Thanks guys. Looking into my config.php showd the stringd to be a string of garbage. I edited them to the correct path and it fired right up. Thanks again.
Greg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan HINCKLEY Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 5:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SM-USERS] RE: Error opening ../data/default_pref At 13:51 16/09/2003, Listmail \(DDS Asia Pacific\) wrote: >$data_dir = '../data/'; >$attachment_dir = "../data/"; > >When editing config.php by running conf.pl, I was unable to enter the >'proper' Windows path to the data folder ie: f:\website\webmail\data as it >always defaulted by adding a / on the end of the path ie: >f:\website\webmail\data/ > >I do remember something about having to change a detect delimiter setting >but have forgotten it now. Email me if you want me to email my config.php >to you so you can check the differences. Check that the data dir isn't inheriting some security settings from the SM folder. I have Everone set to List,Read,Write, and the IIS set to the full set of privileges for that folder. Here are my config.php lines there: $data_dir = SM_PATH . 'data/'; $attachment_dir = SM_PATH . 'data/attachments/'; as I recall you can do the second line as: $data_dir = SM_PATH . 'data/'; $attachment_dir = $data_dir . '/attachments/'; >From: GVT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >2003-09-15 08:57 > Hey all, > > I'm running SM 1.4.1 on a win2k server (SP4) using IIS5. > > I've muddled through the install process and am getting the following error > after logging in: > > Error opening ../data/default_pref > Could not create initial preference file! > ..//inetpub/rainwalk/root/squirrel/data/ should be writable by user httpd > Please contact your system administrator and report this error. > > I've opened up access rights on that directory to full control to everyone > but I still get it, so obviously something else is wrong. Can someone help? > > Greg > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >Welcome to geek heaven. >http://thinkgeek.com/sf >-- >squirrelmail-users mailing list >List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 >List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dan Hinckley t: (41 22) 999 0183 Information Management Group f: (41 22) 999 0010 IUCN, The World Conservation Union e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1196 Gland, Switzerland www: http://iucn.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
