[Cosmo-dev] New user, perplexed: CalDAV interface with Cosmo

[Don Levey]

I'm a new user of Cosmo, and not much of a programmer, so please bear with
me.  First, I want to explain my goal, in case I'm on the wrong track and/or
someone has other suggestions.

I have a small home network.  I want to maintain a centralised family
calendar so that we can look in one place for scheduled commitments for me,
my wife, and my kids.  I am trying to standardise on Evolution as a client,
as it seems to have what I need (*and* be free from MS).  Ideally, I'd like
us all to access the same calendar and server, and make our individual
changes centrally.  Someone suggested Cosmo and CalDAV; from what I've read
this seems like the correct solution.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the interface going.  I have installed
the OSAF bundle (0.3) and am able to login as root, and to create user
accounts and login.  I'm creating a 'shared' user for the purpose of the
shared calendar.  I have noticed a few problems:

* Setting the URL in Evolution as caldav://FQDN:port/cosmo/home/shared
doesn't allow me to enter/view anything (but then there's nothing to view
yet).  Specifying a filename at the end of that URL doesn't seem to help.
What I seem to get in the access.log are 401, 409 and 411 errors.

* I thought perhaps I needed to create a base calendar, so I tried to login
to Scooby.  However, I cannot.  When I enter my (valid, works in Cosmo) ID I
just get presented with the login page again.  Looking in the log, I seem to
have invoked the loginfailed.js script, but nothing else seems to happen.

* The person who recommended Cosmo to me said that I should see a Scooby
object when browsing the home directory via the web interface.  However, I
do not - just a directory empty of files and tickets.

What have I done wrong?  Thanks in advance,
 -Don Levey