Horde is a popular and free webmail client developed by the Horde Project community. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Horde on Debian Latest.
Before starting with the installation, please ensure the following:
First, update your package list:
sudo apt update
Next, install the following packages using the apt package manager:
sudo apt install apache2 php php-curl php-imap php-ldap php-mbstring php-mysql php-xml php-zip php-gd mysql-server
Download the latest Horde package from the official website using the curl command:
curl -O https://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/horde-latest.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded tarball using the tar command:
tar -xvzf horde-latest.tar.gz
Next, move the extracted folder to the Apache web root directory:
sudo mv horde-*/ /var/www/html/horde
Now, set the correct permissions using the chmod command:
sudo chmod 755 /var/www/html/horde
Create a new database and a user for Horde using either MySQL or PostgreSQL. For this tutorial, we'll be using MySQL.
Login to the MySQL shell using the root account:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database for Horde:
CREATE DATABASE horde_db CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;
Create a new user and grant access to the database:
CREATE USER 'horde_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON horde_db.* TO 'horde_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Exit the MySQL shell:
exit
Now, copy the default Horde configuration file:
sudo cp /var/www/html/horde/config/conf.php.dist /var/www/html/horde/config/conf.php
Open the Horde configuration file using a text editor:
sudo nano /var/www/html/horde/config/conf.php
Update the database settings with the correct values:
$conf['sql']['username'] = 'horde_user';
$conf['sql']['password'] = 'password';
$conf['sql']['database'] = 'horde_db';
$conf['sql']['phptype'] = 'mysql';
$conf['sql']['protocol'] = 'tcp';
$conf['sql']['hostspec'] = 'localhost';
Save and close the file.
Now, navigate to the Horde installation page using a web browser:
http://your-server-ip/horde/setup/
Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Horde on Debian Latest. You can now use Horde to manage your emails and calendars on your server.
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