Paul Lesniewski wrote: >>>> I have just installed Squirrelmail 1.4.15. >>>> >>>> The errors are the same. >>>> >>>> 1. Squirrelmail configtest said: >>>> >>>> SquirrelMail version: 1.4.15 >>>> Config file version: 1.4.0 >>>> Config file last modified: 18 June 2008 14:38:34 >>>> Checking PHP configuration... >>>> PHP version 5.2.5 OK. >>>> display_errors: >>>> error_reporting: 6143 >>>> variables_order OK: GPCS. >>>> PHP extensions OK. Dynamic loading is disabled. >>>> Checking paths... >>>> >>>> ERROR: Data dir (/var/spool/squirrelmail/data/) does not exist! >>>> >>>> 2. Squirrelmail login: >>>> Error opening ../data/default_pref >>>> Could not create initial preference file! >>>> /var/spool/squirrelmail/data/ should be writable by user httpd The important bit here being 'user httpd' are you sure the user/group name for Apache has not changed during the Suse upgrade. >>>> Please contact your system administrator and report this error. >>>> >>>> open_basedir is not set, safe_mode is off. >>> >>> did you check the permissions on the data dir? It should be accessible by >>> the apache owner. Also please check if removing the trailing / changes >>> anything. >> >> of course, I have checked the permissions of >> /var/spool/squirrelmail/data/ directory. >> Yesterday I set the permissions from /var/spool/squirrelmail/data/ >> to 777 to test it. The same error. >> This problem is not easy to solve. > > What are the permissions on the files inside it? Why don't you show a > listing of it here? You should also check the permissions on all the > directories leading up to it to see that the web server can change > into them (usually means "other" has "x" permission on each > directory). Not just permissions but the owner and group of the directories and files, been caught by that one before. -- Paul Carpenter | paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <http://www.pcserviceselectronics.co.uk/> PC Services <http://www.pcserviceselectronics.co.uk/fonts/> Timing Diagram Font <http://www.gnuh8.org.uk/> GNU H8 - compiler & Renesas H8/H8S/H8 Tiny <http://www.badweb.org.uk/> For those web sites you hate ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ----- 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
