Installation

In this section you will found instructions on how to install AgenDAV.

Requirements

AgenDAV 2.0.0 requires the following software to be installed:

  • A CalDAV server
  • A web server
  • PHP >= 5.5.0
  • PHP ctype extension
  • PHP XML extension with libxml >= 2.7.0
  • PHP mbstring extension
  • PHP mcrypt extension
  • PHP cURL extension
  • A database backend

Warning

Some PHP releases have issues with digest authentication under Windows. If your CalDAV server uses digest authentication and you are hosting AgenDAV on a Windows server, make sure your PHP version is not affected.

See PHP bug #70101 for more details.

Most popular database backends are supported, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite.

Look for supported databases on this Doctrine DBAL driver list.

Downloading AgenDAV and uncompressing

AgenDAV 2.0.0 can be obtained at AgenDAV webpage.

Uncompress it using tar:

$ tar agendav-...tar.gz
$ cd agendav-.../

Download dependencies (only for Git)

If you downloaded AgenDAV from GitHub using git, you will need to download Composer and use it to fetch AgenDAV dependencies.

Composer is a PHP package manager, and some libraries used by AgenDAV are downloaded using it.

Composer installation is really simple:

$ cd web/
$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ php composer.phar install --prefer-dist --no-dev

For production environments it is recommended to run the following composer command that improves loading performance:

$ php composer.phar dump-autoload --optimize

Configuring PHP

Make sure that you have the following PHP settings set:

  • magic_quotes_runtime: disabled
  • date.timezone: choose a valid time zone from this list.

Database and tables

AgenDAV requires a database to store some extra information.

First of all you have to set up your database. If you plan using MySQL or PostgreSQL, here you will find some basic instructions about how to set up them.

Setting up a MySQL database

Create a user in MySQL and let it use a new agendav database:

$ mysql --default-character-set=utf8 -uroot -p
Enter password:
[...]
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON agendav.* TO agendav@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword'
mysql> CREATE DATABASE agendav CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> ^D

Setting up a PostgreSQL database

Use the special postgres system user to manage your installation. You can add a new user and a new database the following way:

# su postgres
$ psql
postgres=# CREATE USER agendav WITH PASSWORD 'somepassword';
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE agendav ENCODING 'UTF8';
postgres=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE agendav TO agendav;
postgres=# \q
$ exit

Then you have to edit the file pg_hba.conf, which is usually located at /var/lib/pgsql/. Add the following line before other definitions:

# TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD
local   agendav     agendav                           md5

Setting up a SQLite database

SQLite is not recommended for production environments, but will be more than enough for testing and single user environments.

You will need a dedicated directory for the database:

# mkdir database
# touch database/agendav.sqlite
# chown -R www-data:www-data database/

Create AgenDAV tables

AgenDAV tables are created by running the provided agendavcli script.

Before being able to run it, you will have to configure at least your database connection details. Have a look at the db.options parameter.

After configuring your database connection, just run the script like this:

$ php agendavcli migrations:migrate

Confirm the operation, and your database should be ready.

Configuring Apache to serve AgenDAV

Apache has to be configured to point to web/public directory.

Example using a dedicated virtualhost:

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:443>
 ServerAdmin admin@email.host
 DocumentRoot /path/to/agendav/web/public
 ServerName agendav.host
 ErrorLog logs/agendav_error_log
 CustomLog logs/agendav_access_log common

 <Location />
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]
 </Location>
</VirtualHost>

You can enable development mode by following the instructions at Development environment.

Other web servers

AgenDAV should run on any other web server software as well. Just read the Silex Webserver configuration guide.

Change directory permissions

You should change the owner and group for all AgenDAV files to the ones your webserver uses. Make sure you allow your webserver user to write on the var/ directory. The following example assumes your webserver runs as www-data user and www-data group:

# chown -R www-data:www-data web/
# chmod -R 750 web/var/

Configure AgenDAV

Now you can proceed to fully configure AgenDAV following the Configuration section.