added step for copying config_default.php to config.php

[squirrelmail.git] / INSTALL

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@@ -1,17 +1,25 @@
 Sorry for the incomplete documentation at this time.  Here is a quick
 overview of how to install SquirrelMail.
 
-1.  Make Apache (or whatever web server) happy with PHP4.
+1.  Configure PHP4 --with-gettext for internationalization.
 
-2.  Unarchive SquirrelMail in a subdirectory that is accessable by the
+2.  Make Apache (or whatever web server) happy with PHP4.
+
+3.  Unarchive SquirrelMail in a subdirectory that is accessable by the
     web server.  EX: /home/httpd/html/squirrelmail-0.1
 
-3.  Edit the config file, config/config.php
+4.  Copy the config file config/config_default.php to config/config.php.
+
+4.  Edit the config file, config/config.php for your network.
+
+6.  Change the permissons for the "data/" directory so it's writable to
+    the web server.  Under Red Hat Linux 6.0, this is done by:
+
+    chown -R nobody data
+    chgrp -R nobody data
 
-4.  Change permissions of the "data/" directory so that the web server
-    can write to it.  Here is an example from Red Hat 6.0:
-       cd <SQUIRREMAIL DIRECTORY>
-       chown nobody data
+    "nobody" is the user and group for the apache server for this
+    example.
 
-5.  Point your browser to the location you specified in step 2.
+7.  Point your browser to the location you specified in step 2.
     In this example, it's:  http://YOURHOST/squirrelmail-0.1/index.html