[horde] [ansel] Setting up Horde3 on Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze

Michael J Rubinsky mrubinsk at horde.org
Thu Jan 19 20:41:23 UTC 2012


This is probably better suited for the "horde" mailing list. Nothing  
here is specific to ansel.
Anyay, see responses below:

Quoting Csanyi Pal <csanyipal at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to setup horde3 on my home server, that running Debian
> GNU/Linux Squeeze. On this server was installed the so called
> bubba-horde package that is from the
> http://update.excito.org/pool/main/b/bubba-horde/ repository.

It is HIGHLY recommended to use Horde 4. The 4.1 releases will be out  
in a few months, and the 3.x series will have reached EOL for bug fixes.


> The bubba-horde package was purged and after that was installed the
> horde3 debian package from the Debian official repository.
>
> I'm following instructions from
> /usr/share/doc/horde3/README.Debian.gz
>
> I have so far setup the followings:
>  1. Configuring the web server
>  sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
>
> The lines bellow was in this file already, probably after I installed horde3:
>
>    Alias /horde3 /usr/share/horde3
>    <Directory /usr/share/horde3>
>        Options FollowSymLinks
>        AllowOverride Limit
>        deny from all
>        allow from 192.168.10.90
>    </Directory>
>    <Files ~ "\.(inc|bak)$">
>        deny from all
>    </Files>
>
> I must only to changed the line:
> allow from My IP address
> to
> allow from 192.168.10.90
>
> This IP address is that that my desktop machine get from the server's
> dhcp-server. It's always the same IP address, because on my home LAN my
> desktop machine is the only system so far.
>
>  sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> DirectoryIndex index.php
> php_flag session.auto_start Off
>
>  sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
> memory_limit 128 MB
> upload_max_filesize 15 MB
>
>  sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
>  sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
>
>  2. Creating databases
>  Creating the preferences storage container
>  ls /usr/share/doc/horde3-base/examples/scripts/sql
> Is in the
> /usr/share/doc/horde3-base/examples/scripts/sql directory there a
> create script for my database that is actually  mysql?
>
> ls /usr/share/doc/horde3-base/examples/scripts/sql
> Yes, there is the
> create.mysql.sql.gz
>
> in which one can read
> -- If you are installing Horde for the first time, you can simply
> -- direct this file to mysql as STDIN:
> --
> -- $ mysql --user=root --password=<MySQL-root-password> < create.mysql.sql
>
>  mysql --user=root --password=<MySQL-root-password> < create.mysql.sql
>
> cd /usr/share/doc/horde3-base/examples/scripts/sql
> sudo gzip -d create.mysql.sql.gz
>
> sudo nano /usr/share/doc/horde3-base/examples/scripts/sql/create.mysql.sql
> USE mysql;
>
> REPLACE INTO user (host, user, password)
>     VALUES (
>         'localhost',
>         'horde',
> -- IMPORTANT: Change this password.
>         PASSWORD('password')
> );
>
> I edited here the password only.
>
> mysql --user=root --password=<MySQL-root-password> < create.mysql.sql
>
>  I verified the existence of horde database
> mysql> show databases;
> +--------------------+
> | Database           |
> +--------------------+
> | information_schema |
> | horde              |
> | mysql              |
> +--------------------+
>
>  3. Configuring Horde
>  sudo nano /etc/horde/horde3/conf.php
> Here I should delete lines
> exit (0)
> and the echo line above it
> but can't find these.
> Only for the time being installing horde
> sudo chown -R www-data.www-data /etc/horde/horde3
>
>  http://192.168.10.1/horde3
> Now when I trying to open this webpage from my desktop machine on the
> LAN behind the server on which have installed and setup horde3, I get
> error message:
>
> Not Found
>
> The requested URL /login.php was not found on this server.
> Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at 192.168.10.1 Port 80
>
>
> It seems as if apache looks for login.php in the web root, not in
> the horde directory (should be /horde3/login.php).
>
> I edited the file so:
> $this->applications['horde'] = array(
>     'fileroot' => '/usr/share/horde3/lib' . '/..',
> //    'webroot' => _detect_webroot(),
>     'webroot' => '/horde3',
>     'initial_page' => 'login.php',
>     'name' => _("Horde"),
>     'status' => 'active',
>     'templates' => '/usr/share/horde3/lib' . '/../templates',
>     'provides' => 'horde',
> );
>
>
> I did run
> sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
>
> to restart my Apache2 server and try to open the webpage
> http://192.168.10.1/horde3/
> but never get it opened. Iceweasel webbrowser says in the status line
> something like: Waiting for 192.168.10.1...
>
> In the address field of the Iceweasel browser there is:
> http://192.168.10.1/horde3/login.php?Horde=8qrg5u0qi8tq5s5nkequ0uk3c5
>
> In the apache2 access.log I find:
> 192.168.10.90 - - [18/Jan/2012:19:36:25 +0100] "GET
> /horde3/login.php?url=%2Fhorde3%2Fservices%2Fportal%2Fsidebar.php\
> %3FHorde%3Dp1ith4ilo11q1mspackfiput02&nosidebar=1&\
> horde_logout_token=xhl4L4_QEJL-KH5PtnetwNbxyD4&app=horde&\
> Horde=p1ith4ilo11q1mspackfiput02HTTP/1.1" 200 1047\
> "http://192.168.10.1/horde3/login.php?Horde=c7ouu58j3q6iuaa53ts1q9emr6"
> "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1\
> Iceweasel/9.0.1"
>
> In the apache2 error.log there is an error:
> [Wed Jan 18 19:34:10 2012] [error] [client 192.168.10.90] PHP
> Deprecated:  Assigning the return value of new by reference is
> deprecated in /usr/share/horde3/lib/Horde/Prefs.php on line 847,
> referer:
> http://192.168.10.1/horde3/login.php?url=%2Fhorde3%2Fservices%\
> 2Fportal%2Fsidebar.php%3FHorde%3Dn6tvksp8qqoe16vteck3muotg6&\
> nosidebar=1&horde_logout_token=U6VumRHQBtPLv5Zmjc6QB3vVUlM&\
> app=horde&Horde=n6tvksp8qqoe16vteck3muotg6
>
> How can I solve this problem to get a functional Horde application?
>
> I don't want to install horde4 on my Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze, I want
> to solve the problem with horde3 on this system.

> Any advices will be appreciated!

This sounds like a cookie path/domain issue. $conf[cookie][path] and  
$conf[cookie][domain]. If you can't login to the adminstrative  
interface to read the comments about these settings, check out the  
FAQs on http://wiki.horde.org

Please continue this thread, if needed, on horde at lists.horde.org.
-- 
mike

The Horde Project (www.horde.org)
mrubinsk at horde.org



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