Re: Can't find existing Data dir on Fedora 15

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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


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