[horde] Upgrade from H5 to H6

[Simon B]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 20:43, redhat <redhat at techspace.nl> wrote:
>
>
> Op 13-2-2025 om 16:31 schreef Simon B:
> > On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 at 00:23, Brent <impuser at bitrealm.com> wrote:
> >>    Quoting Andreas Mauser <andreas at mauser.info>:
> >>
> >>> Dear Team,
> >>>
> >>> is it today possible to upgrade a H5 to a H6 without new install?
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>>
> >>> Andreas, and a happy new year!
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> >> The way I did it was to install the new H6 bits into a new directory.
> >> I use a mysql database; so, I then configure the new H6 installation
> >> to use the existing mysql and upon first admin access, it'll prompt to
> >> update the db schema. Seems to run fine after that for me. I would
> >> highly suggest making a backup of the database in case something
> >> doesn't go right. One then needs to repoint the webserver to the new
> >> root dir and you should be set. Addresses, contacts, notes, and such
> >> are all retained for each user, in my experience.
> >>
> >> I would suggest testing this on a parallel installation, if possible.
> > I have kept this mail for sometime wanting to answer in the same vein.
> >
> > I have just done so in a separate thread.
> >
> > Not included in those instructions was an instruction to run
> >
> > sudo -u www-data composer horde-reconfigure
> >
> >
> > if you copy over application config files.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Simon
>
> Simon thanks for you fast answer
>
> yes a new install
>
> but still the white screen with text.
>
> I dit a new install of Ubuntu to be sure i had not corrupted the system
> before.
>
> Linux data-server 6.8.0-52-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat
> Jan 11 00:06:25 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> HP 8.3.6 (cli) (built: Dec  2 2024 12:36:18) (NTS)
> Copyright (c) The PHP Group
> Zend Engine v4.3.6, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
>      with Zend OPcache v8.3.6, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies
>
>
> mkdir -p /usr/share/2024-composer-horde6
> /usr/share/2024-composer-horde6  made group www-data writing rights
> *Get a root project*
>
> apt install composer
> until here ok
>
> chown root:www-data /var/www/.composer/cache/
> this was not here
>
> cd /usr/share/2024-composer-horde6
> sudo -u www-data composer create-project horde/bundle .
> *Install Horde Base Application*
>
> this i had to change i got a extra folder named bundle
>
> cd /usr/share/2024-composer-horde6/bundle/
> cp -var bundle/web/horde/config/conf.php.dist
> bundle/var/config/horde/conf.php
> sudo -u www-data composer horde-reconfigure
>
> until here no problems
>
> then made an alias to it all
> Alias /horde /usr/share/2024-composer-horde6/bundle/web/horde/
>
> # DocumentRoot /usr/share/2024-composer-horde6/bundle/web/horde/
> <Directory /usr/share/2024-composer-horde6/bundle/web/horde/>
>
>      Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
>      Order allow,deny
>      Allow from all
>          AllowOverride All
>
> </Directory>
>
> And onse more a wite page with text
> i cheked te dokument root /var/www 3 extra files .cashe .config .local
> owner an write rights www-data

I do not know enough to help, and whilst I understand the desire to
have /horde on the end of your URL, my document root is

DocumentRoot /usr/share/2024-composer-horde6/web

And this works just fine.

SImon


> i hope you might have some more suggestions or is the package broken?.
>