[horde] Second attempt Newbie with Ambitions

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Please don't top post.

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

> 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.

The horde log exists wherever it is configured to in horde's  
configuration conf.php. It could very well be configured to use the  
syslog. Make sure you have the logging level turned all the way up too.


> 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.

hooks.php has nothing to do with locking preferences. This is done via  
prefs[.local].php.


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

The only other thing I can think of is that you have configured to use  
a split-read configuration for your database (writes to one instance,  
reads from another).


> Kind regards, Jens.
>
> ________
>
> Am 14.07.2015 um 16:12 schrieb 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)?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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