Squirrelmail

gallet · 08-05-2003, 10:17 AM

Hi, im using redhat 7.3 and i installed Squirrel Mail and my Apache server is up and running. However, when i go to the browser....

It says that if i type "http://yourdomain/webmail/index.php" , i should be able to see it but i can't. When i try, i get this:

"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /webmail/index.php on this server."

I have given permission to /var/www/html/webmail/index.php for user and group apache 777 and it doesnt work.

I need help accessing that login screen....any help is appreciated..thank u

tangle · 08-05-2003, 10:26 AM

Does the webmail directory have permissions set for users to enter it?

gallet · 08-05-2003, 10:34 AM

I am sorry but which permissions im going to set for what kind of users

tangle · 08-05-2003, 10:38 AM

I think that you need to set the permissions on the /var/www/html/webmail . I believe that you need to let the people that need to execute the index.php have enter access to that directory.

gallet · 08-05-2003, 10:41 AM

I am sorry but which permissions im going to set for what kind of users

gallet · 08-05-2003, 10:43 AM

but I gave permissions for user apache and group apache, i have done from the stuff from www.squirrelmail.org

tangle · 08-05-2003, 10:48 AM

I believe that chmod 770 should do it to start with. You should place all the users that are gowing to acces there mail on the web in a group and give that group access to that directory and file. You can do this by chown apache.webmail /var/www/html/webmail. If the name of that group that the users are in is named webmain.

gallet · 08-05-2003, 10:53 AM

i am sorry but i am newbie how can i do it

tangle · 08-05-2003, 10:58 AM

I believe that you can make a new group with the groupadd command. Then edit the /etc/group file and add the users you want. Or use GUI program that comes with Red Hat.

gallet · 08-05-2003, 01:32 PM

ok i have done everything about permissions, but now when i put www.example.com/webmail/index.php i can see this:
<?php

/**
* index.php -- Displays the main frameset
*
* Copyright (c) 1999-2003 The SquirrelMail Project Team
* Licensed under the GNU GPL. For full terms see the file COPYING.
*
* Redirects to the login page.
*
* $Id: index.php,v 1.14 2002/12/31 12:49:29 kink Exp $
*/

header("Location: src/login.php\n\n");
exit();

?>

david_ross · 08-05-2003, 01:37 PM

Have you got php installed?
rpm -qa | grep php

If so then you may need to uncomment the AddType and LoadModule lines for php.

gallet · 08-05-2003, 01:39 PM

when i did rpm -qa | grep php i could see:

php-ldap-4.1.2-6
asp2php-0.75.17-1
php-4.1.2-6
asp2php-gtk-0.75.17-1
php-imap-4.1.2-6
php-pgsql-4.1.2-6
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #1819308097 retrieved, skipping.

david_ross · 08-06-2003, 12:24 PM

It is installed. Uncomment the AddType and LoadModule directives relating to php in httpd.conf

gallet · 08-06-2003, 03:21 PM

It is everything uncomment......wha shall i do?

tangle · 08-06-2003, 08:31 PM

Quote:

error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #1819308097 retrieved, skipping.

I am no Red Hat expert (or Linux for that matter), but maybe that error message is the problem. Maybe the PHP rpm is messed up.