[NBLUG/talk] SquirrelMail and PHP.

[ME]

> SquirrelMail originally put the default_pref file in
> /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/default_pref but I moved it to try and
> troubleshoot the problem.
>
> I don't have a data directory anywhere on my filesystem that relates to
> SquirrelMail.  Nor does the prefs directory that the SquirrelMail RPM
> created have a .htaccess file.
>
> I chmod'd the directory and file to 775 and made sure it was owned by
> apache.apache (user.group).  I also verified (yesterday) that my apache
> configuration is set to run as apache.apache.
>
> Could the problem be that I don't have the .htaccess file??  (Seems
> unlikely
> to me)

If you are set on using the present location for the "data" and referentce
of SM, then next step is to make sure that each folder/directory is
configured to at least offer +x access for everyone ("r" is not required
for folders/dirs that lead up to the "prefs" folder, but the "prefs"
folder/dir does need to be owned by user.group apache.apache as you have
shown.)

could you report what these provide?:
# ls -la /usr | grep share
# ls -la /usr/share | grep squirrelmail
# ls -la /usr/share/squirrelmail |grep prefs
# ls -la /usr/share/squirrelmail/prefs

I suspect there may be a symlink to another space, or a directory that is
owned by a different user/group and is not set to "+x" in the path.

(Getting a few steps closer each time)

Thanks,
-ME