[Kroupware] Kolab in FreeBSD, web administrator doesn't work

[Arjan van Leeuwen]

Hi,

I'm trying to run Kolab Server in FreeBSD 5.1. This is a short report of what 
I had to do to get it running - it still doesn't work though.

First, I had to patch the cyrus-imapd groupfile hack, because it used 
fgetgrent(), a function unavailable in BSD libc. An OS-independent 
replacement can be found in the ProFTPd sources (lib/pwgrent.c). Otherwise, 
the installation went smoothly.

When configuring, the bootstrap script runs 'hostname -f'. The '-f' switch 
does not exist in BSD hostname. 'hostname' without arguments returns the 
FQDN. The script asked for the FQDN instead, so I just typed it in. The rest 
of the configuration seemed to go smoothly too.

I then proceeded to start Kolab with the rc.kolab script. This gave me a lot 
of error messages about 'chown root.root' (correct BSD usage: chown 
root:wheel) and 'hostname -f'. I changed the occurrences of hostname -f and 
chown root.root in rc.kolab, and now I could start and stop all the Kolab 
services. A quick 'sockstat' shows that there are indeed various services 
lurking at my TCP ports.

Good. I thought. But when accessing the Web Administration with Konqueror 
(located at https://kolabserver.domain.com/, not 
https://kolabserver.domain.com/admin as indicated in the QIM), it tells me
'could not bind anonymously'
about 6 times. 

I can login as any user (username and password don't matter, it always says 
I'm 'logged in as user blabla and belong to group user' and doesn't check the 
password), but I can't do anything on the web site. 'My user settings' 
displays empty fields and, in red, 'Internal Error: could not get 
Authentication Information
' at the bottom.

Is there a configuration step in PHP somewhere that I missed, or is this 
something else? 

Thanks for your help,

Arjan

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