| 1 | 1. CONFIGURE YOUR WEBSERVER TO WORK WITH PHP4 |
| 2 | --------------------------------------------- |
| 3 | |
| 4 | If your webserver does not already have PHP4 you must configure it |
| 5 | to work with PHP4. SquirrelMail uses the standard suffix .php for |
| 6 | all PHP4 files. This is a quick and dirty guide to installing PHP4 |
| 7 | to run as CGI under Apache. How you end up doing this is up to you |
| 8 | (your mileage may vary). |
| 9 | |
| 10 | a. Obtaining and compiling PHP4 |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Point your favorite webserver at http://www.php.net/version4/ and |
| 13 | download the source. Untar (tar xvfz filename-you-downloaded.tgz) |
| 14 | the source, cd into the directory and run configure. To make PHP4 |
| 15 | work with SquirrelMail a commandline like this should do: |
| 16 | |
| 17 | ./configure --enable-track-vars --enable-force-cgi-redirect --with-gettext |
| 18 | |
| 19 | If you have a database like MySQL you might want to add something |
| 20 | like --with-mysql to get database functionality. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | Run make to build the binary file. This will generate a binary file |
| 23 | called "php". Move this file into a CGI-directory. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | You might also want to read the INSTALL file in the PHP-distribution |
| 26 | :-) |
| 27 | |
| 28 | b. Setting up .php files to use PHP4 |
| 29 | |
| 30 | You need to create a .htaccess file in you SquirrelMail directory |
| 31 | that looks something like this: |
| 32 | |
| 33 | AddType application/php4script .php |
| 34 | Action application/php4script /cgi-bin/php |
| 35 | |
| 36 | You could also add these lines to your Apache configuration file. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | c. Running into trouble |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Setting up Apache with PHP4 can be a non-trivial task. Read the PHP4 |
| 41 | and Apache documentation carefully if you run into trouble. If you |
| 42 | have an experienced system administrator around ask her/him to help |
| 43 | you. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | 2. SETTING UP IMAP |
| 46 | ------------------ |
| 47 | |
| 48 | This is not covered here :-/ |
| 49 | |
| 50 | 3. OBTAINING AND INSTALLING SQUIRRELMAIL |
| 51 | ---------------------------------------- |
| 52 | |
| 53 | SquirrelMail is still under development. Therefore you should always |
| 54 | get the newest version around. Look at |
| 55 | http://squirrelmail.sourceforge.net/index.php3?page=5 to see what it |
| 56 | is. If you want to be bleeding edge you might want to consider using |
| 57 | the latest CVS version (with the latest and most fashionable of |
| 58 | bugs). |
| 59 | |
| 60 | a. Download SquirrelMail |
| 61 | |
| 62 | Get SquirrelMail from the address above if you do not have it or are |
| 63 | uncertain if you have the newest version. Untar (again tar xvfz |
| 64 | filename.tgz) SquirrelMail in a directory that is readable for your |
| 65 | webserver. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | b. Setting up directories |
| 68 | |
| 69 | SquirrelMail uses two directories to store user configuration and |
| 70 | attachments that are about to be sent. You might want to have these |
| 71 | directories outside of your web tree. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | The data directory is used for storing user preferences, like |
| 74 | signature, name and theme. When unpacking the sources this directory |
| 75 | is created as data/ in you SquirrelMail directory. This directory |
| 76 | must be writable by the webserver. If your webserver is running as |
| 77 | the user nobody you can fix this by running: |
| 78 | |
| 79 | chown -R nobody data |
| 80 | chgrp -R nobody data |
| 81 | |
| 82 | There also needs to be a directory where attachments are stored |
| 83 | before they are sent. Since personal mail is stored in this |
| 84 | directory you might want to be a bit careful about how you set it |
| 85 | up. It should be owned by another user than the webserver is running |
| 86 | as (root might be a good choice) and the webserver should have write |
| 87 | and execute permissions on the directory, but should not have read |
| 88 | permissions. You could do this by running these commands (still |
| 89 | granted that the webserver is running as nobody/nobody) |
| 90 | |
| 91 | cd /var/some/place |
| 92 | mkdir SomeDirectory |
| 93 | chgrp -R nobody SomeDirectory |
| 94 | chmod 730 SomeDirectory |
| 95 | |
| 96 | If you trust all the users on you system not to read mail they are |
| 97 | not supposed to read change the last line to chmod 777 SomeDirectory |
| 98 | or simply use /tmp as you attachments directory. If a user is |
| 99 | aborting a mail but has uploaded som attachments to it the files |
| 100 | will be lying around in this directory forever if you do not remove |
| 101 | them. |
| 102 | |
| 103 | c. Setting up SquirrelMail |
| 104 | |
| 105 | All configuration directives you need to worry about in SquirrelMail |
| 106 | is in the file config/config.php in you SquirrelMail directory. This |
| 107 | file is pretty well commented. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | 4. RUNNING SQUIRRELMAIL |
| 110 | ----------------------- |
| 111 | |
| 112 | Point your browser at the URL at which SquirrelMail is installed. It |
| 113 | should be pretty stright forward to use. Some more documentation |
| 114 | might show up onbe day or another. |