Installing from TarBall

The files should be installed in the webserver directory. So all you need to do is unpack the tar ball and copy the whole directory to the webserver directory

(eg. /home/httpd/html for default apache configuration in many linux distros).

You may have to get required permissions to do this. Contact your system administrator if you dont have the permission to write to your webserver directory.

Installing from CVS

Grabbing a copy from CVS is not as hard as it may seem. You will need to have a cvs client installed. Then try the following commands:

export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.phpgroupware.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phpgroupware'

cvs login (just hit enter when prompted for a password)

cvs checkout phpgroupware

export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.phpgroupware.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phpgroupware'

cvs login (just hit enter when prompted for a password)

cvs checkout -d dirname phpgroupware

Setup / Configure phpGroupWare

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The Setup Program

Then point your browser to phpgroupware/setup/ which will create (or upgrade) the database tables. You wil be asked to login, using the password set in header.inc.php. Setup will attempt to determine what version of the phpGroupWare database you have installed, and upgrade to the most recent version.

	Note
	The developers are concentrating on getting the beta working, and have not spent a great deal of time building upgrade scripts from the alpha versions of phpGroupWare. You are advised to backup your existing alpha database before running the setup script to avoid problems!

If you get no error messages, continue on to phpgroupware/setup/config.php to configure phpGroupWare to your system.

If you are using the email system you will need to create a temporary directory where file uploads will be stored. For security reasons, you should chown nobody.nobody and chmod 700 to that directory. Depending on your system configuration. Default installs of Apache normally run as the user nobody. You may need your system administrator to do this for you if you do not have root access.

If you do not have access to root, create this file and run it.

?php if (mkdir("/path/to/temp/directory",0700)) { echo "Directory created successfully"; } else { echo "Error creating directory"; } ?

Testing the install

If your config is setup properly you can now login. Point your browser to the installed location and login with the username demo and the password is 1234 At this point it would be a good idea to create a new user with administrative privileges and delete the old one.

Installing additional applications

Once you have the core phpGroupWare install up and running, you may want to download and install additional applications.

You should consult any README or INSTALL files that come with the new application first, as most require you to create additional tables in the database, and add additional translation data to the lang table (typically a file called lang.sql)

You install the new application within the phpGroupWare install tree by copying the application directory into the phpGroupWare install location, and enabling the application through the Administration page.

For example, this is the process to install the Headlines application (see http://sourceforge.net/phpgwapps/ for more on this and other applications).

• Download the .tar.gz file for the application, or check out the source with cvs with

  export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.phpgroupware.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phpgwapps'
  cvs login (just hit enter if prompted for a password)
  cvs co headlines
  

• Move the headlines directory into your phpGroupWare install directory.

• Log into phpGroupWare as an administrative user, and go to the Administration page.

• In the first section, choose the Applications link.

• Click on add, and fill in the form.

  Application name should be identical to the name of the directory you moved into the phpGroupWare install, in this case use headlines

  Application Title is shown in the navigation bar and other places to refer to the new application. Enter Headlines for this example.

  Enabled can be used to disable an application for all users temporially. You should normal check the box to enable the application.

• Back in the Administration page, you need to enable the application for specific users or user groups by editing them, and checking the new Headlines box that appears in the middle of the account editing page.

• Once you have added the Headlines app to your account, you should see a Headlines entry in the Administration and Preferences pages, and there should be an icon for the Headlines application in the navigation bar.

• Once you enable a few of the Headlines sites through the Administration page link, you should see headlines grabbed from the sites you selected when you click on the Headlines icon in the navigation bar.

I get "Unable to open mailbox" when using the email application

At the time of this writing (2000-09-27) you must use the same username and password in phpGroupWare that you use to log into your mail server. If you change your password and it still isn't working, try logging out of phpGroupWare (the rightmost icon in the navigation bar) and then log back in.

An preference page to edit the email settings is being developed, and should appear shortly after the first beta release.

It seems to hang when I try to read my mail

This is often a problem if you are using POP3 instead of IMAP, and you have more than a few hundred messages in your mailbox.

By default, php is set up to time-out a request that takes over 30 seconds to complete. phpGroupWare must do a lot of work the first time your POP3 mailbox is opened, and every time you get new mail, which may take more than the 30 second timeout.

You can either clean up your mailbox with another mail program, or add the line

set_time_limit(0);

to the top of the inc/phpgwapi/phpgw_msg_pop3.inc.php file, just before the line class msg extends msg_common

If you choose to edit the file, be patient when loading a large POP3 mailbox - the author tested against a mailbox with 2500 messages in it, but it took 15 minutes to load the page. We highly suggest you use IMAP if you expect to have more than a few hundred messages in your mailbox.

When I log in I see the directory listing instead of a web page

You are using Apache, this often means you need to add .php to the DirectoryIndex line in your httpd.conf file. For example:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.php3 index.html index.htm index.cgi

I get garbage that looks like code when I go to the phpGroupWare URL

This is often because you have php3 installed, which does not map .php to the PHP engine. For PHP3:

AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 .php

For PHP4:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 .php

Creating Accounts

To create a user account goto User Accounts section of Administration and the click the Add button. Now a form would be displayed. FIXME : should i explain the process :-). After submiting the form you would be sent back to the accounts page and you can now see the new user you have just created. Isn't it easy !!!

Maintaining Accounts

Maintaining user accounts is also very easy. Just go to the User Accounts section . Now you can see the list of the current users and there logins. You can now either view their ops or can even edit them. FIXMEAGIN: need i say anything more :->.

Creating Accounts

Click the Add button. Now fill the form by selecting the existing users and the persmissions you want to include in the new group.And you r done.

Maintaining Accounts

One has always a option to view and edit the groups when ever needed

Installing

Updating

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