Radicale installation on Devuan Daedalus 5.0

Thu, 30 May 2024 23:31:00 +0700

Since years I am running my own CalDAV / CardDAV server to synchronize my calendars and address books. I use Radicale for this and on my Uberspace it was installed via Python’s pip, but now it was time to move this to my own server too and I chose to install the package directly from the Devuan repository via apt-get install radicale.

The installation via apt-get just does the installation but some additional configuration was needed to set everything up.

At first I modified the configuration file /etc/radicale/config and did set
type = htpasswd and htpasswd_encryption = bcrypt (both in the [auth] section).

Then I created a new htpasswd file with my user:
htpasswd -c -B /etc/radicale/users <user>

Finally I started the service and enabled it to be started automatically:
/etc/init.d/radicale start
update-rc.d radicale enable

After this the radicale server is bound to localhost and listening on port 5232. For being accessible from the outside the following configuration must be added to the Nginx configuration (and Nginx being restarted once):

location /radicale/ { # The trailing / is important!
      proxy_pass        http://localhost:5232/; # The / is important!
      proxy_set_header  X-Script-Name /radicale;
      proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
      proxy_set_header  Host $http_host;
      proxy_pass_header Authorization;
}

Now I only had to copy contact and calendar entries from my Uberspace instance. Done!

Radicale on SROEMER

Radicale installation on Devuan Daedalus 5.0