On Sun, October 30, 2011 11:02 pm, sean darcy wrote: > On 10/30/2011 04:04 PM, sean darcy wrote: >> On 10/30/2011 03:37 PM, michael crane wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, October 30, 2011 6:47 pm, sean darcy wrote: >>>> running configtest.php: >>>> >>>> SquirrelMail configtest >>>> >>>> This script will try to check some aspects of your SquirrelMail >>>> configuration and point you to errors whereever it can find them. You >>>> need to go run conf.pl in the config/ directory first before you run >>>> this script. >>>> >>>> SquirrelMail version: 1.4.22-2.fc15 >>>> Config file version: 1.4.0 >>>> Config file last modified: 30 October 2011 15:25:44 >>>> Checking PHP configuration... >>>> PHP version 5.3.8 OK. >>>> Running as N/A(N/A) / N/A(N/A) >>>> display_errors: >>>> error_reporting: 22527 >>>> variables_order OK: GPCS. >>>> PHP extensions OK. Dynamic loading is disabled. >>>> ERROR: You have configured PHP not to allow short tags >>>> (short_open_tag=off). This shouldn't be a problem with SquirrelMail or >>>> any plugin coded coded according to the SquirrelMail Coding >>>> Guidelines, >>>> but if you experience problems with PHP code being displayed in some >>>> of >>>> the pages and changing setting to "on" solves the problem, please file >>>> a >>>> bug report against the failing plugin. The correct contact information >>>> is most likely to be found in the plugin documentation. >>>> >>>> Checking paths... >>>> ERROR: Data dir (/home/vmail/squirrelmail/data/) does not >>>> exist! >>>> >>>> >>>> BUT, >>>> >>>> cd /home/vmail/squirrelmail/data/ >>>> [root@mailserver data]# pwd >>>> /home/vmail/squirrelmail/data >>>> >>>> ls -l /home/vmail/squirrelmail/ >>>> total 8 >>>> drwx-wx---. 2 root apache 4096 Oct 29 20:14 attachment >>>> drwx-wx---. 2 root apache 4096 Oct 29 20:13 data >>>> >>>> Any help appreciated, >>>> >>>> BTW, should I enable PHP dynamic loading? If so, how? >>>> >>>> sean >>> >>> the directories are not readable by apache ? >>> >>> mick >>> >> >> I was following the instructions at >> http://squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-3.html: >> >> Prepare data and attachment directories >> ................. >> Both of these directories should be writable (not readable) by the web >> server and no one else (except you). In a Unix or Linux environment, >> that means that they should be owned by the root user if possible >> (otherwise whatever user you log in as), their group should be the same >> as that that the web server runs as (e.g. "www-data", "apache", >> "nobody", "wheel", etc.), and their permissions should be 0730 >> (rwx-wx---). >> >> sean > > > To belabor the obvious, this means you cannot login: > > SquirrelMail version 1.4.22-2.fc15 > By the SquirrelMail Project Team > ERROR > Error opening ../data/default_pref > Default preference file not found or not readable! > Please contact your system administrator and report this error. > > sean sorry I can't really help not been sufficiently clued up. on my local installation I make all the squirrelmail directories 755 apache.apache and the files 644 apache.apache (apart from conf.pl) whether I'm supposed to do that I don't know. mick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook in minutes. BlackBerry App World™ now supports Android™ Apps for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™. Discover just how easy and simple it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev ----- 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