Date: 02/18/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, web, hosting, apache

I have Dreamhost for my mail and hosting package, but I abhore Squirrelmail. So I'm researching other PHP webmail systems that I can install without too much trouble, because I'm not very familiar with installing things from the source.

I loved Horde when I had them on my previous host, so I'm trying to install that. I haven't quite gotten to the install part yet - I'm on the Prerequisites part! I've been starting to install PHP5 (with these and these instructions) and I'm trying to make sure I get all the extra packages downloaded and whatnot before I start with the configure script. But I'm confused at a few things.

1. Dreamhost says they like PHP to run as CGI but the Horde instructions say to configure it with --with=apache or -apxs or -apxs2. Neither of the install steps tutorials have it listed; would something bad happen if I ran it with -apxs?

2. The tutorials also have --without-pear in the configuring, but I think I need it for Horde. Would I need to download additional packages before installing or can I just wait and install it afterwards?

3. The Horde instructions say I need PECL modules but I absolutely cannot get fileinfo to install. It's late and I lost the error message, but since I'm doing everything from scratch, can someone tell me what I should be setting up beforehand and seeing (or not seeing) during installation?

Thanks all.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/542333.html