Installed at shared host, need help with Auth_SASL and php.ini

[Akzidenz]

I’m trying to configure eGroupWare, generally the install was very straightforward, and egw now runs OK, with a few issues. I have very limited PHP and server knowledge, and have the following problems.
1.
Still get the following warnings from Check Installation (Auth_SASL is the only one that is a big problem to me):
//
Warning Checking php.ini: mbstring.func_overload = 7: ini_get(‘mbstring.func_overload’)='0’
The mbstring.func_overload = 7 is needed to fully support unicode (utf-8) or other multibyte-charsets.
*** Please make the following change in your php.ini (/usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini): mbstring.func_overload = 7
*** AND reload your webserver, so the above changes take effect !!!
//
Warning Checking php.ini: magic_quotes_gpc = Off: ini_get(‘magic_quotes_gpc’)=‘1’ = On
magic_quotes_gpc is needed by: felamimail.
//
Warning Checking extension odbc is loaded or loadable: False
The odbc extension is needed, if you plan to use a MaxDB, MsSQL or Oracle database.
//
Warning Checking extension oci8 is loaded or loadable: False
The oci extension is needed, if you plan to use a Oracle database.
//
Warning Checking extension ldap is loaded or loadable: False
The ldap extension is needed, if you use ldap as account or contact storage, authenticate against ldap or active directory. It’s not needed for a standard SQL installation.
//
Warning Checking PEAR::Auth_SASL is installed: False
PEAR::Auth_SASL is needed by: EMailAdmin, felamimail. You can install it by running: pear install Auth_SASL
//

I’ve made some changes to upload max and times in php.ini and placed it at b/ (where egroupware lives). But, egroupware is still reading php.ini from /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini.

About my EGW install:
On Hostmonster, shared hosting, with no access beyond my directory (/home/a)
On a subdomain, say “b.a.net.au”. EGW is at /home/a/b/ (NOT inside any other directory)

I think that’s all, but can give any other details if asked. Thank you for any help here, and thanks to the developers for making a great application!

[jbakshi12]

Akzidenz wrote:

You can try
http://www.infoservices.in/fileadmin/files/Multidomain_eGroupware-1.4.001.pdf

I’m trying to configure eGroupWare, generally the install was very
straightforward, and egw now runs OK, with a few issues. I have very limited
PHP and server knowledge, and have the following problems.
1.
Still get the following warnings from Check Installation (Auth_SASL is the
only one that is a big problem to me):
//
Warning Checking php.ini: mbstring.func_overload = 7:
ini_get(‘mbstring.func_overload’)='0’
The mbstring.func_overload = 7 is needed to fully support unicode (utf-8) or
other multibyte-charsets.
*** Please make the following change in your php.ini
(/usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini): mbstring.func_overload = 7
*** AND reload your webserver, so the above changes take effect !!!
//
Warning Checking php.ini: magic_quotes_gpc = Off:
ini_get(‘magic_quotes_gpc’)=‘1’ = On
magic_quotes_gpc is needed by: felamimail.
//
Warning Checking extension odbc is loaded or loadable: False
The odbc extension is needed, if you plan to use a MaxDB, MsSQL or Oracle
database.
//
Warning Checking extension oci8 is loaded or loadable: False
The oci extension is needed, if you plan to use a Oracle database.
//
Warning Checking extension ldap is loaded or loadable: False
The ldap extension is needed, if you use ldap as account or contact storage,
authenticate against ldap or active directory. It’s not needed for a
standard SQL installation.
//
Warning Checking PEAR::Auth_SASL is installed: False
PEAR::Auth_SASL is needed by: EMailAdmin, felamimail. You can install it by
running: pear install Auth_SASL
//

I’ve made some changes to upload max and times in php.ini and placed it at
b/ (where egroupware lives). But, egroupware is still reading php.ini from
/usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini.

About my EGW install:
On Hostmonster, shared hosting, with no access beyond my directory (/home/a)
On a subdomain, say “b.a.net.au”. EGW is at /home/a/b/ (NOT inside any other
directory)

I think that’s all, but can give any other details if asked. Thank you for
any help here, and thanks to the developers for making a great application!

