[horde] Cannot install Horde with composer on openSUSE 15.4

[Admin Beckspaced]

Am 17.02.2023 um 18:16 schrieb Brent:
>  Quoting Ferdinand Gruber <fer.grub at yahoo.de>:
>
>> Am 16.02.23 um 10:22 schrieb Admin Beckspaced:
>>> I encountered an issue with running composer as root.
>>>
>>> Do not run Composer as root/super user! See 
>>> https://getcomposer.org/root for details
>>> Continue as root/super user [yes]?
>>>
>>> If I just confirmed with yes and run composer the horde installation 
>>> was not working properly.
>>>
>>> Seems like some plugins were disabled as mentioned here: 
>>> https://getcomposer.org/doc/faqs/how-to-install-untrusted-packages-safely.md
>>>
>>> If I then instead do 'export COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1' in the 
>>> shell  and then run composer install the horde installation was 
>>> properly installed.
>>
>> Ah, this is a new aspect of my problems with installation of Horde6 
>> using composer.
>>
>> I did not mention, that composer should not run under the user roor. 
>> To be honest, I didn't know, that this is important. But this 
>> restriction is understandable.
>>
>> Now I tried a new installation of Horde as root.
>> Before i set the envirionment variable: export 
>> COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1
>>
>> But unfortunately that didn't change anything. My request is still 
>> being redirected.
>>
>> I tried the issue on my home computer:
>>
>> Request: horde.localnet
>>
>> The horde wizard does not appear. I get still redirected to the non 
>> existing http://horde/login.php
>>
>> Ferdinand
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards from Austria
>> Ferdinand Gruber
>>
>>
>
> As I said, you don't NEED to run it as root, but you can. It is not 
> recommended because if the composer/git project becomes compromised, 
> then the evil-doers could add scripts that would be executed as root. 
> Best to run as a non-privildged user, of course. The user running 
> composer needs full write access to the horde subtree as it creates 
> symlinks back to the installation directory.
>
> @Ferdinand: when I check your test.php, I see that there is NO session 
> cookie being set when I access your site. Horde should set a "horde" 
> session cookie and it uses that for access. This is why I get the 
> Horde_Auth driver not found when I go to: 
> https://horde.grubit.at/horde/login.php.   I've tried messing around 
> with my installation to prevent a session cookie, but no luck so far. 
> If I could look at your VM, then maybe I could help sleuth the issue.
>
> Session cookies might be trying to be written to /var/lib/php8; but, 
> even if I make that directory read-only or unavailable on my test 
> system, I still get a session cookie.
>
> It probably has more to do with your apache2 configuration, somehow.
>
> brent

I also do suspect issues with the apache configuration.
but without direct access to the box debugging the issue isn't that easy.

greetings
& happy sunday :)
Ralf