Chris and any others that may have been following this thread, Thanks to the guys over on the phpgroupware-users mailing list, and some suggestions from this list, I've finally got phpgroupware running. I ran into a lot of obstacles along the way. Hopefully these notes will be helpful for others that might be trying to get it running on Debian Woody as well. For starters, the php3-mysql package didn't edit /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini, so I had to add a line to that file before phpgroupware could see that I did have MySQL support installed. But then I was still running into a blank page on the Setup/Config Login. The folks over on the phpgroupware-users list recommended a newer version of the software off their site, as it had some improvements over the RC version that's in Debian. That combined with the fact that some parts of the Debian setup seemed better covered by php4, while php3 was listed as a dependency, I ended up uninstalling all .debs of php3 and phpgroupware. I then apt-get installed php4, php4-imap, php4-cgi and php4-mysql. Once that was configured, thanks to debconf, I used to cvs to grab the latest stable phpgroupware, and followed the install instructions from their website. At this point I had a problem with my web browser telling me the login page was a php3 file, and then asking me whether I wanted to download it or view it using a file handler. Through a combination of doing an updatedb, dpkg-reconfigure apache, editing httpd.conf and clearing the disk and memory cache in my browser (some of this was due to php3 remnants that were left on my machine), I was able to get the login page and edit my header.inc.php file. I also had to change the permissions on the ~phpgroupware directory to be owned by the same user and group that apache runs as. Next I had to create an empty database for phpgroupware to use for the Setup/Config login page. Evidently the mysql apt-get installation didn't set a password in mysql, so I had to use the command "mysqladmin -u root create phpgroupware" while logged in as root to create the database (Dropping the "-p" flag that the phpgroupware page said to use). I'll obviously need to secure MySQL a little better before I make this portion of my site public. The next step was giving the group "phpgroupware" access to the database "phpgroupware," as mentioned on the phpgroupware site. Finally I was able to login to the Setup/Config portion of phpgroupware/setup/index.php. Once you're in there it's just a simple matter of telling it to install all the applications, setting up an admin account, creating user accounts, etc. Now I'll be working on tightening the phpgroupware and MySQL security and then opening my firewall to allow my users to access my site. Thanks again for all the help from this list, Jacob On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 11:50:46 +0000 Chris Lale <ctlale@coolscience.co.uk> wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > > Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial for setting > > up phpgroupware on a Debian Woody box? I think I've finally gotten > > all the proper packages installed for it to run on a mySQL database, > > but I know very little about where to go next. I also found that the > > docs at www.phpgroupware.org seem to be lacking quite a bit. > > Have you actually got it running? I had no luck. The phpgroupware > package removed php4 and installed php3. It also installed mysql. > Could you tell me what packages you have installed/configured? > > Cheers, > > Chris. ----- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/
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