phpGroupWare FAQ

Dan Kuykendall <dan@kuykendall.org>

v1.0, 15 July 2000


phpGroupWare Frequently Asked Questions.

1. Building and Installing

1.1 Questions and Answers

Q: When I try to send file attachments, I get errors about safe mode being effect.
A: I ran into this problem after I installed Aeromail for the first time.
Try chown root.root for all files in your /phpGroupWare directory. I don't know why this is needed. Any ideas ?

Q: Why don't you just use the session class from phplib? Why not use cookies to hold the sessionid?
A: I personally don't like using cookies for something like this.
However, the session management is currently being abstracted for the applications. This means that switching to cookies will be possible for those that are interested.

Q: When I do a search, it returns the results but they have the wrong date.
A: Becuase of the way the tables are set up to handle repeating events, I need to rewrite the query. I have not had a chance to play around with it

Q: When I view the calendar, I get tons of SQL errors.
A: Make sure all users on the system belong to a group. That should clear up any problems. This is something that needs to be fixed.

Q: Will phpGroupWare run on PHP4 ?
A: Yes. It runs on both PHP3 and PHP4.

Q: Will phpGroupWare work with SSL ?
A: Sure, why not ? I am running it with mod_ssl and have had no problems. Since there are no references to http:// or https:// there should not be any problems with it.

Q: Does phpGroupWare work on any other databases ?
A: Right now, no. I have been playing around with support for mSQL, but, that will take some time. Other databases are completly unknown at this point, support for Oracle, MS-SQL, and others are planned for the future.

Q: I am having problems installing on PostgreSQL 6.x.
A: phpGroupWare is being developed with version 7.x. I tried installing it on 6.x and ran into a bunch of probelms. Unless you plan on toying around with it, your better off with 7.x.

Q: Will phpGroupWare work with Windows?
A: Yes, there several people who are using it.
Thanks Vincent Larchet <<vinz@users.sourceforge.net>> for patching anything we do that breaks phpGroupWare on NT.