[horde] Starting from Scratch - Mail Not Activated

[Simon B]

On 14 Feb 2015 23:08, "John McIntyre" <joh98.mac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2015-02-14 21:47 GMT+00:00 Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>
> > Citeren Andreas Mauser <andreas at mauser.info>:
> >
> >
> >  ----- Nachricht von John McIntyre <joh98.mac at gmail.com> ---------
> >>   Datum: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 21:23:24 +0000
> >>     Von: John McIntyre <joh98.mac at gmail.com>
> >> Betreff: Re: [horde] Starting from Scratch - Mail Not Activated
> >>      An: Simon B <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com>
> >>      Cc: horde <horde at lists.horde.org>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Are there any plans to move towards a perl script that interactively
asks
> >>> users which modules they want, asks us where the database server is,
the
> >>> username and password, etc?   I've been administering UNIX and Linux
for
> >>> twenty years, and even to me, the installation of horde seems
> >>> horrendously
> >>> complicated.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I felt the same. At the beginning we had to deploy tar.gz files.
> >>
> >> Today I install Horde via PEAR. Thats easy. and if you ruin it, you
> >> remove it, reinstall via PEAR, use your old DB and you're good.
> >>
> >> Did you find this link?
> >>http://www.horde.org/apps/horde/docs/INSTALL
> >>
> >
> > Or usehttp://www.horde.org/apps/webmail/docs/INSTALL, if you want to
> > install (most of) the groupware packages. The 'webmail-install' script
will
> > guide you through most of the steps needed.
> >
>
> It's not very clear (no disrespect to those who wrote the documents). For
> example, 'apache2'?  Is that still in use??  I use the standard httpd
> daemon that comes with CentOS.
>
> What I don't get is that I can get to the login page, but not any further.
> Why?   Frustrating that I can't get this...

Probably, I just got lucky, but I was able to install and configure horde
pretty easily following the documentation.   But then I'm not a Linux or
Unix admin.

But I can Google.. and Google tells me that apache2 is the standard httpd
daemon that comes with centos. (Actually, apache 2.4 -
https://www.google.de/search?q=httpd+packages+in+centos+7)

To help you further, it would be helpful to know how far down this set of
instructions you got..

http://www.horde.org/apps/horde/docs/INSTALL#configuring-horde

You seem to have gotten past this point (since you're editing/creating
backends.local.php) but whenever I reference the horde GUI you seem not to
know what I'm talking about...

3. Completing Configuration

You can now access Horde without a password, and you will be logged in as
an administrator.

If you've never seen this screen
http://www.dokuwiki.tachtler.net/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=tachtler:horde:horde4_-_administration_konfiguration_horde.png
It will be hard to help you.

But look in your config file and see what this is set to..

// What path should we set cookies to? For maximum security this should
// match the URL where Horde is on your webserver.
// If Horde is at /horde, then this should be '/horde'.
// If Horde is installed as the document root, then this
// needs to be '/' - NOT ''.
// ** BUT, if IE will be used to access Horde modules, you should read
// this first (discussing issues with IE's Content Advisor):
// http://lists.horde.org/archives/imp/Week-of-Mon-20030113/029149.html
$conf['cookie']['path'] = '/';

Or use a different browser - one that has more promiscuous cookie settings.

Or maybe your IP changes and horde is detecting that?

Simon