[horde] Groupware Webmail Edition: install without shell access

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Sun Jan 28 03:23:56 PST 2007


Zitat von 77sm6rm02 at sneakemail.com:

> Hi,
> I've been trying to install Groupware Webmail Edition on my webhost  
> account, but I've run into a problem.
>
> To configure the database backend I need to run the setup.php  
> script. However, the webhosting account I have doesn't have any sort  
> of shell access so I'm not able to run the script.  The closest  
> thing I can think of is running command line instructions through  
> PHP via a PHP shell. However since this method won't work with  
> scripts which require input while running, which, unfortunately,  
> setup.php is I'm rather stuck at this point.
>
> Can anyone suggest a method where I can setup Groupware Webmail  
> Edition without shell access?  Maybe manually editing configuration  
> files is an option, but it seems the settings are spread out among a  
> number of files and I can't seem to locate the majority of them.   
> However even if I find those files, executing the database creation  
> scripts without shell access would be a problem.

Install the Horde modules separately. Don't use the bundle.

> As a side note, I would great if a web based PHP setup script was  
> made available in future release for those of us without shell access.

Patch?

Jan.

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