[PLUG] Squirrel Mail Question

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Tue May 30 19:12:28 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 10:09 -0700, Sandy Herring wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2006, Carla Schroder wrote: 
> > On Monday 29 May 2006 9:50 pm, Vram wrote:
> > > Re: [PLUG] Squirrel Mail Question
> > >  From: Vram <lamsokvr at xprt.net>
> > >  To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" 
> > <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> > >  
> > > On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 21:22 -0700, Sandy Herring wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 29 May 2006, Vram wrote: 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi
> > > > > 
> > > > > I am having problems getting Squirrelmail running.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Anyone running this??
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > 
> > > > > Vram
> > > > 
> > > > I've got it running. What's your question?
> > > > 
> > > > Sandy
> > > 
> > > Thanks for answering
> > > 
> > > What I done so  far
> > > 
> > > Install Postfix
> > > 
> > > Install Apache with PHP
> > > 
> > > Install IMAP
> > > 
> > > Install SquirrelMail
> > 
> > ....
> > 
> > You might need to enter the appropriate PHP modules in httpd.conf. 
> > Squirrelmail is just a big ole PHP script, so you need to get PHP working 
> > first. 
> > 
> > Uncomment
> > 
> > #AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> > #AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
> > 
> > Then you'll need to configure your usual virtual hosts. Then a nice trick is 
> > to create a softlink to a /webmail directory, so users can go to 
> > domain.com/webmail:
> > 
> > # ln -s /usr/share/squirrelmail /var/www/webmail
> > 
> > Squirrelmail installs with a raft of help docs, so be sure to dig them out.
> 
> You can also set up an alias in squirrelmail.conf to take care of
> that...
> 
>     Alias /webmail /usr/share/squirrelmail
> 
> I assume by "localhost/squirrelmail" you mean you're pointing your
> browser at http://localhost/squirrelmail as opposed to trying to invoke
> it from the command line (nod yes).

Yes

> 
> You can test to make certain you've got Apache w/PHP configured
> correctly by creating the following simple php page (call it
> info.php)...
> 
> <?php
> phpinfo();
> ?>
> 
This worked perfect..

I put it in /var/www/info.php

Came right up...

PHP Version 5.1.2


Making progress??

TIA

Vram


> ...and pointing your browser at it. It should yield a wealth of
> information about your PHP configuration.
> 
> Sandy




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