[horde] Help with all of this

[Steve Campbell]

On 7/10/2014 5:37 PM, Erling Preben Hansen wrote:
>  Citat af Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com>:
>
>> On 7/9/2014 4:58 PM, Erling Preben Hansen wrote:
>>> Citat af Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com>:
>>>
>>>> On 7/8/2014 5:45 PM, Erling Preben Hansen wrote:
>>>>> Citat af Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I certainly picked the wrong day to attempt a new installation, with
>>>
>>> all
>>>>>> the little glitches that were going on. Glad to see how fast they
> were
>>>>>> resolved.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been debating which version I should be using - Framework,
>>>>>> Groupware, or Webmail. My original version was the only version
>>>>>> available way back when, Framework, but now there's so much more.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The documentation for Webmail suggests I should use the admin
>>>>>> functions
>>>>>> to configure my setup, but it seems I can only get to any admin page
>>>>>> once, and then I always get routed back to the normal login page
>>>>>> afterwards, regardless of whether I change anything or not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How is the install supposed to be configured? Manually or through 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> web page, or does it matter? For now, I'm just guessing at most of
>>>>>> what
>>>>>> needs changed, using what I can from my old install. A pointer to
>>>>>> configuration would be great.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for all being done.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> steve campbell
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>>>>>
>>>>> hey
>>>>> Did you ad an admin acount to horde/config/conf.php
>>>>> is your setting 'hordeauth' in horde/imp/config/backend.php or
>>>>> backend.local.php correct.
>>>>> /erling
>>>>
>>>> I have a user configured in horde/config/conf.php
>>>> I don't see hordeauth set to 'true' anywhere in backend.php. I've yet
> to
>>>> create any local files.
>>>>
>>>> I actually think Imp might be working, I just need to figure out 
>>>> how to
>>>> add a dropdown for domains (that point to various imap servers) on the
>>>> login screen. In the old version, there was a file named servers.php
>>>> under the config directory of imp. I might be able to use the contents
>>>> of that file.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure I need to configure anything on the web site.
>>>>
>>>> steve
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>>>
>>> you need to make that backend.local.php
>>>
>>> and you need to read upgrading info.
>>> http://www.horde.org/apps/imp/docs/UPGRADING
>>> /erling
>>
>> The list only goes back to IMP 4.0, and I'm running IMP 3.2.1.
>>
>> Looks like I've got a lot of reading to do.
>>
>> Thanks for all the help.
>>
>> steve
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>
> Hey
> I understand that you upgrade from a very old one.
> In that case, I think it will be best for you.
> To put most of what you are used to in the background and start all over.
>
> To configure all normal thing in Horde it is best to use the web 
> interface.
> You avoid typos and you get a small explanation of most config options.
> So the first thing is to get the login working to get to admin page.
> check If your webserver has the needed rewrite rules and /or access to
> .htaccess.
> and your filepermissions is in order.
> Check logs for errors.
> fix those errors, there is, often a google search will get you a long 
> way.
> I know this is time consuming.
> Hordes wiki has many answers mail list arkive to. But goolge will often
> find those faster than a manuel search.
> There is only one way....
>
> For some of os to helpyou better it would be nice to know....
> are you using imp to authenticate users or do you use a seperat database.
> what webserver are you using what is working and what is not.
>
> /erling
Funny thing, I was going to address most of what you had mentioned this 
morning.

I am installing a new server. I'm not upgrading anything. The only thing 
I will be using from the old server is the database if I can import what 
data was used on the old database. I realize the database has changed, 
and the fact that the way horde/webmail is installed, that there will be 
a lot more tables in the database. So here's what I've got now on the 
new server.

I use Centos 6.5 - 64 bit - on the new machine. I'm using the Horde 
Groupware Webmail Edition 5 to get Imp installed. The version of Imp I 
had on the old system, a Centos 3 machine, was 3.2.1. It's taking me a 
little while to figure out what's changed and where stuff is placed now 
(things like using backends.php instead of servers.php), but I'm getting 
there. Reading the UPGRADING doc yesterday helped quite a bit, even 
though it only starts discussing upgrading version 4 and above.

We use Imp exclusively from the groupware. That may change since so many 
other parts of Horde are installed in the groupware installation. There 
are 3 main domains here. I use a dropdown on the login screen to allow 
people to select their domain. Instead of a local machine running 
dovecot or some other IMAP server, I run Perdition. Perdition will 
redirect the imap (and pop if necessary) connection to the proper server 
for each user. It works very well.

All of the functions I need of IMP are working at the current time. My 
main problem right now is I'm sure my installation isn't as stable as it 
could be. During installation, I ran into a lot of dependency problems, 
and ended up using "-f --alldeps -B" to get this installed. No matter 
how I tried to resolve the problems, it seemed I just found others along 
the way.

The only problem I see now is that I can't use the Admin pages at all. 
My apache logs (using the default apache that comes with a Centos 
install httpd-2.2.15-30) is showing that any admin page can't find 
"lib/base.php". There may be more it can't find, but that seems to be 
the first hurdle. It's looking in the proper place, but that file 
doesn't exist, so I'm sure it's due to the way I installed. I followed 
the installation instructions except for adding the "-f" to the "pear 
install -a -B horde/webmail" command.

I could leave it like this since it's running and doing everything it 
needs to do, but I'm retiring in a month and would like to have the 
admin stuff working for my replacement. I'm sure he's never even heard 
of Horde.

So my questions for now is "What causes the lib/base.php file to get 
installed?". Is there a way to rerun something just to get that part of 
the installation done?

Thanks for the patient reply. I know this is a lot of trouble for you guys.

steve campbell