Using native apache with kolab

[alex Potter]

On Thursday 03 Dec 2009 08:13:54 Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> The configuration should be no real problem. In former times we used a  
> special LDAP authentication module but the newer apaches do not make  
> this necessary anymore. So the configuration should have become more  
> portable. Of course you need to extract the relevant bits for the  
> different sites from the Kolab Apache configuration. This is a little  
> bit of work as I don't consider our current configuration files to be  
> very clean. The issue Richard mentioned relates to that.
> 
> There is one caveat though: PHP. You need to ensure that your original  
> Apache provides a mod-PHP that is completely compatible with the one  
> within the Kolab server. And that one has some Kolab specific patches!  
> Depending on the distribution you use there might be native PHP  
> packages patched for Kolab (Debian/Suse). If you try to do this  
> yourself you will need to invest some time and there is a good chance  
> to overlook a detail that will lead to problems with the web  
> applications involved.
> 
> The Kolab specific PHP patches can be removed once we move to Horde 4.  
> But I plan this for 2011 at the moment.
> 

Thanks to both Gunnar and Richard for their helpful replies. I now have both 
time and a test machine available, so I'm able to start playing...

I plan to use an Ubuntu distribution. Would it be more helpful to others if I 
used a different one?


Regards

alex