[horde] Login Problems - Horde Groupware Webmail v1.2.3 [RESOLVED]

[Duane Hill]

On Mon, 4 May 2009, Michael Rubinsky wrote:

> Quoting Duane Hill <d.hill at yournetplus.com>:
>
>> On Mon, 4 May 2009, Michael Rubinsky wrote:
>> 
>>> Quoting Duane Hill <d.hill at yournetplus.com>:
>>> 
>>>> I just recently installed v1.2.3 on a FreeBSD 6.4 server. I have followed 
>>>> the installation instructions with the docs/INSTALL document and have all 
>>>> required FreeBSD ports/packages installed. I have seen the test page by 
>>>> visiting http://myserver/horde/test.php. There isn't anything on the page 
>>>> that indicates errors. I have also performed the tests that are listed 
>>>> beside imp, ingo, kronolith and turba. All are clean.
>>>> 
>>>> I have edited imp/config/servers.php to reflect using our IMAP server 
>>>> that resides at a different location. IMAP connections from the server 
>>>> Horde is installed on is able to make successful telnet IMAP connections 
>>>> to the other server without error. However, whenever a login attempt is 
>>>> made using Internet Explorer 7, the login screen stays up. When I look in 
>>>> the logs for Horde, it says the login was successful. When I look in the 
>>>> logs on our IMAP server it shows the login was successful and there was 
>>>> an immediate logout directly following within the same second of time.
>>>> 
>>>> I have searched the web for solutions of which none I could find worked. 
>>>> Does anyone have a helpful tip or pointer?
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.horde.org/FAQ/Admin/Troubleshoot?#toc3
>> 
>> Sessions are working properly according to the test page. I'm not using 
>> custom session handlers. The cookie path is set to the default:
>>
>>    /horde
>
> ...and you access horde with http://domain.com/horde?  I'm also assuming that 
> you tried clearing the browser's cookies?
>
>> Where does Horde get $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] from?
>
> Form http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php:
>
> "The name of the server host under which the current script is executing. If 
> the script is running on a virtual host, this will be the value defined for 
> that virtual host."

This issue is now resolved. I installed webmail into a virtual install
using Apache v2.2 and everything worked as expected. I then upgraded
Apache from v1.3 to v2.2 on the live server and it too is working as
expected.

The step in the installation instructions that speaks about setting:

     AcceptPathInfo On

in the Apache configuration file requires at least Apache v2.0.30 
according to:

     http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html