Apache 2 and RedHat Professional Workstation

[Frappy John]

My RHES 4.0 has both Apache and Squirrelmail. Did you check up2date to
see if Squirrelmail isn't available through Red Hat?

On 7/26/05, Dave Ihnat <ignatz at dminet.com> wrote:
> Gentlefolk,
> 
> I don't often post asking for advice, but in this case, I'd love it if
> someone can give a 90-second answer that precludes hours of research.
> 
> I just installed RH Professional Workstation, and am trying to install
> the latest release of Squirrelmail.  By default, Apache 2 is installed and
> running from the RH RPMs; the copy of Squirrelmail is from their website
> (squirrelmail.org).  I will note that I've much experience building/
> installing/configuring Apache 1.3, but not 2.
> 
> Everything went well through running the Squirrelmail config.
> Squirrelmail itself was installed in the document root as sm
> (/var/www/html/sm). I did move the data directory to /var/squirrelmail,
> as well as creating the attachments directory there.  For both, I added
> permissions in the Apache config file of the form:
> 
>     <Directory "/var/squirrelmail/data">
>       Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
>       AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options
>       Allow from all
>       Order allow,deny
>     </Directory>
> 
> (Yes, it's too open; this is the result of trying to get it to work.
> I'll tighten it later.)  In all cases, everything is owner/group apache,
> with permissions set appropriately (I believe.)
> 
> I also added a GIF file to the directory /var/www/html/sm/images to replace
> the default squirrelmail image.
> 
> It *mostly* works--except (a) nothing I can do allows Squirrelmail to
> write to the data directory, and (b) the GIF file can't be read.
> 
> For the data directory, I've opened Linux filesystem permissions as
> far as 777 on the directory in testing (and on the parent directories),
> AND moved it back under the 'sm' directory to see if being outside the
> document root made a difference.  (Obviously, it didn't.)
> 
> For the image, I get the default "Forbidden" screen--plus "Additionally, a
> 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to
> handle the request."  This would have to be a default document configured
> by the RH Apache RPM, since I haven't modified anything in error handling.
> 
> The curious thing is, if I convert the image to a PNG file using a
> locally- compiled version of gif2png, it DOES display, so this isn't a
> filesystem permissions error.  (No, that's not the solution--I need to
> be able to display GIFs on demand, too.)  Doesn't the default RH Apache
> 2 config display GIFs by default?
> 
> Pointers on this would be greatly welcomed.  And if you want to throw in,
> "It's *this* obvious--you should have KNOWN that!" comments, they're in order,
> too.
> 
> TIA,
> --
>         Dave Ihnat
>         ignatz at dminet.com
> 
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