[horde] Newbie doing initial horde installation

[Eric]

At 02:09 PM 11/2/2006, Jason Clifton wrote:

<JC>>>>>After you do the mysql stuff and you go to the horde (on the web) 
for the first time, it will tell you to that you need to generate your 
config files.  There will be an Administration->Setup tab on the left 
menu.  Click that you'll need to go through the setup for all the 
applications listed there<<<<<

HOLY %^%$!!  :-)

Wow, there's a lot of stuff there to configure!  <shudder> <tremble>  :-)

I have no idea what to put in about 98 percent of the stuff there.

Is there any documentation that describes those config items from a horde / 
turba perspective and lists how to configure them?  I know that a few of 
them include links to click on to get a web page that explains them, but 
only a very few... most of them just ask a question with no hint as to what 
might be the "right" answer.

I can guess at a few of them and some of the others, like Kolab Groupware 
Server, are clearly not applicable, but I can see lots and lots of 
potential for screwing things up like you read about. <gulp>

Should I set up a separate MySQL account for myself, with administrator 
rights, or should I just use "Administrator" to handle things?

Should I set up both of the superuser passwords in MySQL first, before I 
mess with any of the horde / turba stuff, or does that get taken care of in 
the horde setups under Authentication?  In other words can I put what I 
want in Authentication->"The password to use for the user's credentials", 
or is that supposed to match up with one of the MySQL superuser passwords?

Are the things that are marked with a red star mandatory, and everything 
else optional?

Also not sure about what exactly is meant by "store and validate the IP 
address of the client"... if that means doing a reverse DNS lookup to 
verify that the IP address corresponds with a real hostname as known to 
DNS, then I can see lots of potential for failure there from hosts whose 
IPs aren't registered with DNS.

Sure is a lot to do here... ;-)


Eric Poole
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