Re: Squirrelmail Gotcha

[David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> List,
>
> 	Most of you know this, but it caught me off-guard. With Arch (with good 
> security) if you define your squirrelmail data and attachment directories 
> outside your document root (which you should), then you must explicitly add 
> the path to the parent directory of data & attachment to the open_basedir path 
> in /etc/php/php.ini. Example:
>
> open_basedir = 
> /srv/http/:/srv/www:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/usr/local/share/sqmail
>
> 	Restart the web server and your good. Without it, you are dead in the 
> water...

Yeah, I got hit by that a while back too after a SM upgrade.  Annoying. 
 I imagine it's something that should be part of a Squirrelmail wiki 
page, but we don't currently have one.

DR