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This is a small preview of Soolive, my first experiment on customizing gnome desktop. I’m sure, it’s not the right or better way to do that, it’s just a “public experiment”.

HOW TO INSTALL:

First of all, open your terminal and make sure your’re your homedir
cd ~
Download the archive
wget http://blog.soolid.it/data/2006/02/Soolive-theme.tar.gz

and unpack it
tar -zxvf Soolive-theme.tar.gz

enter soolive directory
cd soolive/

Make sure all files listed below exists
ls -la

. gnome-splash.png soolive-login.tar.gz .themes
.. README soolive-wallpaper.png

copy soolive custom theme directory in your theme dir
mv ~/soolive/.themes/Soolive/ ~/.themes/Soolive/

Launch Gnome Theme manger, select Soolive from the menu and close
gnome-theme-manager

Now we’ll change login windows: come back to terminal and type
gdmsetup

Select “Graphic Greeter” tab , then “install new theme” button and point to and select “soolive-login.tar.gz” from soolive directory. Check it from the list on the left and close.

Back again to terminal, get root privileges, rename default splash screen and copy the new one
su
mv /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.png /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.old
mv /home/gallo/soolive/gnome-splash.png /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/

Now copy the wallpaper inside theme directory
mv ~/soolive/soolive-wallpaper.png ~/.themes/Soolive/

Right click on your desktop and and change the desktop wallpaper searcing inside .themes/ in your homedir (if you can’t see hidden files try with a right clip on file browser and select show hidden files)

Now logout and login again.

This is small how-to will show you how to setup a small calendar server on a Fedora machine using apache, webdav, mozilla sunbird and 10 minutes of free time.

Our goals:
- Share calendars between users
- Simplify Calendar backup process
- Use ical Standard

Requirements:
- A running installation of Fedora Core (FC4 in my case)
- Apache webserver up and running
- An active network connection orFedora CdRom for additional packages

###### Server Side Setup ######

First of all check if mod_dav_svn is installed (on fedora it should be by default):

[root@machine /]# rpm -q mod_dav_svn

If you get any version number, ModDav is installed (maybe you can try an update via yum). If not launch yum and install it:

[root@machine /]# yum install mod_dav_svn

[root@machine /]# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

and check the presence of the WebDav lockfile by searching these lines:


# Location of the WebDAV lock database.
DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb


If not, add the lines above just afver the last tag.

In order prevent any httpd error message (like this) make sure that the line Include conf.d/*.conf is just after all the loaded modules.

Now create a directory inside the httpd document root to store calendar files (by default fc use /var/www, change the path in order to fit your installation):

mkdir /var/www/html/calendar

And now create a passwd directory:

mkdir -p /etc/httpd/passwd/

Now reload Apache:

service httpd restart

If you don’t get any error, open apache config file again:

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

and add the following lines just before the document root tag:


DAV On
AuthType Basic
AuthName "WebDAV Restricted"
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/passwd/passwords
require user webdav


Now restart Apache Again

service httpd restart

We’ll create a new user and pass to authenticate to the webserver. The username we will create should be limited to WebDAV operations only, in order to minimise the risk of your server being compromised.

Now create a password file:
htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/passwd/passwords webdav

In this example the password will be stored in a file called /etc/httpd/passwd/passwords, and the username required will be “webdav”.

Now create a Calendar Sample File:

vi /var/www/html/calendar/sample.ics

copy and paste these lines in the file:


BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Mozilla.org/NONSGML Mozilla Calendar V1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20051128T225803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20051128T225902Z
DTSTAMP:20051128T225803Z
UID:uuid1133218742734
SUMMARY:Calendar task from http://blog.soolid.it
PRIORITY:0
STATUS:
CLASS:PUBLIC
DTSTART:20051128T000000
DTEND:20071128T000000
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER;VALUE=DURATION:-PT15M
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR


save and exit.

Make sure that the file is owned by apache:
chown apache:apache /var/www/html/calendar/sample.ics
and chmod it 755
chmod 755 /var/www/html/calendar/sample.ics

Now Download and Install Mozilla Sunbird on your client machine(s) (or any other ical compatible client) and subscribe to remote calendar file by giving the exact location of the .ical file (es: http://myserverorip/calendar/sample.ics) using username and password provided during the installation.

Now you can subscribe/edit/ remote calendars.

You can add multiple calendars for your users.

Offcourse, if you want a calendar file in read only mode, just give the url without password to your users.

# # # # # # About this guide # # # # # #

To Do’s:

• Read the tutorial twice before publish
• Try a new clean installation to test

Reference
Some guides/howto/forum post that help me to write this guide>

• This Tutorial By Joost Soeterbroek
• WebDav HomePage

Credits / Copyright
Written by Alberto Alberti Released on 28/11/05 / - Last Update on 28/11/05
Original, updated, version can be found on blog.soolid.it
Licensed under Creative Commons License.

This is a usefull guide by Brandon Hutchinson to upgrade RedHat 9 or Fedora using Yum.