X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?p=squirrelmail.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=d5c6d86dc89432d57caac88965e31977f87c189a;hp=2116f8b6e65ab577580aff5531b8f9c0b73abee5;hb=af861a3477467e5e1fd9f5de3f641d41b9aa4280;hpb=3a904e340e7a712c54b165df59105eef6454472a diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 2116f8b6..d5c6d86d 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ Table of Contents: 5. (CHARSETS) Russian Charsets - - 1. CONFIGURE YOUR WEBSERVER TO WORK WITH PHP4 --------------------------------------------- @@ -20,14 +18,15 @@ Table of Contents: 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 + + 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: @@ -58,8 +57,6 @@ b. Changing php.ini be sure to change the session.save_path to someplace that can only be read and written to by the webserver. session.save_path is the location that PHP's session data will be written to. - - Squirrelmail 1.2.x also requires register_globals to be enabled. SECURITY WARNING - If a user has access to write PHP scripts on your system and knows the location where PHP stores session data, he @@ -67,6 +64,10 @@ b. Changing php.ini 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. + c. Setting up .php files to use PHP4 You need to create a .htaccess file in you SquirrelMail directory @@ -92,12 +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