phpGroupWare - Installation & Security HOWTO

Problems

First read, check and understand the PHP Configuration documentation

A collection of problems from users that cover a wide variety of subjects (many having nothing to do with phpgroupware)

If you decide to post to the mailing lists or the irc forum with a problem, please include the name and version number of:

name and version of your webserver (on redhat/fedora/mandrake the default webserver is apache, get the version rpm -qa | grep httpd)
name and version of your database (on redhat etc rpm -qa | grep mysql or rpm -qa | grep postgresql)
version of php (on redhat etc rpm -qa | grep php)
version of phpgw (the login-box gives u the version and it might also be on the bottom of other screens), and the source of the version

We're just adding to these as they come up .. so be patient

Before posting double check that you have READ AND FOLLOWED THE PREVIOUS SECTIONS OF THIS DOCUMENT !!

most people can get apache and php installed but many people then run into problems

php pages display as source code .. look into the php settings you should have in httpd.conf
make sure you have installed php-imap (you need php-imap in order to connect to an imap server from php) and php-pgsql and php-mysql (you need one of these in order to connect to your database server) if you intend to use any of them (they're usually separate software packages)

System setup for Email gets so many problems that it gets it's own section: email-FAQ. Here's some general info to get you started.

imap and pop3 is for recieving, smtp is for sending
can't send or can't receive. Before you do anything else, please check your server settings in Admin, Email, Site Configuration and also try to use email through another email client program
small size limit on email (0.5 MB). For apache 2 and up, there is a setting in php.conf that says LimitRequestBody 524288 which is 512k, change it to a higher size (for 8meg LimitRequestBody 8388608) and restart your apache webserver
email app folder list includes .dot files in my home directory. Look into your imap setup and make sure your email server is putting you email in a subdir of your home directory, not your home directory itself
sometimes I get Variable passed to each() error on class.mail_dcom_imap_sock.inc.php, and sometimes it works fine - socket support isn't finished, install php-imap