My RHES 4.0 has both Apache and Squirrelmail. Did you check up2date to see if Squirrelmail isn't available through Red Hat? On 7/26/05, Dave Ihnat <ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gentlefolk, > > I don't often post asking for advice, but in this case, I'd love it if > someone can give a 90-second answer that precludes hours of research. > > I just installed RH Professional Workstation, and am trying to install > the latest release of Squirrelmail. By default, Apache 2 is installed and > running from the RH RPMs; the copy of Squirrelmail is from their website > (squirrelmail.org). I will note that I've much experience building/ > installing/configuring Apache 1.3, but not 2. > > Everything went well through running the Squirrelmail config. > Squirrelmail itself was installed in the document root as sm > (/var/www/html/sm). I did move the data directory to /var/squirrelmail, > as well as creating the attachments directory there. For both, I added > permissions in the Apache config file of the form: > > <Directory "/var/squirrelmail/data"> > Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options > Allow from all > Order allow,deny > </Directory> > > (Yes, it's too open; this is the result of trying to get it to work. > I'll tighten it later.) In all cases, everything is owner/group apache, > with permissions set appropriately (I believe.) > > I also added a GIF file to the directory /var/www/html/sm/images to replace > the default squirrelmail image. > > It *mostly* works--except (a) nothing I can do allows Squirrelmail to > write to the data directory, and (b) the GIF file can't be read. > > For the data directory, I've opened Linux filesystem permissions as > far as 777 on the directory in testing (and on the parent directories), > AND moved it back under the 'sm' directory to see if being outside the > document root made a difference. (Obviously, it didn't.) > > For the image, I get the default "Forbidden" screen--plus "Additionally, a > 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to > handle the request." This would have to be a default document configured > by the RH Apache RPM, since I haven't modified anything in error handling. > > The curious thing is, if I convert the image to a PNG file using a > locally- compiled version of gif2png, it DOES display, so this isn't a > filesystem permissions error. (No, that's not the solution--I need to > be able to display GIFs on demand, too.) Doesn't the default RH Apache > 2 config display GIFs by default? > > Pointers on this would be greatly welcomed. And if you want to throw in, > "It's *this* obvious--you should have KNOWN that!" comments, they're in order, > too. > > TIA, > -- > Dave Ihnat > ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
