X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=71e4001410018b625c042e78c13e223d5d957edc;hb=42c2281a0d039f996428a9e179c8c19efea59365;hp=ad5b46aa782cb6b8b8fababd72c652bb31ea2653;hpb=8905fa13a35aa027aa05e4c82321a676f94d42e0;p=squirrelmail.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index ad5b46aa..71e40014 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ Table of Contents: 5. (CHARSETS) Russian Charsets - - 1. CONFIGURE YOUR WEBSERVER TO WORK WITH PHP4 --------------------------------------------- @@ -25,11 +23,10 @@ Table of Contents: a. Obtaining and compiling PHP4 - SquirrelMail has not been tested for use with PHP 4.3.x. The - development team does not recommend the use of this software with - PHP 4.3.x until further testing can be done. + 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: @@ -96,12 +93,11 @@ d. Running into trouble 3. OBTAINING AND INSTALLING SQUIRRELMAIL ---------------------------------------- - 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 @@ -175,7 +171,7 @@ b. Setting up directories c. Setting up SquirrelMail - There are two ways to configure Squirrelmail. In the config/ directory, + There are two ways to configure SquirrelMail. In the config/ directory, there is a perl script called conf.pl that will aid you in the configuration process. This is the recommended way of handling the config. @@ -183,6 +179,12 @@ c. Setting up SquirrelMail You can also copy the config/config_default.php file to config/config.php and edit that manually. + After you've created a configuration, you can use your webbrowser to + browse to http://your-squirrelmail-location/config/configtest.php. + This will perform some basic checks on your config to make sure + everything works like it should. + + 4. RUNNING SQUIRRELMAIL -----------------------