[horde] Starting from Scratch - Mail Not Activated

[John McIntyre]

2015-02-14 23:08 GMT+00:00 Simon B <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com>:

>
> 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
>

Ha!  That was it!!

Switched cookie path from / to /horde and I can login.  Not only that, but
my applications are now available!

All I need to do now is to configire Ansel.

You, Sir, are owed beer when you hit London next time !

Thank you very much.

John.