doc/README.russian_apache

   1 HOW TO CONFIGURE SQUIRREL-MAIL WITH RUSSIAN APACHE
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   3
   4 This text is available in Russian at
   5 http://www.mricon.com/SM/russian_apache.html
   6
   7 This howto is for people who are using Russian Apache and
   8 who use charsets other than koi8-r for their source documents.
   9 If you _do_ use KOI8-R as default encoding for all your source
  10 documents, you don't need to do anything. Otherwise, here's
  11 a very simple way to make this work.
  12
  13 The general idea is to tell Russian Apache that everything
  14 residing in the squirrel-mail directory is in koi8-r. This
  15 way all input submitted by users will be automagically
  16 converted by mod_charset from anything into koi8-r.
  17 Squirrel-Mail will then correctly stamp it with
  18 "Charset=koi8-r" and send off without any additional
  19 conversion.
  20
  21 There are two equally efficient ways to do it:
  22
  23
  24 1. THE HTTPD.CONF WAY.
  25 -----------------------
  26
  27 In your httpd.conf, add the following declaration for the
  28 server that handles the squirrel-mail:
  29
  30 <Directory /path/to/your/squirrel-mail>
  31 CharsetSourceEnc koi8-r
  32 </Directory>
  33
  34 Warning: If you use CharsetByExtension elsewhere, it will
  35 override the CharsetSourceEnc directive. In that case you will
  36 have to put this directive instead of the above:
  37
  38 <Directory /path/to/your/squirrel-mail>
  39 CharsetByExtension koi8-r .php
  40 </Directory>
  41
  42 It is advised to use the CharsetSourceEnc declaration instead
  43 of the other one. Use the CharsetByExtension only if the
  44 other fails.
  45
  46 2. THE .HTACCESS WAY (PREFERRED).
  47 ----------------------------------
  48
  49 Create a .htaccess file in your squirrel-mail directory. In it,
  50 simply put this line:
  51
  52 CharsetSourceEnc koi8-r
  53
  54 That's it. Note the warning about the ChatsetByExtension directive
  55 in the previous section. If you used CharsetByExtension declaration
  56 elsewhere and it's active for this server, then you will have to
  57 put this line in your .htaccess instead:
  58
  59 CharsetByExtension koi8-r .php
  60
  61 But again, this is only if the CharsetSourceEnc fails.
  62
  63 I mark this method "Preferred" simply because you don't have to
  64 restart your server if you use .htaccess. However, if you've
  65 specified "AllowOverride None" in your Server config, then you
  66 will have to go with "the httpd.conf way".
  67
  68
  69 If you have any questions or problems, please address them to
  70 the squirrelmail-list@lists.sourceforge.net to have them
  71 promptly answered. ;)
  72
  73 --
  74 Konstantin Riabitsev (a.k.a. Graf)
  75 graf@relhum.org