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by The Sixth Level - Jan 15th 2007 10:25:47
WOW! A 3-year-old application that still works perfectly? that's unheard
of. This is a solid application which provides my family exactly what we
needed....
... except ... we are moving from a free web-based calendar which allowed
users to define new categories (name, fore/back color) and this was a BIG
help, having 3 kids. We could color code everything, then be able to see
whose bills were due (based on shade of red), which kid had a play (based
on three more color combinations), etc.
Would it be hard to add user-definable categories?
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Installation problem.
by vanbao - Jan 2nd 2007 12:30:57
For the last couple of days, I have been trying to install it on my website
which I host it with an online company. The server runs linux.
I made all the changes in the installl.pl file and run it. For some
reason, I keep running into problems.
Please see attach image file for the error messages. If you can help me
install this program, it will be a huge new year present for me. Thank
you.
+++++++++++ install server "default_server" ++++++++++++
cp /tmp/wcal1167769592
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/langdienloc.com/cgi-bin/wcal/webcalConfig.pm
chown -R nobody
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/langdienloc.com/wcal/server1
Command failed: No such file or directory == Trying to continue
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chown -R nobody
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/langdienloc.com/wcal/images/uploads
Command failed: No such file or directory == Trying to continue
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chown -R nobody
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/langdienloc.com/wcal/images/uis
Command failed: No such file or directory == Trying to continue
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chown -R nobody
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/langdienloc.com/wcal/images/css
Command failed: No such file or directory == Trying to continue
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cp
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/langdienloc.com/cgi-bin/wcal/transparent.css-tmp
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/langdienloc.com/cgi-bin/wcal/transparent.css
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Nice work
by Chris - Nov 4th 2005 15:29:09
I have researched and test drove many calendars and found that this webcal
has close to everything I was looking for.
My concern is with the performance of the app as the data file grows with
events. Has anyone noticed any performance issues with a calendar that is
heavily populated?
Thanks for the great work.
Chris
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more flexible than anything else out there -- but a HORRIBLE name
by Jason R. McVetta - Dec 16th 2004 22:00:29
My client needed different group-based levels of access to shared resource
calendars, as well as a general-purpose calendaring system.
I spent many weeks trying different group calendaring systems --
phprojekt, opengroupware, phpgroupware, tutos, mrbs, the *other* webcal --
and could not hammer any of them into exactly meeting my requirements.
With webCal, it still wasn't completely easy, but it was doable without
re-writing anything. That made me happy.
One bad thing about it: the name. "WebCal" is the absolutely
most generic, easily-confused name one could imagine for this product.
Please, please rename it to something more distinct!
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Really great calendar system
by Kjeld - Apr 24th 2004 00:03:43
It was easy to install the system and I had it up running in a matter of
minutes.
This is really outstanding. The clever usage of Javascript combined with
powerful Perl scripts makes this system something special.
I installed version 2.8.8 and it runs flawlessly.
Try it! It's worth the effort.
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web calendar
by Giampos - Dec 16th 2003 06:46:27
16-12-2003 Great Software, very simple and user friendly, good for
groupware, only a thing.....
about the users right and permission admin and managing....it can be
better! ...and everyone can create a calendar in internet?
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Absolutely the best!
by Vijay Avarachen - Oct 31st 2003 14:12:45
I had reviewed this project in mid Jan 2002 and I was not very pleased with
its performance. The author informed me that I needed mod_perl running but
I never got around to installing it or trying it out.
At my company I got an opportunity to set up a group calendar and right
away I came back to this project. This product has improved dramatically.
My whole department is amazed with this product.
The downside of the project is its lack of LDAP interface (for
authentication as well as addressbook). Also it will be nice if it could
integrate some kind of a mail interface into the calendar system. Large
scale imports from outlook would also be nice (currently you can do one
event at a time). The UI (specially the options and admin) can really use
some better arrangement and color scheme.
--
Vijay Avarachen
http://www.dggcentral.net
"Knowledge is the only wealth, that grows as you share it,
and decreases as you save it up. "
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Simply Great!
by Snay Trivedi - Apr 29th 2003 11:16:09
Great work on the Calendar, easy to install and use. Just wondering though
if anyone had other CSS sheets that they have created for WebCalendar, and
would not mind sharing them. I have tried to modify the original, but its
a bit tougher than my novice skills can handle.
Still great work though!
--
Snay J Trivedi
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Re: Simply Great!
by vanbao - Jan 2nd 2007 02:33:25
Hi, can you please help.
I spent hours trying to install this program and can not seem to get it to
work. For some reasons, it is trying to create the upload, css, and uis
folders, it get stuck right there.
