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Installation guide for eGroupware on Ubuntu Server

Just a couple of questions. I am following your guide which looks to be very well written.

It mentions a plain base install. To me this is not adding any packages during the install at all. So I loaded Ubuntu 9.04 server in a virtual box. Did not select any additional packages. Ran into two problems.

1. /var/www did not exist since I did not choose to install lamp (or apache for that matter)

2. php-gd does not exist... I am guessing it should be php5-gd ?

Not trying to pick at the guide. I wish more people would write guides in plain english. I
just want to make sure I am doing this correctly.

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Started install over, chose LAMP install.
Changed php-gd to php5-gd and all went brilliantly.

Well done sir ! Now to check this out. Thank you again for bringing this to my attention as well as the write up.

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Excellent article, Jack. Thanks. I have a question. My colleague and I support about 15 different office, all located in different countries. Each is asking for collaboration, calendaring, doc mgmt software. Is it possible to set up an eGroupware server such that each office can access it BUT only has rights to calendaring, docs, etc. to THEIR specific office?

you would create a group for each office and then create a calendar for each group such that only that group could read that calendar. and then add users to the groups. i have not tested this, but i believe that should do the trick.

This is the kind of constructive articles we need to see more frequently at TR. Enough of bashing on any OS and wasting people's time. Bring up the solutions to the problems and let users decide which way to go.
Bravo!
Thanks!!!

Everything seems ok , until i go and continue to the header Admin page, it says down the bottom :

"cannot create the header.inc.php due to file permission restriction .
instead download or view the file. "

*there is no 'write' button according to Your guide

BUT neither 'download nor View' button works. they dont response when i click them . and every time i click continue it takes back me to the " Run installation tests" page.

I am really stuck on it. any step by step help would be really appreciated. Thanks

you will most likely have to alter the permissions. you could, from the command line, create the file and give it the correct permissions. so, from the directory you need header.inc.php in issue these commands:

touch header.inc.php
chmod 644 header.inc.php

then go back and you should be able to write to the file.

Anybody get it working with Active Directory for single sign on?

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i am C.Naveen Kumar.I installed Egroupware .I am getting some errors in the applications of eGroupware,especially
in Tracking System and File Upload what to do...................

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1 )Error in Tracking system we are adding a new bug after filling all the mandatory details it is not getting error and shown in the tracking system.When we specify the Assigned To field to any particular user we are getting these two errors. Please check it out and give me reply as early as possible


Warning: require_once(Net/IMAP.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
C:\xampp\htdocs\egroupware\emailadmin\inc\class.defaultimap.inc.php on line 14

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'Net/IMAP.php'
(include_path='C:\xampp\htdocs\egroupware/egw-pear;.;C:\xampp\php\pear\') in
C:\xampp\htdocs\egroupware\emailadmin\inc\class.defaultimap.inc.php on line 14


2 ) In attachment links tab we are browsing and attaching a file for that it is showing some error .we are not aware of how to rectify the error

The error is

Array
Warning: copy(links://default/apps/tracker/22/rlz.dll) [function.copy]: failed to open stream:
"links_stream_wrapper::stream_open" call failed in
C:\xampp\htdocs\egroupware\phpgwapi\inc\class.egw_link.inc.php on line 750

3 ) In the file manager application, while uploading a file also we are getting errors


Array
Warning: fopen(sqlfs://default/home/naveen/header.inc.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream:
"sqlfs_stream_wrapper::stream_open" call failed in
C:\xampp\htdocs\egroupware\phpgwapi\inc\class.vfs_stream_wrapper.inc.php on line 182

Warning: copy(vfs://default/home/naveen/header.inc.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream:
"vfs_stream_wrapper::stream_open" call failed in
C:\xampp\htdocs\egroupware\filemanager\inc\class.filemanager_ui.inc.php on line 136





Please Give me a detailed information or give me some supported links so that i can rectify the errors. Please reply me as early as possible.

Thank you for the beautiful post.

I spent the last couple of days trying to put EGW to work. I got version 1.6.003 on an Ubuntu 10.04 pc. I fresh installed pretty much everything, from Apache down to EGW. I believe I have done my best to configure all as they should be. When I try to log in, I get all the time: Your session could not be verified. Of course I am using the correct credentials as I have specified them. As far as I can see there are a lot of people stuck on this and it is quite disappointing. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Regards