Hello,
I'm new to this list.
We are having some trouble with a second installation of Squirrelmail and would like some pointers on how
to get it working.
We have been using Squirrelmail for a couple of years. We installed it on our main web server - an Intel box running Redhat Linux 7.1. It has become a very popular service, and many people in our departments have come to depend on
it.
We plan to replace the old web server with a newer system which will run Redhat Enterprise AS 3.0. Prior to making that change, we are testing some of our changes on a system running Fedora Core 2 ( we'll repeat the tests on the new host under RHEL-AS-3). The two systems are compared below:
OS Fedora Core 2 Redhat Linux 7.1
Kernel 2.6.8-1.521 2.4.20-28.7
PHP 4.3.8-2.1 4.1.2-7.1.6
PHP-MYSQL 4.3.8-2.1 4.1.2-7.1.6
PHP-PEAR 4.3.8-2.1 none
PHP-MBSTRING 4.3.8-2.1 none
PHP-LDAP 4.3.8-2.1 4.1.2-7.1.6
PHP-IMAP none 4.1.2-7.1.6
LIBGHTTP_DEVEL none 1.0.8-2
LIBGHTTP 1.0.9-9.1.1 1.0.8-2
HTTPD (Apache) 2.0.51-2.7 1.3.27-3.7.1
SQUIRRELMAIL 1.2.6-1 1.2.6-1
DocumentRoot /var/www/html /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/{dept}All packages were installed via rpm.
The imap server is running on a different host, and shows
PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 IDLE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] IMAP4rev1 2001.315 at Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:59:01 -0500 (EST)
which should be the University of Washington imapd that comes with Pine.
We tested using IE 6 SP1, Firefox 0.9.2 and Mozilla 1.8a1 Cookies are on, and these same browsers on the same host work with the Linux 7.1 and Sm 1.2.6-1 installation, and use the same iimap server host.
Directory permissions, etc...
Object Owner Group Mode /var/lib/squirrelmail root root drwxr-xr-x /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs nbapach nbapach drwx------ /var/spool/squirrelmail root root drwxr-xr-x /var/spool/squirrelmail/attach nbapach apache drwx------
I know the docs recommend mode 0730 for the attachment directory, but setting the attachment directory to that value did not affect our results, nor did changing the group to nbapach. I made sure the Fedora 2 host had directories set up identically as they were on the Redhat 7.1 host that successfully runs Squirrelmail.
Both hosts are in the same subdomain (different subnets), and are in the same NIS domain. On both hosts, httpd runs under the unprivileged account 'nbapach' (and under group 'nbapach').
We initially tried the squirrelmail that comes with Fedora Core 2 (1.4.2-3); on the test host. After editing the config.php file using conf.pl, pointing our browser at the correct URL resulted in the correct file (login.php) being accessed, but only a blank page was displayed. We would see
<html><body></body></html>
if we viewed the page source in the browser. I've looked for this problem on squirrelmail.org, but found nothing that seemed to deal with this problem. I'm just starting to learn php, and am not up to debugging this problem yet.
The apache logs indicated that /var/lib/php/session (defined in php.ini as session.save_path) had incorrect permissions. Correcting that did not alleviate the problem with 1.4.2-3. When trying 1.2.6-1, no errors are logged. The session.save_path for the 7.1 host is set to /tmp.
I looked at the Redhat Enterprise AS 3 distribution, and noticed it uses squirrelmail-1.2.11-1; since 1.2.6-1 works so well (and only took about 10 minutes to get working originally under 7.1), I un-installed 1.4.2-3 and installed 1.2.6-1 on the Fedora 2 host, and copied the config.php from the working installation. This time, the initial squirrelmail login page would appear, but whenever I login, I get
ERROR
You must be logged in to access this page.
Go to the login pageand would be in a redirect page.
The exact same setup works under 7.1 and apache 1.3.27. I've followed recommendations found in the squirrelmail archives (check/fix session_save.path, cookies on, etc.) but had no success.
After turning on php debugging in php.ini and trying to use squirrelmail, I could see the error messages
Warning: logout_error(/squirrelmail/functions/page_header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/copahee/www/html/squirrelmail/functions/display_messages.php on line 99
Warning: logout_error(): Failed opening '/squirrelmail/functions/page_header.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/copahee/www/html/squirrelmail/functions/display_messages.php on line 99
That line (99) is: include_once($DOCUMENT_ROOT . $base_uri . 'functions/page_header.php' );
However, correcting that with brute force (i.e., not trying to fix the php code, but simply creating a (temporary) symlink so that /squirrelmail -> /var/www/html/squirrelmail), the php error messages disappear, but the "You must be logged in" message from squirrelmail still appears.
It does appear that display_messages.php may not have a valid $DOCUMENT_ROOT and that $base_uri is set (probably) to '/squirrelmail/'
I'd like to have Squirrelmail tested and functional prior to cutting over to the new server.
We're replacing the system hardware because it is old and failing. I do not wish to install 7.1 on the replacement system - we've been upgrading all our Linux hosts to Fedora 2 (and now 3) and RHEL AS/WS 3.
While I could rename the current server and continue to run it to provide squirrelmail access only, I'd rather retire it; it is old and prone to hardware failures, and I really want to have no older, unsupported OSs running.
While I'd like to run the latest version, it might be better to use the version that comes with RHEL AS-3 (1.2.11-1). Right now, neither 1.2.6-1 nor 1.4.2-3 work, but fail in different ways.
Any pointers, suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
John Simonson - Manager, College Computing and Networking
Phone: (585) 275-3106
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.seas.rochester.edu/~gort
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