ICal publishing and invite

I sent out an invite for my calendar and people got that they needed a password and user name. I don't want to give them my username and password. Can I invite them to see the calendar without giving this to them?

An interesting though I also had, but never took the time to actually try. It's still very annoying that Apple is not capable of fixing this bug that has been posted on Radar last November and by then already was marked duplicate...
Here is the redict rule that helped me:
With serverAdmin in your Site configuration create an entry in the Aliases section of your host.
Type: Redirect Match
Pattern: (.*)\.ics
Path: https://myhost.example.com$1.ics
Replace the part in italics with your host and domain. Please reagard that you don't need to mention any path for subfolders where you calendar files may reside in. (I use phpicalendar to have a (view only) webinterface for the calendars I publish and subscribe with collegues)
This Redirect Match will only redirect direct access to .ics files like iCal does or if you download them with a browser. It will not affect the way phpicalendar uses these files to display it's webview of these calendars.
MacLemon
Thanks jcw9 for finally trying this out.

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