Hi
I'm trying to install squerrilmail on my plesk 2.5 server but I need a bit of help.
When I enter a correct username and password it says :

"ERROR
Error opening ../data/default_pref
Could not create initial preference file!
../data/ should be writable by user apache
Please contact your system administrator and report this error. "

But I have done this :

chown -R nobody data
chgrp -R nobody data

Should I change "nobody" for something else what user does the user apach run as? Maybe it should be just my sites normal ftp username ??

Please help
When I have got a working version I will post a detailed how to for those who have had enough of the imp that comes with plesk !

Richard

Make sure permissions are set to write for the owner
chmod -R 755 dir
where dir is the directory name

Also make sure that apache is running as nobody and not something else, e.g. httpd.
ps -aux
look for the httpd procs. and get the user name or check the apache config files.

thanks it works now, (I had to set the owner to the site owner and not nobody) but now I want to try and set it up so that the whole server can use it. If I create an alias /squirrelmail in the httpdocs, is there a variable or some way to replace "mydomain.com" by the correct domain? ie: change $domain='domain.com' in the script to $domain=$sitedomain ... ??

I have the following script in /etc/cron.hourly and this works a treat, sitewide and it means that if if I fiddle around as root it solves any permission problems for me.


Obviously if you have more than 40 sites, change the number.
With all best regards,

Alex Davies
alex@davz.net