavd -f /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist # Notes # # The first problem was that for some reason, we ended up in /usr/local/caldavd/CalendarServer/calendarserver/tap/caldav.py, which gets config info from /usr/local/caldavd/CalendarServer/twistedcaldav/stdconfig.py, which has bad references to files in /var/run, rather than /var/run/caldavd. Try fixing those. # It turns out that if you run /usr/local/bin/caldavd with cwd=/, then we more properlly ended up in /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/calendarserver/tap/caldav.py, which (presumably) gets config info from /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/twistedcaldav/stdconfig.py, which still has bad references to files in /var/run, rather than /var/run/caldavd. Try fixing those. # /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages//twistedcaldav/stdconfig.py has references to /usr/share/caldavd/bin. Change those to /usr/local/bin, since that's where things get installed. # /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/twisted/internet/process.py at line 442 does an os.execvpe call that results in a "No such file or directory" error, with no notation about the file name. Add some debugging code just before line 395 to print out the value of the 'executable' variable, to try to chase this down. (Actually, I subsequently discovered that Ithink there was something in the log that had the missing file name, so that change was unnecessary. Oh, well.) # Looks like it's memcached, so copied binary from /usr/local/caldavd/memcached-1.2.6/memcached to /usr/local/bin, and updated reference in twistedcaldav/stdconfig.py to include path. # Remove debugging code from /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/twisted/internet/process.py # Ultimately, all the problems seemed to be with stdconfig.py, so I added the step early in the process above to make these changes before doing the install. I also made a launchd file to start the server (and keep it running). Let me know if you'd like a copy. -- Steve Burling <mailto:srb@umich.edu> University of Michigan, ICPSR Voice: +1 734 615.3779 330 Packard Street FAX: +1 734 647.8700 Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2910