5. (CHARSETS) Russian Charsets
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1. CONFIGURE YOUR WEBSERVER TO WORK WITH PHP4
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to run as CGI under Apache. How you end up doing this is up to you
(your mileage may vary).
- NOTE: The new plugin architecture required the use of some functions
- which are not in all versions of PHP4. You will need at least
- PHP4 beta2. If you need to upgrade please go ahead and install the
- latest release version of PHP4.
+ You will need at least PHP v4.0.6. If you need to upgrade please go
+ ahead and install it now.
a. Obtaining and compiling PHP4
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+ SquirrelMail has not been extensively tested for use with PHP 4.3.x.
+ See the ReleaseNotes file.
- Point your favorite webserver at http://www.php.net/version4/ and
+ Point your favorite web browser at http://www.php.net/downloads.php/ and
download the source. Untar (tar xvfz filename-you-downloaded.tgz)
the source, cd into the directory and run configure. To make PHP4
work with SquirrelMail a commandline like this should do:
session's data with his own PHP script. Caution should be used when
setting up permissions and locations of php.ini and the session data.
+ FILE UPLOADS - Note that sending attachments will not work if your
+ "file_uploads" setting is "Off". Squirrelmail requires that setting
+ enabled in order to be able to attach files.
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c. Setting up .php files to use PHP4
You need to create a .htaccess file in you SquirrelMail directory
3. OBTAINING AND INSTALLING SQUIRRELMAIL
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- SquirrelMail is still under development. Therefore you should always
- get the newest version around. Look at
- http://www.squirrelmail.org/index.php3?page=5 to see what it
- is. If you want to be bleeding edge you might want to consider using
- the latest CVS version (with the latest and most fashionable of
- bugs).
+ SquirrelMail is constantly being improved. Therefore you should always
+ get the newest version around. Look at http://www.squirrelmail.org/
+ to see what it is. If you want to be bleeding edge you might want to
+ consider using the latest CVS version (with the latest and most
+ fashionable of bugs).
a. Download SquirrelMail
$ chgrp -R nobody data
Keep in mind that with different installations, the web server could
- typically run as userid/groupid of apache/apache or www-data/www-data.
- The best way to find out is to read the web server's configuration file.
+ typically run as userid/groupid of nobody/nobody, nobody/nogroup,
+ apache/apache or www-data/www-data. The best way to find out is to read
+ the web server's configuration file.
There also needs to be a directory where attachments are stored
before they are sent. Since personal mail is stored in this
possible example of this is:
http://www.yourdomain.com/squirrelmail
- It should be pretty stright forward to use. Some more documentation
+ It should be pretty straight forward to use. Some more documentation
might show up one day or another.