[Joel]

Originally Posted by lhotka

Why not have OmniFocus itself run a WebDAV server?

It is quite possible to approximate this already, it will require enabling the WebDAV server on the desktop machine that you have OmniFocus 1.1 (for Mac) installed.

Go to Manas Tungare's blog page, follow the instructions there, and in OmniFocus 1.1 set syncing to that location. Do the same on the iPhone.

The upshot of this is that you can come home from wherever you were, boot or wake up your desktop, wait a tic and then sync from the iPhone.

The downside of this is that if the desktop is sleeping or off, when you're away you'll get error notifications that the server isn't available, that sort of thing.

[wheeles]

Originally Posted by Joel

Go to Manas Tungare's blog page, follow the instructions there, and in OmniFocus 1.1 set syncing to that location. Do the same on the iPhone.

That site is offline (probably all the OmniFocus users trying to access it). Could someone put together a HOWTO and have it as a sticky in the forums?

[Lizard]

That site seems to be back up now.

[behnt]

Maybe you did say you needed WebDAV or iDisk but it is not apparent. I purchased the iPod touch upgrade and Omni Focus assuming it would work by simply installing it now I am faced with having to set up a WebDAV which would not work in my case as I carry my laptop around with me or am working in bootcamp and need to see my Omni Focus so I am stuck with having to purchase iDisk or Mobile me and feel like I am being nickled and dimed here.

To be honest I feel ripped off.

I am in love with omnifocus and omni group but I am VERY disappointed with this situation.

How do I ask for a refund on the upgrade and the omni foucs app?

Likely I am stuck with the cost for something I cannot use and to say I am disappointed is an understatement.

Thanks omni, thanks..... :(

[Brian]

Behnt - sorry for the confusion here; we didn't intend for anyone to be confused or feel ripped off, obviously. We tried to make the requirements clear, but it's definitely still confusing to folks. If you can suggest any wording changes on our pages or the App Store that would have helped, we're interested in hearing about it.

MobileMe offers a free 60-day trial. By the time that free trial is up, we'll have had some time to work around some of the problems preventing folks from using one of the other free file-storage services that are available.

If you don't want to have to worry about remembering to shut off the MobileMe trial, we're hearing that folks have been using bingodisk.com quite successfully; that service is $20/year instead of $100/year.

If none of those options work for you, you should contact Apple - at the very least, let them know that the option to do a wired sync would be helpful to you.

Again, very sorry for the confusion and distress.

[lhotka]

Originally Posted by Joel

It is quite possible to approximate this already, it will require enabling the WebDAV server on the desktop machine that you have OmniFocus 1.1 (for Mac) installed.

The downside of this is that if the desktop is sleeping or off, when you're away you'll get error notifications that the server isn't available, that sort of thing.

The real downside is that since HTTPS doesn't work, I'll have an open web server on my mac when on a public network, subject to sniffing, which is totally unacceptable.

I refuse to pay $100/year for a .mac account just to sync OF (the rest is a total waste as I already have a website hosted on a real provider - that blocks WebDAV because of security issues). Other third-party WebDAV providers seem to have a ton of compatibility issues with OF, and/or don't offer secure connections.

Maybe Omnigroup should host a secure WEBDAV server on your domain that we can subscribe to ($10/year) just for OmniFocus syncing.

[Kovar]

Good morning,

I am running both OF and iOF against an Apache server configured for DAV support on port 443.

My own server.
Secure connection.
Everything syncs.

Took awhile, but here we are and I'm happy.

-David

[lhotka]

On your own Mac? How'd you get around the certificate issues?

[Kovar]

Good afternoon,

I'm running a WebDAV server on a Linux box running Apache at our office. I used the blog posting found in one of the stickies above to set it up, with a few modifications. We're using a self signed cert and the most recent release of iOF enabled support for these.

The initial sync had some UI problems, but if I ignored those, went into settings, ACK'd the settings as correct and then hit sync, it sync'd.

-David