[horde] Help for a novice?

[Valiante]

Hi John,

My host (IXWebhosting) use Horde as their default webmail interface, but I
don't believe it's the latest version.  As I have the ability to add
subdomains on my account and install any interface I want, I thought I'd
give it a go and as I'm already familiar with using Horde that seemed like a
good place to start.

I originally tried Squirrelmail but as this requires running a perl script
to configure it, I was unable to complete the installation.

I guess the main reason for doing this at all is because I want to learn -
and I figure the best way to learn is to just try it and see if I can get it
to work.  But after looking through the install instructions, it all began
to feel like learning Chinese - but then if I can get a few translations
thrown in by those who already speak the language, hopefully I'll be able to
get going!

Anyway, I appreciate your response - I'll certainly have a go at amending
the servers.php file as you suggest, but the only thing that still concerns
me is the amount of errors I get on the test.php page and also the fact that
I'm being automatically authenticated as Administrator when I go to the main
interface (http://webmail.valiante.co.uk).

Regards,

Valiante


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Chiu" <bigmanjohn at hotmail.com>
> To: <horde at lists.horde.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 4:22 PM
> Subject: [horde] Fw: Help for a novice?
>
>
>> hi
>>
>> if u only need basic webmail function, why useing horde?  i think u'd 
>> better off go for squirrelmail or openwebmail.
>>
>> if u don't have access to a command line, it's very hard for you to 
>> config any component of horde.
>>
>> horde framework + imp would not require any ldap or sql backends, the 
>> only thing is simply use the default values in configuring up
>> the horde framework and imp, and to edit the servers.php file in 
>> imp/config [plug in your umap server ip address] then you're ready
>> to go.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> ???: Valiante
>> ???: horde at lists.horde.org
>> ????: 2006?8?11? ?? 05:37
>> ??: [horde] Help for a novice?
>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm pretty new to all this and spent most of yesterday trying (and 
>> failing) to
>> get Horde up and running on my site.
>>
>> The main problem I have is my host doesn't give access to a command line 
>> so I'm
>> unable to run config scripts, etc.  Also I don't really know much (if 
>> anything)
>> about PHP, LDAP, SQL, or my web server's components or their versions (or 
>> how
>> to find out what they are).
>>
>> I've now gone back to square one, put all the files back to default and 
>> removed
>> all the *.dist extensions from the files in the config directory, in the 
>> hope
>> that you guys on the mailing list may be able to guide me, step by step, 
>> into
>> getting this up and running.
>>
>> For now all I want is the basic webmail functionality.  For now (until 
>> DNS
>> updates) the site is accessible only through the IP.  Here's a link to 
>> the test
>> page;
>>
>> http://66.116.204.2/test.php
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Valiante.
>>
>>
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