[CalendarServer-users] Future Builds and deployment

[Josh Wisenbaker]

On Sat, September 9, 2006 9:44 am, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> --On September 9, 2006 10:34:12 AM -0400 Rick Davis <roodavis at mac.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This is my first stroll through Open Source, so please forgive my
>> ignorance.
>>
>> I have things working close to the way I want them to work, well except
>> for having a calendar that multiple users can add events to.  I think
>> that is a "wait for iCal on Leopard" issue. Of course that may all
>> change
>> when the users start reporting problems or feature requests. ;-)
>>
>> My question is about the location of the calendars and principals.
>> Should they stay in the current test location inside of the
>> twistedcaldav
>> directory or be moved to the location indicated in the caldavd.plist (as
>> opposed to the caldavd-dev.plist). If I deploy this to a server with the
>> current locations will the next or any future builds retain that
>> location
>> or move things as needed?
>>
>> I'm hoping to deploy this at a school for use by 40+ teachers and staff
>> and eventually open it up to the 900+ students.
>>
>> Thanks and Have A Great Day.
>
> For production use you should point the document root to some place
> outside
> of the server distribution. On OS X we default that in caldavd.plist to
> /Library/CalendarServer/Documents, which follows the convention used by
> the
> standard web server install.
>
> You will probably also want to use the -i option on the run script to
> install the server components in their usual 'system' location rather than
> running it from the distribution directory. That will give you the option
> of having a running production server installation whilst still being able
> to work on newer version in the distribution directory.

Since -i requires a dst path what do you recommend? From the looks of the
output it would seem that /Library would be the intention.

That's also a good bit different from what I know of 10.5 server...

Josh

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