[imp] PHP frustrations with IMP install

[Robin Whittle]

Craig White wrote:

> Just for another perspective - I have installed 1.2.5 / 2.2.5 on 2 
> different RH7.1 machines
> 
> Loaded apache/mysql/php4/ldap/mod_sql/mod_php/mod_ldap as part of 
> initial install.
> 
> downloaded horde & imp tarballs, expanded, configured scripts and had 
> them running in less than 2 hours, no fuss and no muss. 

I am glad you got IMP going without too much fuss!  


> I completely ignored all of their patched versions of rpm's for redhat 
> and think that it was infinitely easier.

So you found that the documentation I tried to follow was inadequate.

 
> Yes, you have to edit php.ini and httpd.conf
> Yes, you have to move phplib & edit various conf files

I am happy to edit, move and do all sorts of things - but I if I get the
sense that I have to actively ignore the documentation and start doing
things my own way, then I could be entering a wild-goose chase and spend
days and days poking around achieving nothing but frustration.

If you can document what you did, I would like to put it on my site, or
link to it.  Perhaps if you wrote it to this list in sufficient detail
for someone to follow it, even though they know nothing about IMP or any
of the preliminary things it needs, I can link to it from my site.

I was trying to follow the documentation.   I didn't know enough about
IMP or any of these other things to try anything else.

  - Robin