[dev] Fwd: Problems installing Horde CVS HEAD

[Jon Parise]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:01:21PM +0100, Marko Djukic wrote:

> As I am not using the latest HEAD I did a CVS update -Pd of all modules
> I am using and tried to reconfigure as per instructions.
> 
> I created and edited the conf.php from the conf.php.dist and copied all
> the *.php.dist to *.php.  In the conf.php I selected the DataTree
> backend to be 'sql' and checked that no changes had been made to the
> Horde database (although my horde_categories table is an empty set) by
> comparing the schema of the mysql_create.sql with my db.
> 
> I did a php -q install_packages.php from the framework directory and
> everything was created ok in /usr/local/lib/php/Horde.
> 
> So I opened my browser and went to horde and got the following message
> 
> A fatal error has occurred
> You must configure a DataTree backend to use Horde.
> Details have been logged for the administrator.
 
I ran into this briefly last night when I was setting up a new Horde
installation.  In my case, I simply had my database parameters
specified incorrectly.  Double-check all of your settings in conf.php.

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