Bug 1129002 - problem discovering calendars with radicale in non-root of Apache (fixed upstream)
Summary: problem discovering calendars with radicale in non-root of Apache (fixed upst...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: radicale
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Juan Orti
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-08-12 04:21 UTC by John Heidemann
Modified: 2014-08-27 01:35 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: radicale-0.9-1.fc20
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-08-27 01:35:43 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description John Heidemann 2014-08-12 04:21:14 UTC
Description of problem:
radicale's listing multiple calendars under a single user doesn't work
when radicale runs using apache for configuration,
IF radicale is not at the root of a virtual server.
(e.g., if it is at www.example.com/caldav/ instead of
caldav.example.com/).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
radicale-0.8-10.fc20.noarch


How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up radicale under a sub direcotry
2.giving www.example.com/caldav/user/
to acal (on android) checks out as caldav,
but it doesn't list any sub-calendars,
even if
www.example.com/caldav/user/foo.ics/
and
www.example.com/caldav/user/bar.ics/
exist.


Actual results:
see above

Expected results:
In acal, "list calendars" should find foo.ics and bar.ics.


Additional info:
why? apache strips off the /caldav/ base prefix.
Radicale then returns entries with short href's
(/user/, /user/foo.ics/, /user/bar.ics/)
in response to the PROPFIND Depth: 1 query during discovery.

But these hrefs are wrong... they're missing /caldav/.

One might think fixing this by putting 
base_prefix=/caldav/
in /etc/radicale/config 
would do the trick, but no:
because Apache strips that off, this config fails
the check "Path not starting with prefix"
in radicale.init.

Suggested fix:

add a new config parameter:
can_skip_base_prefix
that avoids this check. It all then works, provided this goes in the
config:
base_prefix=/caldav/
can_skip_base_prefix=True

Patch:

--- __init__.py-    2013-07-12 08:45:26.000000000 -0700
+++ __init__.py 2014-04-19 11:10:43.791856360 -0700
@@ -252,6 +252,8 @@
             environ["PATH_INFO"] = self.sanitize_uri(
                 "/%s" % environ["PATH_INFO"][len(base_prefix):])
             log.LOGGER.debug("Sanitized path: %s", environ["PATH_INFO"])
+        elif config.get("server", "can_skip_base_prefix"):
+            log.LOGGER.debug("skipped already sanitized path: %s", environ["PATH_INFO"])
         else:
             # Request path not starting with base_prefix, not allowed
             log.LOGGER.debug(
--- config.py-  2014-04-19 11:01:38.655498852 -0700
+++ config.py   2014-04-19 11:06:04.930683289 -0700
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
         "key": "/etc/apache2/ssl/server.key",
         "dns_lookup": "True",
         "base_prefix": "/",
+        "can_skip_base_prefix": "False",
         "realm": "Radicale - Password Required"},
     "encoding": {
         "request": "utf-8",

Th
is fix addresses two issues on
http://radicale.org/user_documentation/#idapache-and-mod-wsgi

the statement: "The [server] part of the configuration is ignored."
is not true. Giving a base_prefix is enforced.

The statement "You should use the root of the (sub)domain
(WSGIScriptAlias /), else some CalDAV features may not work." is true
and is the limitation I hit.
With the patch, this statement should change to :
"If you have a non-empty base_prefix, then you MUST set
"can_skip_base_prefix=True" in your config or some CalDAV features
(like discovering calendars) will not work.

This patch was accepted upstream, see https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/issues/147

However, the update radicale-0.8-10.fc20.noarch broke my copy patched by hand.
It's unclear when upstream will do a release, so if the maintainer is interested,
they may wish to apply this patch to fedora as well until the 0.9 release.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2014-08-14 10:12:49 UTC
radicale-0.9-1.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/radicale-0.9-1.fc20

Comment 2 John Heidemann 2014-08-14 16:58:05 UTC
thanks, looks fixed to me with radicale-0.9-1.fc20

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-08-16 00:32:40 UTC
Package radicale-0.9-1.fc20:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing radicale-0.9-1.fc20'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-9470/radicale-0.9-1.fc20
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-08-27 01:35:43 UTC
radicale-0.9-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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