How To: Publishing iCal calendars online without having .Mac

Ical iCal is an extraordinary calendar and planner software that comes with your mac and enables you creating calendars for all the different events. One of the coolest features of iCal is that you can publish and share your calendars online so you can access them anytime wherever you are or make them public and share them with your friends and family. If you have subscription to .Mac service, publishing iCal calendars to your .Mac account is very straightforward task. But what if you don’t have.Mac account and you still need to publish your calendars online? In this short article I gonna explain how it can be done.There are many third-party websites that offer free iCal calendars hosting. You can use you favourite search engine to find some, but in this article I gonna use: http://www.icalx.com. First thing you have to do when you visit the website is to create an account and get a username. I recommend to choose the username that is related to your calendar name (e.g Mark’s public calendar). Once you have created your account, open iCal.app and highlight the calendar(s) that you want to publish online. from “Calendar” menu choose “Publish”. In the field “Publish calendar as:” name your calendar or leave a default name (recommended). From the “Publish On;” drop down menu choose “A Private Server” option and fill all the fields as shown here….

Base URL: http://icalx.com/private/username/ or http://icalx.com/public/username/ if you want your calendar to be public.

Login: your username

Password: your password

Once you have entered everything it’s needed, hit “Publish” button to publish your calendar online. Your calendars will now be available online in .ics and html formats. You will be able to work with your calendars from your iCal.app and when you want to publish the updates of your calendar online, just right click desired calendar and choose “Refresh all”. If you are away from your mac and still need to check your calendars(s), you can view it as a web page too. Also, you can publish as many calendars you want.

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2 Responses to “How To: Publishing iCal calendars online without having .Mac”

  1. Daniel Says:
    January 7, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    is there away that i could host my own ical server?

  2. Davor Says:
    January 7, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    My guess is that one can publish iCal calendars on any server that supports WebDAV:

    1. Open iCal.
    2. Select a Calendar.
    3. Choose Calendar > Publish Calendar.
    4. Select “Publish Calendar on a WebDAV server”.
    5. Enter the Base URL from the set up instructions that we email to you. You may choose to publish to either the Private or Public URL.
    6. Enter the login name and password from the set up instructions.
    7. Click Publish.

    I’ve never tried hosting my own iCal server so I’m not 100 % whether it will work.

    I’ve also found this:

    http://appleclub.com.hk/server/macosx/features/admin.html

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