1. Why don't my passwords work?
Answer: Please check very closely that you have your httpd.conf (older Apache
installation use access.conf) file for Apache (or similar for a
different webserver) configured as instructed in the README. Make
sure to use the right directory for your situation, and be sure to
restart httpd. After checking your Apache configuration, if passwords
do not work, please check your Apache configuratin again! A lot of
people have had password problems at first, but every one has turned
out to be an error in configuration on their webserver!
Top2. Why doesn't my admin (or other user) password work?
Answer: Can you log in as other users? For example, create a private calendar
with a username and password. Access that private calendar, and add
an event. You should be prompted for a username/password when accessing
the calendar, if the username/password you supply works, then passwords
in general are working. If not, passwords are not working, you have a
configuration error in your webserver config files. So if it is just the
admin password that is giving you problems, then odds are you are
entering an incorrect password for the admin username, or else the admin
entry in the .htpasswd file is not present. Either way, you can use the
apache utility called "htpasswd" to add an updated username/password
entry for the admin account. Do a "man htpasswd" at the unix prompt to
figure out how to use the htpasswd utitlity. The .htpasswd file that
WebCal uses is stored in the database directory, usually /var/webcal.
Top3. How do I access the admin functions?
Answer: You must log in as user "admin". The initial password for user "admin"
is "admin". When logged in as admin, you can access any calendar with
write permission, so it is a good idea to log out when you are done
doing admin related tasks. To logout, hit the logout link, and enter
a username and password of "nobody".
Top4. How do I access the "US Holiday" calendar?
Answer: The "US Holiday" calendar shipped with webcal has a number of common
holidays in it. The initial username/password for it is
usholiday/usholiday.
Top5. Is it possible to merge two calendar databases together into one?
Answer: Use the db_merge.pl script provided in the webcal tar file.Top
6. How can I easily get to the current year/month/week/day?
Answer: The links to the different views are somewhat intelligent. This is
best illustrated by an example.
1. Going from any month view to current week: One click on the month
view link brings you to the 1st week in that month. Once you are in
the week view, another click on the week view link brings you to the
current week.
Basically, you are never more than two clicks away from the current
year/month/week/day. The first click brings you into the view, and
anytime you click on a link to a view you are already in, it brings you
to the current date for that view.
Top7. Why can't I edit/delete items in calendars that I have subscribed to?
Answer: Any calendars you subscribe to are read only while in your calendar.
To edit them, you must log in as the user specified for that calendar,
or be logged in as the admin user. Future releases may include
the ability to write to subscribed to calendars based on rights given.
Top8. Why must I reload the pages to see my changes when using MSIE?
Answer: MSIE caches cgi output. The solution:
In MSIE, select:
(View/Internet Options/Settings/Every Visit To The Page)
In MSIE 5 select:
(Tools/Internet Options/General/Settings/Every Visit To The page)
This will cause IE to check for updated versions of the pages upon
every visit, instead of just caching the CGI output.
Top9. How can I import my old flat file database into my new mysql webcal database?
Answer: Use the rdb2mysql.pl script found in the util directory of the distrubution
tarball.
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