[horde] Installation Horde 6

[Brent]

  Ensure that your <installdir>/horde/* is writable by the web user,  
typically apache. If it isn't, then obviously apache can't write the  
conf.php file to disk.

I have dovecot 2.4.1 and use it to auth Horde 6.

Webroot dir setup in apache would be <install-dir>/web...not just  
<installdir>.

So, I have /var/www/horde as my install dir, but my web root is  
/var/www/horde/web

This is a little different than H5.

The REAL conf.php is in:

<install-dir>/var/config/horde/conf.php

There will be a symlink to this in vendor...

<install-dir>/vendor/horde/horde/config/conf.php  ->   
<install-dir>var/config/horde/conf.php

$ ls -l  /var/www/horde/vendor/horde/horde/config/conf.php
lrwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 40 Jul  3  2025  
/var/www/horde/vendor/horde/horde/config/conf.php ->  
/var/www/horde/var/config/horde/conf.php

Here's the relevant sql stuff for my working config in conf.php:

$conf['sql']['username'] = 'hordeuser';
$conf['sql']['password'] = '****pass***';
$conf['sql']['socket'] = 'localhost';
$conf['sql']['port'] = 5432;
$conf['sql']['protocol'] = 'unix';
$conf['sql']['database'] = 'horde6';
$conf['sql']['charset'] = 'utf-8';
$conf['sql']['splitread'] = false;
$conf['sql']['logqueries'] = false;
$conf['sql']['phptype'] = 'pgsql';

brent

Quoting R.J.Baart at prompt.nl:

> All in all, I find it rather difficult. One of the problems I have  
> is that the configuration horde/conf.php cannot be saved because  
> every time I try, I get an error saying that the database details  
> are incorrect, and then the error mentioned in my previous email  
> appears in the logging.
>
> Not finding a solution for this problem, I decided to write the  
> configuration myself in horde/conf.php. That works, and I then have  
> a connection to the database. The database is also filled with  
> tables, so that's fine.
>
> I can now also log in, so authentication via imp works.
>     $conf[‘auth’][‘params’][‘app’] = ‘imp’;
>     $conf[‘auth’][‘driver’] = ‘application’;
> After the login screen looks pretty good, like with Horde 5.
>
> But still problems.
>
> - error writing conf.php it is not practical at all.
>
> - I can't read my email. Dovecot is the imap server. In Horde 5 that  
> worked immediately, now it doesn't. I don't see why. Nog errors in  
> the logfiles, on screen "error when communicating with the server".  
> I suppose it is something between dovecot (2.4) and Horde 6.
>
> Desperate I followed some update procedures from Ralf Lang:
>
>     # Allow unreleased development code from branch
>     composer config minimum-stability dev
>     # Prefer released alpha, beta or stable code over less stable versions
>     composer config prefer-stable true
>     # Install the new version of the installer plugin
>     composer require horde/horde-installer-plugin "^3 || dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0"
>     # Update everything according to environment set above
>     composer update
>     # Transition from symlink mode to proxy mode and rewrite registry files
>     composer horde:reconfigure --force
>
> That resulted in some updates but not the result I hoped for. In  
> ended that the login screen says:
>
>     Please create a /<website  
> directory>/horde/var/config/horde/conf.php file and then run  
> 'composer horde-reconfigure' to activate Horde
>
> The file can't be created, it exists already and is read if login  
> using the link
>
>     https://<myserver>/horde/index.php
>
> This way I skip the error. But still not see my mail.
>
> I think I'm close but pff....
>
> Op 25-1-2026 om 19:15 schreef Brent:
>>  I'd type in the port used for your database, just to be complete.  
>> I had not setup postgresql before, so I just did it and it works  
>> for me. A few things to test/check:
>>
>> Enable the test.php and ensure that you have all necessary php  
>> modules installed, key would be php-pgsql
>>
>> Verify that you can connect to this db from the shell using this  
>> user AND create a table.
>>
>> $ psql -h localhost -p 5432 -U mydatabase_user mydatabase_name
>> (type in password)
>>
>> If that also works, then be sure you can create a table as that user:
>>
>> mydatabase_name->   create table test123 (testname varchar(255)  );
>>
>> If that works, then the database is operational.
>>
>> Next up would be the verify that you have the right stuff installed  
>> via composer. Critical could be the DB package:
>>
>> $ sudo -u apache composer show | grep -i db
>> horde/db                     3.0.0alpha6   Database abstraction library
>>
>> See if any of that helps you.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> brent
>>
>> Quoting Ruud Baart <r.j.baart at prompt.nl>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Hope anyone can help.
>>>
>>> Thanks to Brent's brief instructions, I have now made considerable  
>>> progress with the installation of Horde 6 on my new Debian trixie  
>>> server (PHP8.4, Posgresql 17, nginx). I can now configure the  
>>> server. It's pretty similar to Horde 5, so I think I understand it  
>>> reasonably well. However, I'm going around in circles because I'm  
>>> getting an error message that I can't resolve.
>>>
>>> The message is:
>>>
>>>     Undefined variable $results [pid 329592 on line 1242 of "/<my  
>>> webroot  
>>> dir>/horde/vendor/horde/db/lib/Horde/Db/Adapter/Postgresql/Schema.php"]
>>>
>>> This message appears when I configure the “SQL Database Settings”:
>>>
>>> $conf[sql][phptype] PostgreSQL
>>>
>>> $conf[sql][username] mydatabase_user
>>>
>>> $conf[sql][password] ****
>>>
>>> $conf[sql][protocol] tcp/ip
>>>
>>> $conf[sql][hostspec] localhost
>>>
>>> $conf[sql][port] <empty>
>>>
>>> $conf[sql][database] mydatabase_name
>>>
>>> $conf[sql][charset] utf-8
>>>
>>> $conf[sql][splitread] Disabled
>>>
>>> Nothing fancy there, I think.
>>>
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