[horde] Trying to decide if I should use Horde and Imp

[Daniel Eckl]

The documentation of horde is included in the specific modules. Every module has
it's own subdirectory named docs. I'm sure this will help a long way. You can
browse the modules online with the webcvs on horde.org to read the docs with
your browser.

I cannot tell you if Windows is a reliable system for horde. I don't want to say
windows is bad and such silly statements. I don't like it, but that's my
problem. So I want to think about this from a neutral point of view. My
thoughts are: Apache was developed on unix and ported to windows. Compatibility
doesn't have to be 100%. I know this from perl...

The same goes for PHP and even for Horde. Both is developed on linux primarily
and I read many posts in many forums that there are lots of possibilities that
some php code will fail entirely on windows while running fine on linux. Only
think of paths and so on.

I know that Horde devs are doing a hard job in writing Horde platform
independent. But there are many contact points from the php code through all
the pieces of software down to the system where this may break (perhaps only in
the future after an minor update).

Well, installing and configuring Horde can be some kind of tricky IMHO. Only if
you have in deep knowledge of the underlying technologies like apache, php and
your IMAP server, then you can configure Horde without problems. But if you
have to learn the secret tricks of apache and PHP and Horde all at the same
time then it's difficult. And whe some problems with windows specific options
are added to this mixture, then all could blow up rather easy...

Well I know that the apache people say that apache for windows does not perform
as fast and stable like on unices. If the apache dev's say such words then this
has to be a fact.

And on the other hand, apache, php, mysql and horde don't need a killer machine,
especially in an experimental environment. So i would do this:

Use a test machine running linux to get the feeling for apache, php, mysql and
horde and if you have managed all the problems here (like max execution time,
upload limits, session handlers, memory limits etc. pp. and so on), then try to
move it to windows platform if you need and want to.

Hope that I could help with these private opinions.

Greets,
Daniel


Zitat von Charles Cosby <charles at charlesandjudy.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I have been looking through your site and news groups and trying to decide
> if the Horde Application Framework is what I am looking for.  For starters I
> should tell you that I am not a programmer.  I have programmed in my younger
> years and actually did it for a living but still do not consider myself a
> coder.  I thought I might tell you what I have and what I want to do and
> maybe someone here can help me decide if this is the right avenue for me.
>
> I have a home based server with a fixed IP address and domain name.  The
> server is as follows:
>
> Compaq ProLiant 5500
> 4 - PIII Xeon 550 Processors
> 1024 Meg Ram
> 8 - Hot swap SCSI drives
> SMART 3200 RAID Controller
> And everything else that goes with it
>
> Operating system is Windows 2000 Advanced Server.  I tried for months to get
> FreeBSD to work but it never would work on more than one CPU with the RAID,
> I could get one or the other to work, never both.  Apparently it was a bug
> with later versions and so far I haven't heard of it being fixed....
>
> For software I am running the following:
> MailEnable 1.71
> Apache 2.0.48
> PHP 4.3.4 + PEAR
> Perl 5.8.0
> SQLite 2.8.6
> Openssl 0.9.7
> MySQL 4.0.16
> mod_php 4.3.4
> mod_perl 1.99_10
> mod_ssl  2.0.48
> FileZilla 0.8.5
>
> What I would like is to use Horde and IMP to be able to both manage my
> server and have users (the 3 of us) to be able to have access to web mail.
> I have read through the documents and have found them incredibly inciteful
> as far as the end user is concerned but could not find much in the way of
> installation instructions.  I there somewhere I could go to find these?  I
> know that Horde is probably overkill for my situation but I do set up
> networks for other companies and primarily use mine for experimantation with
> the new software available.  I would like to learn it and in the end be able
> to support it.
>
> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance
> for your time.
>
> Chuck Cosby
>
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