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[Akzidenz]

Thanks for the tip Joydeep.
I can see you have put a lot of time into that manual, but I really have very limited knowledge of PHP/PEAR/Linux etc. I don’t really know how to do any of the things you show there that might help.
Anyway, since Friday I have learnt a lot about php.ini and so can now better define my question.
My hosting set up looks like this:

[shared host A] <<-- I guess holds shared install of PEAR1.6.X
[[mydomain.com]] <<-- Holds PEAR installed modules
[[[public_html]]] <<-- Main site stuff
[[[[subdomain-a]]]] <<-- Holds all egw files (a.myotherdomain.net.au)
/php.ini All php.ini files in subdomain-a are identical
/setup/php.ini
[[[[subdomain-b]]]] <<-- Other subdomains

[shared host B] <<-- I guess holds shared install of PEAR1.6.X
[[myotherdomain.net.au]] <<-- ‘a’ records to direct to sub domains on shared host A
[[[public_html]]] <<-- Live website files

So the question is: how do I reference the location of PEAR modules (located at home/mydom/php/PEAR) within those two php.ini files? Nothing I try seems to work! Do all the PEAR modules need to be stored at subdomain-a? I think that could cause duplication and pain when I use PEAR modules for other things at this host. But if that’s the only way it’s going to work, I can do that.

[Akzidenz]

I seem to have solved this. I found the following.

• php.ini include path is “.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php”
• The PEARs for eGroupware are modified versions, except Auth_SASL, and need to be in egroupwaredirectory/egw_pear.
• Auth_SASL also needs to be in egw_pear
• The PEARs at home/user/php/PEAR are not relevant

With this set up I get no warnings.
I will now proceed with the install, expecting this issue to be resolved.
To the developers: the installation is really well done, but the above information is not included in the docs (that I could find). This information is really important to users like me with limited PHP/server technologies skills on shared hosting space, and should be clearly spelt out!

[Sterke-Jerke]

Thanks for the tip Joydeep.
I can see you have put a lot of time into that manual, but I really have very limited knowledge of PHP/PEAR/Linux etc. I don’t really know how to do any of the things you show there that might help.
Anyway, since Friday I have learnt a lot about php.ini and so can now better define my question.
My hosting set up looks like this:

[shared host A] <<-- I guess holds shared install of PEAR1.6.X
[[mydomain.com]] <<-- Holds PEAR installed modules
[[[public_html]]] <<-- Main site stuff
[[[[subdomain-a]]]] <<-- Holds all egw files (a.myotherdomain.net.au)
/php.ini All php.ini files in subdomain-a are identical
/setup/php.ini
[[[[subdomain-b]]]] <<-- Other subdomains

[shared host B] <<-- I guess holds shared install of PEAR1.6.X
[[myotherdomain.net.au]] <<-- ‘a’ records to direct to sub domains on shared host A
[[[public_html]]] <<-- Live website files

So the question is: how do I reference the location of PEAR modules (located at home/mydom/php/PEAR) within those two php.ini files? Nothing I try seems to work! Do all the PEAR modules need to be stored at subdomain-a? I think that could cause duplication and pain when I use PEAR modules for other things at this host. But if that’s the only way it’s going to work, I can do that.

This is very usefull info to me, but I have not found the last info I need to make it work:

In order to activate php 5, I had to put the following in .htaccess:
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 .php

I create the relvant php.ini file’s in the egroupware folder, and copied that also to setup.

The thing is: the default memory vallue is 8M.
It looks like I have to copy the php.ini to ALL folders. Is that true?

[Akzidenz]

Yes, from memory that’s right - php.ini has to be in every directory. You can create a script to make this happen and update automatically.

1. I suggest you just Google “php.ini script” or similar and
2. I’m no expert in any of this, hopefully some one with more knowledge will also reply and confirm, add to or correct this advice.

Good luck out there!

Thanks for the tip Joydeep.
I can see you have put a lot of time into that manual, but I really have very limited knowledge of PHP/PEAR/Linux etc. I don’t really know how to do any of the things you show there that might help.
Anyway, since Friday I have learnt a lot about php.ini and so can now better define my question.
My hosting set up looks like this:

[shared host A] <<-- I guess holds shared install of PEAR1.6.X
[[mydomain.com]] <<-- Holds PEAR installed modules
[[[public_html]]] <<-- Main site stuff
[[[[subdomain-a]]]] <<-- Holds all egw files (a.myotherdomain.net.au)
/php.ini All php.ini files in subdomain-a are identical
/setup/php.ini
[[[[subdomain-b]]]] <<-- Other subdomains

[shared host B] <<-- I guess holds shared install of PEAR1.6.X
[[myotherdomain.net.au]] <<-- ‘a’ records to direct to sub domains on shared host A
[[[public_html]]] <<-- Live website files

So the question is: how do I reference the location of PEAR modules (located at home/mydom/php/PEAR) within those two php.ini files? Nothing I try seems to work! Do all the PEAR modules need to be stored at subdomain-a? I think that could cause duplication and pain when I use PEAR modules for other things at this host. But if that’s the only way it’s going to work, I can do that.

This is very usefull info to me, but I have not found the last info I need to make it work:

In order to activate php 5, I had to put the following in .htaccess:
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 .php

I create the relvant php.ini file’s in the egroupware folder, and copied that also to setup.

The thing is: the default memory vallue is 8M.
It looks like I have to copy the php.ini to ALL folders. Is that true?