On my Debian system with ISPConfig installed, i have installed Squirrelmail. I have created a website webmail.mywebhostcompany.tld and Squirrelmail is installed in this website. In my browser: when i point to URL http://webmail.mywebhostcompany.tld, i see Squirrelmail's login screen. When i try to login for the first time with a username and password, an error occurs: Error opening ../data/default_pref Could not create initial preference file! ../data/ should be writable by user www-data Please contact your system administrator and report this error. How can i solve this? Hans
I do not understand, but when i do an ls -la /path/to/data The system replies: No such file or directory To install Squirrelmail i did the following: -I extracted Squirrelmail 1.4.6 in website http://webmail.myhostcompany.tld/ -I did not change essential things using the Perl command conf.pl -I only checked if Courier was selected for IMAP. Are there more steps to take to get Squirrelmail working? Hans
Falko, I have changed that to /var/www/webmail.myhostcompany.tld/web/data which is Squirrelmail's data directory. I have tried to log in again at http://webmail.myhostcompany.tld Now the error occurs: Error opening /var/www/webmail.myhostcompany.tld/web/data/default_pref Could not create initial preference file! /var/www/webmail.myhostcompany.tld/web/data/ should be writable by user www-data Please contact your system administrator and report this error. Has this something to do with read/write access? And if so, how do i change this? Or is there something else wrong? I suppose that i am almost there ... Hans
Problem solved Hey there! I want everyone to know that i do not need help about this thread anymore. I discovered that PHP-safemode was ON... After turning this OFF, i could log in. Hans