[horde] Second attempt Newbie with Ambitions

[Jens Hellermann]

Hello Michael,

OK, I set the rights for the www-data group now on all */config 
directories and saving the administrative configurations works like a 
charm now. Still the behaviour of the normal preferences getting stored 
in the sql database but don't become appplied remains.

I didn't find the horde.log but realized that syslog is quite 
informational also for msysql entries. I don't find any errors 
concerning saving the data though there was an error concerning xcache 
dynamic cache setting (was zero) which I fixed.

That didn't fix the issue though. I went through horde/config/conf.php 
and conf.php.dist but didn't find any mistake. hooks.php doesn't exist 
only  hooks.dist.php so nothing can be locked.

I have to admit I don't know how to proceed.

Kind regards, Jens.

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Am 14.07.2015 um 16:12 schrieb Michael J Rubinsky:
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> 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).
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>> 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.
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> The files in the */config directories need to be writable by the 
> webserver user for this to work.
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>> 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.
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>> 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)?
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