Egroupware is too buggy to use

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igor92128 · Post by **igor92128** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:08 am

I've been installing Egroupware for a couple hours now, but it seems like the code is so buggy that I can't even use it. First of all, during the installation, it required me to create a file called header.inc.php. I created the file and copied it to the Egroupware root directory like it said, then I clicked continue. After clicking that, I was greeted with a fatal error message regarding this function:

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_cache_limiter() in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/egroupware/header.inc.php on line 83

I was pretty frustrated and made about 10 attempts to try to reconfigure the file, but nothing worked so I ended up commenting out the function in the file.
Then I was taken to the /setup directory for admin setup, but there was a message about an invalid IP address so it would'nt let me connect. I played around with the setup_acl attribute but no matter what I tried, the message persisted so I commented out that entire line to progress further. I then continued to the admin setup, which went pretty smoothly. I had configured Egroupware and I was good to go...or not. When I tried to login to Egroupware for the first time, I was again greeted with a fatal error. like this:

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_set_cookie_params() in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/egroupware/phpgwapi/inc/class.sessions_php4.inc.php on line 50

So I just did what worked for me before and commented out that line in the file, but more and more fatal errors kept popping up until eventually I was getting errors about SQL, encrption and functions - 3 to a page. I just gave up then and now I don't know what to think. Has anyone successfully installed Egroupware on Gentoo? It seems like its plagued with bugs. Maybe they forgot to implement these functions and it somehow slipped past QA, if it exists. I don't know.

Igor

Dark_Hunter · Post by **Dark_Hunter** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 3:01 am

it seems to be that you didn't compile your php with session-support

try an USE="session" emerge mod_php php

it should function

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:13 am

Boef wrote:it seems to be that you didn't compile your php with session-support

try an USE="session" emerge mod_php php

it should function

The only problem that I have had with using USE on the command line like that is that it won't be remembered during recompiles and upgrades to that package. To have it saved and used each time you emerge mod_php (or update via portage) create a file (if it doesn't exist already) called

/etc/portage/package.use

Then put the following line in it:

dev-php/mod_php session
dev-php/php session

good luck,

Buzz

igor92128 · Post by **igor92128** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:51 am

I already switched to PhpGroupware and it works pretty good. Except when I try to access Notes, I just get a white screen and no content. I played around with the permissions and it still doesn't work.

Igor