[horde] Help with login problem

[Doug Curtis]

A couple of things:

1. Did you run the sql script in the scripts dir to setup the tables?

2. I had a similar problem and it ended up that it kept looking for the 
mysql.sock in /tmp instead of where it was. (/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock)

Doug


Quoting Admin-Stress <meerkapot at yahoo.com>:

> Hi, maybe this is old question, but I cant find any resources.
> 
> I installed:
> - horde 2.2
> - imp 3.1
> - php 4.3.0
> - redhat 8.0
> 
> imap and pop3 are working fine, I can access it via mail client (mutt and
> outlook express).
> 
> But, when I login into imp, I got this error :
> 
> A fatal error has occurred:
> 
> DB Error: connect failed
> 
> [line 108 of /var/www/vhost/example.com/htdocs/horde/lib/Prefs/sql.php]
> 
> Details have been logged for the administrator.
> 
> I review ../config/horde.php for mysql details :
> 
> $conf['prefs']['driver'] = 'sql';
> $conf['prefs']['params'] = array();
> $conf['prefs']['params']['phptype'] = 'mysql';
> $conf['prefs']['params']['hostspec'] = 'localhost';
> $conf['prefs']['params']['username'] = 'horde';
> $conf['prefs']['params']['password'] = 'horde';
> $conf['prefs']['params']['database'] = 'horde';
> $conf['prefs']['params']['table'] = 'horde_prefs';
> 
> And I can connect to mysql like this :
> 
> # mysql -D horde -h localhost -u horde -p
> 
> With password=horde
> 
> Here is line 108 of sql.php :
> 
>             /* Connect to the SQL server using the supplied parameters. */
>             include_once 'DB.php';
>             $this->db = &DB::connect($this->params, true);
>             if (DB::isError($this->db)) {
> 108--->         Horde::fatal($this->db, __FILE__, __LINE__);
>             }
> 
> I checked pear DB module, and it's installed :
> 
>    # pear install DB
>    DB already installed
> 
> 
> Please help me, this is my frist time installing imp.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> kapot
> 
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