[imp] Newbie installation help

[Rob Brandt]

I've made much progress in getting horde installed.  Currently,
I'm stuck trying to login.  When I enter a user name and password
then click Log In, I just get returned back to the login page.  No
errors or other information.

Here's a list of what I've done, not sure what's relevent and not.

* Got fatal error on _(); recompiling php with gettext support
solved this.

* Got error message that configuration files were missing. 
Knowing this was NOT the case, I surmised a user permission
problem.  I run apache as 'nobody'.  I changed the group
permissions on these files from apache to nobody and solved the
problem.

* Got fatal error with missing phptype.  After further massaging
of horde.php, I elminated the problem with the following settings
(with passwords omitted):

$conf['auth']['driver'] = 'sql';

$conf['auth']['params'] = array();

$conf['auth']['params']['phptype'] = 'mysql';
$conf['auth']['params']['hostspec'] = 'localhost';
$conf['auth']['params']['username'] = 'horde';
$conf['auth']['params']['password'] = (omitted);
$conf['auth']['params']['database'] = 'horde';
$conf['auth']['params']['table'] = 'horde_users';

$conf['prefs']['driver'] = 'sql';

$conf['prefs']['params'] = array();

$conf['prefs']['params']['phptype'] = 'mysql';
$conf['prefs']['params']['hostspec'] = 'localhost';
$conf['prefs']['params']['username'] = 'horde';
$conf['prefs']['params']['password'] = (omitted);
$conf['prefs']['params']['database'] = 'horde';
$conf['prefs']['params']['table'] = 'horde_prefs';

At this point, I really didn't expect it to work, since it is
authenticating against a mysql db, and the tables in it are still
empty.  Just to try it, I added in my username and password (same
as my unix user name and password).  But the result is still the
same.  I don't see anything in the admin FAQ about how to do this.

What's next?