Re: permission problem

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On Wed, June 3, 2009 2:09 am, Theo Richel wrote:
> I have managed to edit the config file and now there appears a login
> page. However when I give in my credentials I get the following message:
>
> Error opening ../data/default_pref
> Could not create initial preference file!
> /home/richel/mainwebsite_html/squirrelmail-1.4.19/data/ should be
> writable by user apache
> Please contact your system administrator and report this error.
>
> Permissions for both the squirremail directory as the data directory are
> set to 777.

Never do that!

Your owner/group should be apache.apache:

chown apache.apache * -R

and things should quiet down a bit.


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