I'm attempting to upgrade from SquirrelMail 1.0.6 to 1.4.0. I'm getting the following error:
Error opening ../data//default_pref Could not create initial preference file! ../data/ should be writable by user apache Please contact your system administrator and report this error. First off, the user "apache" doesn't even exist on my server. My old version of SquirrelMail was installed by the host, so I'm not completely sure it was set up. However, in looking around at the files, the data folder for the upgraded version is set up with the same owner as the older version. Is there a setting that I'm missing somewhere so I can tell it to use a user other than apache? I tried creating a user named "apache" and setting it as the owner of the folder, but it had an error, saying "chown: changing ownership of `data': Operation not permitted" Also, are there supposed to be two slashes between data and default_pref, or doesn't that make a difference? I tried using conf.pl to switch the data directory to ../data without the trailing slash, but it automatically added one. Thanks in advance for any help, I messed around with this all last night while looking through the documentation and support on the SquirrelMail website, and wasn't able to figure anything out. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
