[horde] Huge problems on fresh install of Horde Groupware.

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting maillist <maillist at lightspeed.ca>:

> On 2014-05-28 13:51, Michael J Rubinsky wrote:
>
>> Quoting maillist <maillist at lightspeed.ca>:
>>
>>> We've had an older version of Horde for a long time, and when it  
>>> became necessary to upgrade, upgrading became impossible thanks to  
>>> having to skip over too many major versions. So I created a whole  
>>> new space for Horde 5, and followed the instructions for  
>>> installing it through PEAR, found at  
>>> http://www.horde.org/apps/horde/docs/INSTALL [1] The problems  
>>> started when I came to this step: Creating databases Once you  
>>> created the database configuration in the previous step, you can  
>>> create all database tables by hitting the Update all DB schemas  
>>> button in the configuration screen. The database "horde5" had  
>>> already been created, along with the user and the password.  
>>> Apparently, creating the database failed somewhere during the  
>>> process, and now I get the error at the end of my post. Dropping  
>>> the database and starting anew has done nothing to solve this  
>>> problem. Neither has re-creating the username and password, or  
>>> scrubbing the Horde config file and starting over. I would *like*  
>>> to be able
> to set up the database schema manually through MySQL, but I can't  
> find any way of doing that, or database tables for MySQL anywhere in  
> the installed code.
>>
>> We don't ship any schema files. All DB creation/management is done via
>> migrations. From a fresh horde db (no existing tables), try running
>> the horde-migrate script.
>
> What 'horde-migrate' script?
>
> www3:/home/webmail.ourdomain.com/public_html/horde5# find . -name
> horde-migrate
> www3:/home/webmail.ourdomain.com/public_html/horde5# locate
> horde-migrate
> www3:/home/webmail.ourdomain.com/public_html/horde5#
>
> I don't see any 'horde-migrate' script.
>
> Nevermind the fact that we've long given up on migrating our old
> database to the new format. The migration has never been anything short
> of a complete disaster. We're starting a whole new installation with a
> different database.

It's called horde-db-migrate, and is a cli script installed with the  
base horde package. It's mentioned under section 4. Creating Databases  
in the INSTALL document.

-- 
mike
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