Installing Baikal CalDAV calendar server on Raspberry Pi

In this post we will set up a lightly prepared Raspberry Pi to serve a calDAV calendar. We have previously looked at doing this on a Synology NAS, and overall, Baikal requires very similar steps taken to work on a different platform such as a Raspberry Pi.

There are a few things we will need right off the bat:

PHP5:

sudo apt-get install php5 php5-xmlrpc php5-curl

Apache2:

sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5

Sqlite:

sudo apt-get install php5-sqlite

In the /var/www folder, download and extract the "flat" package from Baikal's website:

sudo wget http://baikal-server.com/get/baikal-flat-0.2.7.zip
sudo unzip baikal-flat-0.2.7.zip
sudo mv baikal-flat/ baikal/
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data baikal/
sudo chmod 755 baikal
cd baikal/
sudo chmod 755 Specific/
sudo chmod 755 Specific/db
sudo chmod 755 Specific/db/db.sqlite
sudo touch Specific/ENABLE_INSTALL

Once that's done, load up your Pi's IP address, http://192.168.0.xx/baikal/admin/install, and follow the Baikal install. Refer to this post from the Initialization Wizard steps onward if things get confusing.