[horde] Installing Horde without shell access

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Hendrik Belitz <hbelitz at darkon.info>:

> I was pretty impressed after seeing Horde running on our local LAN  
> web server, so I decided to install the current Webmail Edition on  
> our internet webspace as well. My problem here is that I do not have  
> any kind of direct server access here. I can only access my webspace  
> via FTP and run PHP by calling the scripts in my web browser. Since  
> I don't have any kind of shell access (neither ssh nor rsh), I am  
> not able to run the setup scripts of Horde or the PHP interpreter  
> directly.
>
> My question now is: Is there any way to setup and configure Horde  
> without the shell scripts?

You'll need to make sure the webserver can write to the horde dir;  
what I'd do then is to upload via ftp an uncompressed install that has  
the default conf.php.dist file copied to conf.php. Then you can use  
the admin UI to write out the real conf file, etc.

-chuck

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