[horde] Progress with "You must configure a Category backend to use Horde." error

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Bo Daley <bo at tilda.com.au>:

> one thing you can try when you're testing out whether your conf.php is
> free of syntax errors is to do add something like this right at the end of
> your conf.php file:
>
>    var_dump($conf); exit;
>
> if you get a NULL value then you most definitely have a problem with your
> conf.php file and Horde will not be able to find any configuration values.
> Or if you do see something other than NULL, make sure that it contains
> some kind of configuration for categories.

Another great way is to run php in lint mode (assuming you have a standalone
php, which at least one of the people having this problem does.  Basically
do a:

php -l conf.php

and see if it returns any errors to either the screen or the log file
depening on how your php error logging is enabled.

It often finds problems that I can't find with my eyes looking over the code.

--
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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