[imp] Setting up horde/imp on a Featureprice server

[Ryan Booker]

Thanks for the reply.  My versions follow:

horde 2.1
imp 3.1

I am tempted to uninstall there system and reinstall it myself from scratch.
Is this possible without shell access and only having write access to the my
root html and cgi-bin dirs?

The control panel mentioned below is just a front end featurerprice provide
for accessing your account.  It has a basic file browser and lits the
istalled apps etc.  Any real work has to be done via ftp, a web based script
(eg moveabletype had cgi's that are run from the browser) or something like
phpMyAdmin.  phpMyAdmin doesn't allow sql to be run until you are connected
to a database.  So I can only create the horde db manually (therefore it is
created as the root user).

Cheers,
Ryan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Rostetter" <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>
To: <imp at lists.horde.org>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [imp] Setting up horde/imp on a Featureprice server


> Quoting Ryan Booker <ryan at buzzeddie.com>:
>
> > > I'm new to IMP/Horde and am trying to set it up on a featureprice.com
> > hosted
> > > server.
>
> Never heard of them, but it should be possible.
>
> > > They had an option to install IMP which I used.  This however
> > > provided a very basic install with no database, no options, no
calendar,
> > > nothing except straight email collection and no way to set options or
> > > preferences etc.
>
> You will want to start by getting the database working and setup.  Most
> everything else (options, calendar, address book, etc) will depend on
> the database.
>
> One thing you want to check, and provide to the list when asking for help,
> is the horde and imp versions.  You can find them in horde/lib/version.php
> and horde/imp/lib/version.php (access via ftp for example) or via the
> horde/test.php and imp/test.php pages (accessed via web), at least in
> recent versions...
>
> > > I've tried getting help from the featureprice people, but they are
> > useless.
>
> Sorry to hear that.
>
> > > Three weeks and the best response I can get is "Select the application
you
> > > want to install from the list provided".  Which, of course, is what I
did
> > in
> > > the first place.
>
> Well, you have the app, you just need to configure it.  That means two
things
> to start with.
>
> 1) update all the horde/config/*.php and horde/config/*.php files
(assuming
> a recent version).  You can download them via ftp, configure them, and
upload
> them via ftp again.  I presume they provided you with *.php versions
> already; if not copy the *.php.dist files to *.php.
>
> > > Basically, I want a full featured webmail setup.  With email,
calendar,
> > task
> > > list, options/preferences etc.  My understanding is that this requires
a
> > > mySQL database.  mySQL is installed and working.  I have a
moveabletype
> > > database/blog etup and running fine.
>
> It requires an sql database.  MySql is one option.  Since you
> have that, go with it.
>
> > > From reading the help on horde.org it seems to rely on me having shell
> > > access to the site/mysql.
>
> Well, it provides scripts that you can run from a shell account.  But
> you could just issue the same commands from any sql front-end.  So you
> don't need a shell account, you just need to work around not having one
> (via sql front end, ftp, etc).
>
> >  which I do not.  All I have is a control panel
>
> No idea here what "control panel" means.
>
> > > and ftp access.  I can install and run cgi etc and I have phpMyAdmin,
but
> > it
> > > wont run the create scripts etc, because they are designed to be run
at
> > the
> > > shell of mysql not from a database that already exists (the only way
to
> > run
> > > it in phpmyadmin).
>
> You should be able to issue the sql commands (from those shell scripts)
> with any decent sql frontend.  I've not used phpMyAdmin but I would guess
> it would provide such a sql interface.
>
> > > I hope that all made sense, and someone can provide some guidance.
>
> Yes, but we really need to know what version of horde/imp you are using,
> as mentioned above.
>
> > > Cheers,
> > > Ryan
>
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> Eric Rostetter
> The Department of Physics
> The University of Texas at Austin
>
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