Webmail problem

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by wabz, Aug 25, 2009.

  1. wabz

    wabz New Member

    I am having the following problem with webmail

    Error opening ../data/default_pref
    Could not create initial preference file!
    /srv/webmail.uwasnet.org/web/data/ should be writable by user wwwrun
    Please contact your system administrator and report this error.

    File permission is set to 777

    When i run the command ls -la /srv/www/webmail.uwasnet.org/web/data

    output of the command. I just ran it for a different site with the same problem

    mail:/srv/www/webmail.uwasnet.org/web/data # ls -la /srv/www/webmail.uwasnet.org/web/data total 20
    drwxrwxrwx 2 web12 client5 4096 Aug 20 15:38 .
    drwxr-xr-x 18 web12 client5 4096 Aug 25 14:18 ..
    -rwxr-xr-- 1 web12 client5 14 Aug 20 15:38 .htaccess
    -rwxr-xr-- 1 web12 client5 41 Aug 20 15:38 default_pref
    -rwxr-xr-- 1 web12 client5 485 Aug 20 15:38 index.php

    So what next?
     
  2. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    Run:

    chown wwwrun /srv/webmail.uwasnet.org/web/data/
     
  3. wabz

    wabz New Member

    Still having the same problem

    Even after running the command chown wwwrun /srv/webmail.uwasnet.org/web/data/ I still have the same problem.
    There is a .htaccess file which has a deny all in it. Should i change the parameter to accept all?
     
    Last edited: Aug 26, 2009
  4. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    Looks as if you have a problem in your webmail config file somewhere. Compare that paths, you missded the www directory:

    The error message says:

    /srv/webmail.uwasnet.org/web/data/

    but the path is:

    /srv/www/webmail.uwasnet.org/web/data
     
  5. wabz

    wabz New Member

    The error message says

    Error opening ../data/default_pref
    Could not create initial preference file!
    /srv/www/webmail.uwasnet.org/data/ should be writable by user wwwrun
    Please contact your system administrator and report this error


    This is what is in the config file.

    $data_dir = '/srv/www/webmail.uwasnet.org/data/';

    /**
    * Attachments directory
    *
    * Path to directory used for storing attachments while a mail is
    * being sent. There are a few security considerations regarding
    * this directory:
    * + It should have the permission 733 (rwx-wx-wx) to make it
    * impossible for a random person with access to the webserver to
    * list files in this directory. Confidential data might be laying
    * around there.
    * + Since the webserver is not able to list the files in the content
    * is also impossible for the webserver to delete files lying around
    * there for too long.
    * + It should probably be another directory than data_dir.
    * @global string $attachment_dir
    */
    $attachment_dir = '/srv/www/webmail.uwasnet.org/attach/';
     

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