Here are the messages:
cp /tmp/wcal1167733117
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/maikasolutions.com/cgi-bin/wcal/webcalConfig.pm
chown -R
nobody
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/maikasolutions.com/cgi-bin/wcal/data
Command failed: No such file or directory
== Trying to
continue ==
chown -R nobody
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/maikasolutions.com/calendar/images/uploads
Command failed: No such file or directory
== Trying to
continue ==
chown -R nobody
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/maikasolutions.com/calendar/images/uis
Command failed: No such file or directory
== Trying to
continue ==
chown -R nobody
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/maikasolutions.com/calendar/images/css
Command failed: No such file or directory
== Trying to
continue ==
cp
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/maikasolutions.com/cgi-bin/wcal/transparent.css-tmp
/hsphere/local/home/vanbao/maikasolutions.com/cgi-bin/wcal/transparent.css
If you can help me install this, I would be most grateful.
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Wonderful
by Jesse Adelman - Feb 7th 2003 15:07:24
Hi, all. Just finishing a contract to install, deploy and train about 10
high-energy users on WebCal. It rocks! And I saved them a pile of cash by
using two old Dell XPSs w/ Red Hat Linux 7.3 + all patches. Turned on SSL
and, viola, a reasonably secure calendaring system.
The users on the mailing lists are very helpful, and the author is not an
"ivory tower"-style developer. Many organizations, both large
and small, have deployed Web Calendar, and it just works!
FYI: some info about the setup I used:
-Used two Dell XPS, one in service (PIII 450Mhz), the other as backup(PII
400Mhz)
-Used stock RedHat RPMS for Apache/mod_perl
-Set up SSL for remote users (port 80 blocked to the Internet)
-Set up backup to be same setup
-Set up cron script to do daily date-stamped backups of WebCal + Apache
config files
-Set cron job for rsync of WebCalendar directories + backup files
-Using Big Brother to monitor and page for trouble
-Trained users on use, and gave special training to PDA users (doing
one-way import to Palm Desktop 4.1 - users have to use the "Delete
Duplicates" add-in every time, no big deal)
Only caveats:
- Wish RSVP would be automatic when inviting other users to meetings
-More authentication options
Many users love the "Daily E-mail Reminders", and the Compare
Calendar features are excellent. Great work! - and thanks!
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Great software
by Carsten Emde - Dec 1st 2002 08:06:46
I found WebCal to be an excellent piece of software. Easy to install, easy
to use, self-explaining user interface, a full set of functions. Thanks a
lot - really great work.
The only think I could ever imagine I may miss some day is LDAP support.
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Great project
by Mr-Pope - Jan 31st 2002 14:25:32
I just wanted to say that I think that Web Calendar is really great. I
never realized how much I used it and relied on it until I fried my
web-server, and now I need to build another one just for this!
Keep up the good work.
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Good features....horrible execution time
by Vijay Avarachen - Jan 15th 2002 01:23:12
This calendar has some very very cool features and full of customization
but the execution time of the code is very very slow.
--
Vijay Avarachen
http://www.dggcentral.net
"Knowledge is the only wealth, that grows as you share it,
and decreases as you save it up. "
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Re: Good features....horrible execution time
by mzou - Jan 15th 2002 09:39:12
> This calendar has some very very cool
> features and full of customization but
> the execution time of the code is very
> very slow.
You really need to run it under mod_perl.
Apache mod_perl makes the cgi scripts part
of your webserver, so no loading/compiling
is needed on every invocation. It will make
webcal an order of magnitude faster. I have
a demo
server running on a PII 300 with 128MB of
memory. Take a look you'll see the difference.
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Installation on Red Hat systems and Product review
by Vijay Avarachen - Dec 6th 2001 08:24:24
I saw AragonX's message regarding difficulty installing webcal on RH
system. This is mostly due to the fact that RH has a bad habit of
installing softwares in non-standard location. The standard location for
Apache is /usr/local/apace but in RH its at /var/www . So anyone
installing this GREAT product on RH system make sure you change the
following (with a simple find and replace in a good editor):
/usr/local/apache ---> /var/www
/usr/local/apache/htdocs ---> /var/www/html
/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin ---> /var/www/cgi-bin
Also I think the installation could have been a lot more easier and
smoother if the autor defines a variable in which we can specify the path
to apace, htdocs (he does mention it in the comments). Also having a
variable to change the full path from http://localhost/ to
http://$hostname/ would help.
Its just a matter of reading the comments carefully. This is a great
product with a breeze of an installation. I recomment it to everyone. It
could definitly use some minor changes (mostly asthetics). Sweet job dude!
Vijay Avarachen
--
Vijay Avarachen
http://www.dggcentral.net
"Knowledge is the only wealth, that grows as you share it,
and decreases as you save it up. "
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Can't get it to work on Red Hat 7.1
by AragonX - Oct 26th 2001 21:21:14
I'll admit that I'm not much of a programmer. I've tried and tried to get
this to work on my system. I think it has something to do with the way
Red Hat has the cgi-bin directory outside the html directory. Well, maybe
not. Anyway, I can't get any of the pages to come up. Installation may be
easier on other distros.
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