[horde] fresh 3.2 installation shows frames exponentially

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Hello. I'm having a problem installing the latest Horde. /horde/test.php 
looks good, but when i browse to /horde/ to do the configuration, my 
web browser (tested with both Firefox and Konqueror) looks like it goes 
into a loop loading many frames. I have to kill the browser to make it 
stop. I'm sure i made some configuration error somewhere, but cannot 
figure out what it is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. A longer, 
more detailed description of what i've done follows.


This is on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 server with Apache 2.0.52, PHP 
4.3.9 and PostgreSQL 7.4.19. I'm actually currently running a Horde 
installation with these versions: Horde 3.1.7, Imp 4.1.6, Ingo 1.1.5, 
Turba 2.1.7.

Since the new versions (Horde 3.2, Imp 4.2, Ingo 1.2, Turba 2.2) all 
have a 2nd version number jump, i'm trying to do a fresh install on a 
separate (Apache) virtual host. Usually i do even minor updates on a 
separate virtual host on the same server, by copying the live 
installation to a separate directory, patching it, testing it, and if 
everything looks good, replacing the live installation with the 
freshly-patched version. I unpacked the new versions into a virtual 
host and read both the INSTALL and UPGRADING files. INSTALL listed a 
few PECL modules that i didn't already have, so i installed those. And 
as per the directions in UPGRADING, i added the new tables to the 
database.

After that, i tried viewing test.php. It looked great. The only things 
it complained about being missing were memcache and mysql support, 
neither of which i intend to use anyway. So at this point, in my 
virtual host i have a fresh install of Horde, Imp, Ingo, and Turba. 
Now, when i point a web browser to /horde/ on the server, i don't get 
the setup page as i'd expect. Instead, i see 2 frames. But then each of 
the 2 frames loads 2 more frames within itself. And each of those 2 
frames loads 2 more. That continues as long as i care to allow it. It 
quickly spirals out of control and i have to kill the web browser to 
recover. I've tried a non-graphical browser (lynx) and it displays the 
setup page, but since it doesn't support javascript i can't access most 
of the settings. Any idea what i've done wrong?

The only oddities in my configuration are that the virtual host i use 
for testing is running with SSL on port 81. So when i say i go 
to /horde/ on the server, the URL i actually type into my browser is 
https://webmail-test.drake.edu:81/horde/. It worked perfectly for test 
copies of the old installation though; i just had to set the port in 
conf.php. On the new installation i tried manually setting 
$conf['use_ssl'] = 1; and $conf['server']['port'] = 81; in conf.php to 
see if that was the problem, but it did nothing.

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Network Programmer/Analyst             2407 Carpenter Ave
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