On Tue, January 22, 2008 13:40, Arthur Dent wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:16:03PM -0800, Wm Mussatto wrote: >> On Tue, January 22, 2008 10:44, Arthur Dent wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:09:26AM -0800, Wm Mussatto wrote: >> >> On Tue, January 22, 2008 04:12, Arthur Dent wrote: >> >> > >> >> The address is a function of how your webserver (I'm assuming apache) >> >> has >> >> aliased it. I run debian so you may have to find the RH equivalents: >> >> If you have an /etc/squirrelmail directory look in it for an >> apache.conf >> >> file. There should be an alieas line which begins >> >> Alias /webmail ... <- where ... is the actual location of the >> >> squirrelmail >> >> sources Change the '/webmail' to whatever and restart apache. >> >> >> > Thanks for that! It's definitely put me on the path to a solution. Now >> > when I >> > navigate to my SM webmail I get the URL >> > http://mydomain/mymsgs/src/login.php >> > which is great! >> > >> > However, this is only the login screen. When I successfully log in the >> URL >> > reads http://mydomain/mymsgs/src/webmail.php. >> > >> > As I am not at one of my clients where webmail is blocked today, I >> can't >> > say if this >> > will result in it being filtered or not. I suspect however it might >> be. >> > >> > If I do need to get rid of this reference in the URL I guess I am >> going to >> > have to change the name of the file webmail.php and change any calling >> > references to it - Am I right? >> > >> > I have grepped the squirrelmail directory (# grep webmail.php >> > /usr/share/squirrelmail/src/*) and found that >> > webmail.php is referenced in the following files: >> > /usr/share/squirrelmail/src/mailto.php: >> > /usr/share/squirrelmail/src/options.php: >> > /usr/share/squirrelmail/src/redirect.php: >> > and of course in webmail.php itself. >> > >> > Would I have to change all references in all these files (and are >> there >> > any >> > I've missed)? >> > >> > Is this the right way to approach this? Can anyone suggest a more >> elegant >> > (and >> > more maintainable!) solution? >> > >> > Thanks for your help so far. Much appreciated! >> > >> > AD >> If you changed the 'Alias' line in the apache.conf file it will make all >> references appear to be at the new address. SM AFAIK is page relative. >> In fact if you use vlogin plugin you can use different Alias lines and >> control the appearance (Thanks Paul) along with a lot more. You should >> not have to change the source files at all unless Red Hat has done >> something truly strange. >> >> If you changed the source files, change them back and modify the >> apache.conf file or its equivalent. Hope this helps. > > Sorry, I'm not sure I quite understand. I have changed the Alias line in > the > apache.conf file as you suggested and it does certainly work for the root > of > the URL that is presented in the browser. > Previously, the URL was > http://mydomain/webmail/src/login.php > ^^^^^^^ > > Now, after changing apache.conf, as I indicated above, the initial > URL is: > http://mydomain/mymsgs/src/login.php > ^^^^^^ > which is a good start. > > Unfortunately, having logged in to SM the next URL that appears in the > browser > is: > http://mydomain/mymsgs/src/webmail.php > ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ > I'm guessing that, having logged in, SM calls the php script called > "webmail.php" which exists in the directory /usr/share/squirrelmail/src/ > and unfortunately this name appears in the browser URL. > > So if I want to avoid the word "webmail" ever appearing in a browser URl, > I presume I will need to > rename the php script called "webmail.php" to be something like > "mymsgs.php", > but if I do that I will have to find all places where "webmail.php" is > called > and change them to "mymsgs.php" otherwise SM simply won't work. Or am I > mistaken? > > I am very grateful for your help in this. At this stage I'm not even sure > that > it is the occurrence of the word "webmail" in the URL that is causing it > to be > blocked (or if it is a more sophisticated form of filtering), but until I > eliminate it I can't be certain. > > Thanks again. > > > AD You are correct, I misunderstood. Sorry. Yes, unfortunately you will have to re-apply those changes whenever you do an update. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
