> Hello, > I am getting the following error message after entering valid login > credentials at the SquirrelMail Login screen: > > "Error opening ../data/default_pref > Could not create initial preference file! > ../config/D:\Data\Data/ should be writable by user httpd > Please contact your system administrator and report this error." > > Any help is greatly appreciated! > > Some details: > > - I have set the permissions on the Windows 'Everyone' account to > 'Modify' for my 'Data' and 'Attachements' folders > - OS - Windows Server 2003 R2 > - Web Server - Apache 5.5 > - SquirrelMail Version 1.4.9a > - PHP Version 5.2.1 > - Browser - IE7 > - IMAP Server - hMailServer Version 4.3.1 > - I did not change any 'Plugin' related options when I installed so I > am not sure exactly what plugins I do or do not have activated > - To install the package I unzipped the files to a 'mail' subdirectory > on my web server. I created a 'D:\Data\Data' folder and a > 'D:\Data\Attachements' folder. I ran the 'conf.pl' script and > configured the various options. Use slash (/) instead of backslash (\) in conf.pl utility. D:/Data/Data D:/Data/Attachements If your PHP install can't understand path with slashes, then you will have to modify paths in config.php. -- Tomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
