Hello!
I am trying to configure an Apache2 webserver using name-based virtual hosts, and I want to offer web-based email along with the virtual hosting. I have looked at OpenWebMail's features, and it's a very nice package. I have it installed and working on the Apache server, but here's the issue:
How can I configure the server so that each virtual host can access the OpenWebmail system from it's own domain name? The standard OpenWebmail configuration requires that you enter [ip address of server]/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl
That's a real pain for most users, because they can't remember what the IP address or any of that stuff is!

How can I configure Apache so that OpenWebmail can be accessed at port 8383 on each virtual host, just like most web-based email programs: [domain-name]:8383
It seems to be logical, but when I try creating a virtual host like <VirtualHost *:8383> it seems like the server ignores this port (yes I configured iptables to pass traffic on this port and restarted Apache).

Thanks for any advice!

Krasl

Add the port 8383 to the "Listen" directive of your httpd.conf to see if it helps

OK, I set the Listen directive as follows
Listen 80
Listen 8383

and that seemed to work, at least making the server listen on port 8383. I get the Apache placeholder page when going to [server]:8383

Now, I created the VirtualHost directive as follows:
<VirtualHost *:8383>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/openwebmail
ScriptAlias /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
</VirtualHost>

If I go to [server]:8383 I see the OpenWebmail HELP system. I know there's a redirect.html file there also, so if I go to [server]:8383/redirect.html it takes me to the OpenWebmail login page, but none of the pictures load because it's trying to access the cgi-bin/openwebmail directory, and the document root is already set to cgi-bin/openwebmail, so it's actually looking in ./openwebmail/openwebmail for everything... ugh.
So if I change the VirtualHost to:
<VirtualHost *:8383>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ScriptAlias /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
Redirect permanent / ht tp://[server]/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl
</VirtualHost>
[Note that I didn't really put a space between ht and tp, but the forum software won't let me put "links" until I've posted at least 5 times.]

This seems to work until I use Virtualmin to create another virutal host. Then it can't find anything at [server]/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl

??????

Thank you!

Krasl

You must have a "ServerName" directive inside each <VirtualHost *:8383>...</VirtualHost> to give your server a name.
Also your ScriptAlias should look like this:Regards

But the problem is: I don't want users to have to type :8383 and then /cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl
I want them to be able to simply type :8383 and it goes to the right page for them to log in.

Is this possible?

Thanks!

Krasl

Did you try it, to see if it works? I.e. when you go to: http://virtualhost:8383 does it brings you to the openwebmail page? Then it's that page that must access the cgi-bin directory defined for that virtualhost. If that does'n work, looking at the logs should give you a hint about how to correct the DocumentRoot and the ScriptAlias directives.