Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> On 7/18/06, Don Russell <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Paul Lesniewski wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/14/06, Rainer Sokoll <R.Sokoll@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 08:13:41AM -0400, Chris Hilts wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Once you have HTTPS working, then I recommend using the secure_login
>>>>> plugin for SquirrelMail
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> What is that plugin good for?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It does what you set up apache to do but ONLY for SquirrelMail.
>>>
>> No need for a plugin, configure Apache to do it... ONLY for SquirrelMail...
>>
>
> Sure, of course, but the point is that some people don't run Apache,
> some people are in environments where they don't have access or
> permission to modify Apache configuration, etc. The plugin is
> probably second-best solution if you DO have access to Apache conf
> files, but that's not an assumption you can make for all SM admins.
>
True, my post was really meant as an alternative to the post about using
a virtual host and redirecting port 80 traffic to use https. My method
is a little more robust than that.... and has finer granularity.
>
>> Check /etc/httpd/conf.d/squirrelmail.conf
>>
>> That file already defines an alias so domain/webmail takes you to
>> squirrelmail....
>>
>
> That is NOT a standard file (as far as SquirrelMail package goes -- is
> probably a 2nd party packager's idea), so you should include
> information about what system you are referring to when you give such
> advice.
>
I'm running Fedora Core 5.... The problem I have, is I don't know what's
a "standard file" and what's been added by the FedoraCore package people.
>> I added the following and it works great!
>>
>> <Location ~ /webmail>
>> RewriteEngine on
>> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} != on
>> RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}/webmail/ [R,L]
>> </Location>
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