iOS sync caldav and carddav sync

[swingley.fischer]

Hello,

I am pretty new to owncloud and self-hosting. I have setup a bluehost server and added a subdomain for my owncloud server. It installed fine and I am able to sync my contacts and calendar on my laptop with KDE Kontact. However, I am not able to make it work on iOS.

What I have tried is to add another account on iOS under Settings → Contacts → Accounts → Add Account.

I always get a “Account verification failed”, however I can log in with Safari pointing to remote.php/dav.

Can somebody help me diagnose this problem?

[michaelstingl]

Detailed instructions here:

• iOS - Synchronize iPhone/iPad

[swingley.fischer]

I followed these instructions without success. On the troubleshooting site, I looked into the well-known addresses and could see that I can access them from the browser.

[tom42]

Hey,

i think it could help if more details like where the data is put in, in which form and similar is provided. I think this could help that others are better able to help.

[swingley.fischer]

So this is the error message I got on my phone (iPhone 7, iOS 15.8):

This form can be accessed under Settings → Contacts → Account → Add Account → Other → Add CardDav Account

In the server field I entered owncloud.domain.com/remote.php/dav/principals/users/philipp/

For the owncloud Server, I did the following:

• I added a submain owncloud.domain.com in cPanel, which gave me a ~/owncloud.domain.com folder.
• I ssh into the server, cd ~/owncloud.domain.com into to the dir and ran wget https://download.owncloud.com/server/stable/owncloud-complete-20231121.zip. The archive I extracted with unzip owncloud-complete-20231121.zip
• I changed the root of the domain to ~/owncloud.domain.com/owncloud. And changed the php Version to 7.4 with a cPanel tool. The latter created a ~/owncloud.domain.com/.htaccess file pointing to the correct php Version.
• I added a mySQL database with the cPanel tool, and ran the setup of owncloud pointing my browser to owncloud.domain.com
• Lastly, I added my first user philipp
• I could also add contacts sync in KDE using the server address owncloud.domain.com/remote.php/dav

[alfredb]

Can you log in from your mobile using the browser?

[swingley.fischer]

Yes, that works perfectly:

[alfredb]

What is perfect with a white screen? I’d expect either the login screen or the files app screen.

[swingley.fischer]

Oh I logged into owncloud.domain.com/remote.php/dav/principals/users/philipp/ to see if the CalDAV thing is really working. Here is the the screen after I logged in on owncloud.domain.com:

[alfredb]

OK, then this seems to work. But the header is somewhat irritating, at least for me as non-apple guy.

[alfredb]

I assume you did follow the advices from the docs.

If the iPhone is unable to verify the account information perform the following steps:

• Select OK.
• Select Advanced Settings.
• If your server does not support SSL, make sure Use SSL is set to OFF.
• Change port to 80.

Go back to account information and click Save.

[swingley.fischer]

Oh I see! So this error is not actually an error! I see it works now. Thank you so much!