[Centos] Apache config for Squirrelmail?

[ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca (James B. Byrne)]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:43:09 +0200 Micha Silver <micha@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:


> James B. Byrne wrote:

>> 
>> What I desire is for users to reach the webmail interface
>> directly from a host name and not require them to append
>> /webmail to the base url.  What configuration directives 
>> do I need to accomplish this? 
>>

Micha Silver <micha@xxxxxxxxxxx> replied:

> I think what you need is something like: Redirect permanent
> http://webmail.harte-lyne.ca
> https://webmail.harte-lyne.ca/webmail 

This does not work.

The altered configuration file is:

#
# SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP.
#
Alias                   /webmail        /usr/share/squirrelmail


Redirect permanent      http://webmail.harte-lyne.ca \
                        https://webmail.harte-lyne.ca/webmail

<Directory /usr/share/squirrelmail>

        RewriteEngine       on
        RewriteCond         %{SERVER_PORT} !=443
        RewriteRule         ^.* - [F]
        ErrorDocument       403 https://inet07.hamilton.harte-
lyne.ca/webmail

</Directory>

<VirtualHost>
ServerAlias webmail.*
ServerAdmin postmaster.webmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
DocumentRoot /usr/share/squirrelmail

<Directory /usr/share/squirrelmail>

        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all

        DirectoryIndex  index.php
        RewriteEngine   on

        RewriteCond     %{SERVER_PORT} !=443
        RewriteRule     ^.* - [F]
        ErrorDocument   403 https://inet07.hamilton.harte-
lyne.ca/webmail

</Directory>

Alias /webmail /usr/share/squirrelmail

</VirtualHost>

http://webmail.harte-lyne.ca/ goes to the CentOS page
http://webmail.harte-lyne.ca/webmail goes to squirrelmail

This is an esoteric exercise for me so any of you with extensive 
experience in url rewriting please feel free to offer any advice.  
As far as I can see the presence of the index.php in 
/usr/share/squirrelmail should work straight off without any need 
for this but it does not.

Regards,
Jim

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