EDIT- The issue is having is with “Authentication”. I haven’t made it past that step. Incorrectly said “addresses” on the original post.

Yo yo! Fairly new to making a change towards privacy. My brother gave me a raspberry pi 4 and I want to experiment with that before making a bigger change towards my other electronics. Rn I’m working on using radicale on the pi4 and I’m stuck because I can’t understand the technological language.

I’m trying to follow the tutorial on the radicale website but am getting stuck in the “addresses” authentication part. I can’t enter in anything Into the initial command prompt I used to create the radicale website. And when I make a new command prompt and enter that in nothing happens. I asked AI and it spits out an answer that isn’t dumbed down enough for me. Lemmy is my last hope before I try Reddit …

Tutorial link for clarity https://radicale.org/v3.html#tutorials

  • Rowan Thorpe@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Just a heads-up to anyone who - like me - thought this was about Radicle and got confused about mentions of caldav/cardav/LDAP… Radicale != Radicle

  • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    Do you mean this config option?

    [server] 
hosts = 0.0.0.0:5232, [::]:5232

    That is binding the service to a network interface and port. For example your computer probably has a loopback interface and an Ethernet interface and WiFi interface. And you can bind to an IPv4 and or IPv6 address on those interfaces. Which ones do you want radicale to listen to traffic from and on what port? The example above listens on all interfaced both IPv4 and IPv6 and uses port 5323 on all. Of course that port must not be in use on any interface. Generally using this notation is insecure, but fine for testing. Put the real IP addresses when you’re ready.

    • BlackSnack@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      I thought I was stuck there but I misspoke. I made an edit to the original post. Thanks for the insight tho! In sure that’ll be helpful once I actually get there.

  • darkan15@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    I’m trying to follow the tutorial on the radicale website but am getting stuck in the “addresses” part.

    From reading from the link you provided, you have to create a config file on one of two locations if they don’t exist:

    “Radicale tries to load configuration files from /etc/radicale/config and ~/.config/radicale/config”

    after that, add what the Addresses sections says to the file:

    [server]
hosts = 0.0.0.0:5232, [::]:5232

    And then start/restart Radicale.

    You should be able to access from another device with the IP of the Pi and the port after that

    • BlackSnack@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      I made an error in my original post. Please see the edit I made.

      But I think I’m understanding a bit! I need to literally create a file named “/etc/radicale/config”. Then after that I need to copy/paste the configuration file/command line into said folder. Once I do that then I should be able to move onto authentication and then addresses.

      • darkan15@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        But I think I’m understanding a bit! I need to literally create a file named “/etc/radicale/config”.

        Yes, you will need to create that config file, on one of those paths so you then continue with any of the configuration steps on the documentation, you can do that Addresses step first.

        A second file for the users is needed as well, that I would guess the best location would be /etc/radicale/users

        For the Authentication part, you will need to install the apache2-utils package with sudo apt-get install apache2-utils to use the htpasswd command to add users

        So the command to add users would be htpasswd -5 -c /etc/radicale/users user1 and instead of user1, your username.

        And what you need to add to the config file for it to read your user file would be:

        [auth]
type = htpasswd
htpasswd_filename = /etc/radicale/users
htpasswd_encryption = autodetect

        Replacing the path with the one where you created your users file.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 days ago

    I set up mine through docker and it works great. I’ve switched from other CalDAV / CardDAV hosts and it really is the most stable and reliable.