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

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Ryan Booker <ryan at buzzeddie.com>:

> Thanks for the reply.  My versions follow:
> 
> horde 2.1
> imp 3.1

Those are reasonably current.

> 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?

Yes, probably (unless they are doing something non-standard).  But I see
no need unless you really want a more current version (Horde is now at
2.2.1, IMP is still at 3.1 but 3.2 should be out real soon now).

> 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).

Maybe you can get featureprice to create the needed databases for you as
empty databases, giving you permission?

If you can't get the database, or ldap, running, you won't get very far
on the path you want.  While most applications will work without a 
database, they are more or less useless without them (a calendar in which
you can't store events, an address book which can only query public
directories and you can't have your own address books, notes that can't
be saved between sessions, etc).

> Cheers,
> Ryan

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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