[horde] Installing Horde without shell access

[Hendrik Belitz]

Chuck Hagenbuch schrieb:
> 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. 
That's exactly what I did.
> Then you can use the admin UI to write out the real conf file, etc.
>
But how to get there? And what to do after I'm there? I did not find any 
kind of documentation about that.