[horde] Immediately logged out after login

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Ferdinand Gruber <fer.grub at yahoo.de>:

> I have a local instance of horde for test purposes on my computer at home.
>
> When trying to login I suddenly get the message that the session has  
> timed out.
>
> I called /horde/test.php and I don't see anything suspicious.
>
> The authentication is done by /horde/imp on my production server.  
> The horde instance on the production server itself works properly.
>
> This is imp/config/backends.local.php:
>
> // IMAP server
> $servers['imap'] = array(
>     'disabled' => false,
>     'name' => 'IMAP Server @ 'my_host_name',
>     'hostspec' => 'my_host_name',
>     'hordeauth' => false,
>     'protocol' => 'imap',
>     'port' => 143,
>     'secure' => 'tls',
> );
>
> I think that there might be something wrong with session management  
> or configuration because I get logged in and then immediately logged  
> out.
>
> This are the config items in horde/config/conf.php
>
> $conf['session']['name'] = 'Horde';
> $conf['session']['use_only_cookies'] = true;
> $conf['session']['timeout'] = 0;
> $conf['session']['cache_limiter'] = 'nocache';
> $conf['session']['max_time'] = 72000;
> $conf['cookie']['domain'] = "";

This domain is not valid. See  
https://www.horde.org/apps/horde/docs/SECURITY#php-sessions

If you don't set this properly, the credentials used for logging in  
can't be stored in the browser. Usually this is set to  
$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].

> $conf['cookie']['path'] = '/';

> Sorry that I don't really understand that.
>
> -- 
> Regards from Austria
> Ferdinand Gruber