[horde] Second attempt Newbie with Ambitions

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Jens Hellermann <hellermann at we-do.com>:

> Dear Horde List Members,
>
> for now I gave up using ldap and imp configuration with hooks. That  
> goes far above my horizon as a newb. So I believe, keeping it simple  
> might be the best idea for the beginning and played a backup in,  
> when ldap wasn't configured yet and switched to imap authentication.  
> Together with the hordeauth=full feature in the imp  
> backends.local.php (now working for some reason) my mailaccount is  
> also authenticated without problem and my calendars are shown, too  
> (which it wasn't when I switched from ldap to imap auth).
>
> I still wonder though: I set my own mailaccount as administrator and  
> the administration interface is shown and can be configured. But I  
> can never save my conf.php or other configurations like imp from the  
> webinterface.

The files in the */config directories need to be writable by the  
webserver user for this to work.

> So I just copy the configuration into conf.php, but I wonder why  
> this happens.
>
> I realized that in a previous installation as well and started to  
> change permissions on certain folders with chmod 777 but I guess  
> that is not a good idea for security reasons.

This is correct. That sets the files to be WORLD writable. Normally  
the local unix account that administers the installation and the  
webserver user have access. Often the webserver is given read only  
access once the config is all set.

> Strangely also I can set the preferences (like global preferences or  
> the signature in mail preferences) and they are stored in the mysql  
> databse (I doublechecked as Steffen asked me to do so, thanks again  
> Steffen) but they never get applied when I lock into the webmail  
> interface. The interface stays in default value settings, allthough  
> the preferences are read also from the database and can be seen in  
> the configuration mask.

Not sure what you mean by "configuration mask". Do you see the SQL  
query for the prefs in the the horde log? Any errors in either the  
Horde log or the SQL server's log? Do you see the preference value  
*change* in the sql server when you make a change (as opposed to their  
just being some value)?



-- 
mike
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