[horde] Horde Groupware Webmail installation - test.php comes out empty

[Leonardo Salerno]

Hello,

I'm having a problem with the installation of Horde Groupware Webmail
Edition 5.0 on CentOS 6.4 i386 with PHP 5.3.3 and Apache 2.2.15.

I followed the instructions found here:
http://www.horde.org/apps/webmail/docs/INSTALL and got to the point of
trying to open the test page, in my case located at
http://192.168.3.253/wmail/test.php.


The only thing I get is a blank page. I'm no PHP programmer but tried to
hunt down the problem using Horde FAQs and googling around. By using an
highly advanced debugging technique called "place echo commands all around
.php files until you find the culprit" I found the offending code line:


$registry = $GLOBALS['registry'] = new $classname($s_ctrl, $args);


it's in /usr/share/pear/Horde/Registry.php line 246 and nothing following
that line gets executed.


It seems to me that it's trying to create a new Horde_Registry ($classname)
instance from inside the Horde_registry class itself but I'm not sure since
I don't know PHP. The passed parameters are 0 in $s_ctrl and array(11) {
["admin"]=> bool(false) ["authentication"]=> string(4) "none" ["cli"]=>
NULL ["nocompress"]=> bool(false) ["nologintasks"]=> bool(false)
["permission"]=> bool(false) ["session_cache_limiter"]=> NULL
["session_control"]=> NULL ["timezone"]=> bool(false) ["user_admin"]=> NULL
["test"]=> bool(true) } in $args.


I thought it may be a null values problem but the code itself seems to be
putting nulls inside the array. I tried to activate php errors in php.ini
but the code just stops there without writing nothing anywhere. I looked in
the system logs and apache logs but found nothing.


What can I add? Installation went fine, after some struggling with the
dependencies, and afaik, the only missing pieces are the --with-png-dir
(reccomended but not required) and the memcache pecl module (ditto). IMAP
and SMTP servers are on a different machine so I didn't install nothing of
the sort. What else? I ran "pear install horde/webmail" instead of "pear
install -a -B horde/webmail" (as per instructions, you get to choose among
three choices) and installed activesync afterwards with "pear install
horde/horde_activesync".


Ok, I've written a lot already and don't want to bore anyone. If you need
some info just ask.


Thanks a lot

Leo