[horde] Newbie doing initial horde installation

[Jason Clifton]

I would definitely use a different mysql user and password than the  
root account.
There really is not that much that has to be configured.  Under  
Horde->Database you need to configure that with your mysql  
information.  Horde->Authentication needs to be done you probably want  
sql with Horde defaults there (horde defaults are what you just  
entered in Horde->Database).  Horde -> Preference system sql with  
horde defaults, see a pattern yet? Horde-> Datatree sql with horde  
defaults. Horde -> Groups set to Datatree. Custom session handler you  
can set this to mysql and reenter your connection information, then  
make sure use row level locking is not checked or you can set this to  
PHP file based sessions. Everything else under horde should be ok for  
now with defaults.

Turba, I think that the defaults should all work here, but you may  
need to set the Virtual File Storage, I think in  your case Files on  
the local system, and you can set the second setting to wherever your  
tmp directory is or a directory with 777 permissions.

That should cover everything.
Quoting Eric <spamsink at scoot.netis.com>:

> 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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