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This is a short guide on adding CardDAV support for the Roundcube address book. I intend on using owncloud to provide the CardDAV backend.

Download rcmcarddav¶

• Clone the rcmcarddav repository:
  

  cd /usr/local/www/roundcube/plugins
  git clone https://github.com/blind-coder/rcmcarddav.git
  mv rcmcarddav carddav
  cd carddav
  

• Install php56-phar and php56-curl:
  

  pkg install php56-phar
  

• Download composer and install the rcmcarddav dependencies
  

  curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
  php composer.phar install
  

• Create the initial config.inc.php:
  

  cp config.inc.php.dist config.inc.php
  

• Edit the plugin config file:
  

  vi /usr/local/www/roundcube/plugins/carddav/config.inc.php
  

  • And add the following to the bottom of the file:
    

    $prefs['db_version'] = 2;
    

• Remove all occurrences of TABLE_PREFIX from the dbinit sql file:
  

  sed -i '' -e 's/TABLE_PREFIX//g' /usr/local/www/roundcube/plugins/carddav/dbmigrations/0000-dbinit/postgres.sql
  

• Initialize the database:
  

  psql -h pg.example.com -U roundcubeuser -W -d roundcubedb < /usr/local/www/roundcube/plugins/carddav/dbmigrations/0000-dbinit/postgres.sql
  

• Set the ownership of the plugin to www:
  

  chown -R www:www /usr/local/www/roundcube/plugins/carddav/
  

• Edit the main roundcube config file:
  

  vi /usr/local/www/roundcube/config/config.inc.php
  

  • And add carddav to the plugins section:
    

    $config['plugins'] = array(
        'archive',
        'zipdownload',
        'managesieve',
        'password',
        'carddav',
    );
    

• Login to Roundcube and set-up your first CardDAV address book by accessing Settings -> Settings -> CardDAV

Resources¶

• https://plugins.roundcube.net/packages/roundcube/carddav
• https://github.com/blind-coder/rcmcarddav/blob/master/INSTALL
• https://github.com/blind-coder/rcmcarddav/