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I started running a DAV server for calendar and contacts. Smooth failing.

Typo. Not smooth failing - smooth sailing.

Thanks for that. Given the disdain being expressed in other comments on this article it was unclear if you meant it as-written.

What implementation are you using? Can you easily handle things like authentication and calendar sharing? For example sync a family calendar.

Radicale - https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale

I picked it because it's in a language I know (Python) and free and copyleft. These days I don't contribute to anything unless it's copyleft.

No idea if it supports family calendar, I need to look into that as well at some point.

EDIT Just checked and supports auth, yes.

YMMV and a lot of people hate it, but I've run Nextcloud for this for years. It has pretty comprehensive support for WebDAV and CalDAV. Has sharing and lots of different authentication options; I use OIDC with PocketID.

It used to be a constant headache to keep running, but ever since I switched to the TrueNAS/Docker plugin it has worked smoothly. I know a lot of other people also have had good luck with the much lighter Radicale if CalDAV is your primary concern.

> It used to be a constant headache to keep running

It’s been very easy to run for me since version 15 or something. Basically i just use the stock docker image and mount a few files over there. The data folders are bind-mounded directories.

As usual with anything php, it’s only a mess if you start managing php files and folders yourself. Php has a special capability of making these kind of things messy, i don’t know why.

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