I took a look at your account, and the problem was just a missing /var/lib/dav/ directory. I created that, and checked over your configuration to be safe – looks good now. Go ahead and give it a try again. If you run into any other trouble, feel free to send a note to me at cmichaelis@westhost.com and I can take another look.

Thanks!
–Chris

Sunbird give me an error message when I attempt to publish the calendar (error 403: Forbidden). It did not ask me for a password.

I’m also trying to do it through Outlook 2007 (Outlook actually offers us more flexibility)–Outlook asks me for a login and password, but doesn’t accept any of the 4 passwords I enter.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Chris

I’ve had a few questions about getting ’500 Internal Server Error’ when following these instructions. When using a DAV server, it needs a “lock database” – which keeps track of who is writing to a file to prevent collisions and similar information. This is usually created automatically.

Sometimes you may see a line in httpd.conf that mentions DAVLockDB, like this:
DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb

If the directory “/var/lib/dav” does not exist, it will cause a 500 internal server error. This is the most frequent cause of this error I’ve seen. To correct it, just create the directory “/var/lib/dav”, or change that line in httpd.conf to point to a location that exists.

Good luck!
–Chris

“Internal Server Error” is not one of the most helpful error messages out there; it’s not really intended to be, actually, for some historical reasons. If you can take a look at your error log file (/var/log/httpd/error_log) it may have some clues as to what’s wrong. A few other things to check would be making sure the place you’ve got set to save calendars (/var/www/html/dav in this case) exists, and making sure that you restarted the account or Apache after making changes to httpd.conf.

I would be happy to take a look at your account and find the problem if you’d like to send more details (and your domain name) to me at cmichaelis@westhost.com.

Good luck!
–Chris

using sunbird, i get the following error:
“Error getting calendar – Publishing the calendar file failed. status code: 500: Internal Server Error”

and iCal says:
“Publish failed for calendar ‘xx’ – Request to the server http://me@www.mydomain.com/dav/calendar.ics failed.”
if i put in the wrong password, i get the same in sunbird:
“Error getting calendar – Publishing the calendar file failed. status code: 500: Internal Server Error”

but in safari, i get this instead:
“Publish failed for calendar ‘xx’ – Authentication with server failed (http://me@www.mydomain.com/dav/calendar.ics).
Please check your login and password information.”

any ideas?

thanks in advance,
-mark