[SM-PLUGINS] RE: [SM-STABLE] Error opening ../../data/default_pref

[p d. t. <pdo...@an...>]

Using the information on

http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/DataPermission

(substituting "web" for "apache" -- note that "web" need not be BOTH
owner and group; in your case it might be useful to just give "web"
group ownership), you need to ask your hosting provider to set ownership
properly, otherwise you're out of luck.  Can you tell us what the
ownership and permissions of that directory and its contents are now?


> Basically for calendar, spell check and just about most of the other
> plugins. The ones that seem to work are the javascript clock, all the
> usual
> preferences for folders and display. Even the small calendar seems to
work.
> 
> The only thing that I can't change is the owner which I believe
requires
> the
> CHOWN command.I do not have access to the server to do this.
> 
> Joe
> 
> p dont think wrote:
> 
> > > I am running version 1.2x just fine. So, I wanted to upgrade to
stable
> > > 1.4.0 and am having a hard time. Thing is, I don't have shell
access
> > to
> > > run the config.pl, so I edit manually the config file and
eventually
> > get
> > > things working. Except this version I get the following errors
when
> > > installing plugins:
> > >
> > > Error opening ../../data/default_pref
> > > Could not create initial preference file!
> > > ../data/ should be writable by user web
> > > Please contact your system administrator and report this error.
> > >
> > > I've changed the permissions all sorts of ways, though I can't
CHOWN
> > > with my limited access to the web site. I can't help but feel that
the
> > > plugins look for a data directory in a different place then the
config
> > > states. I tried explicit path, and it too didn't work too well.
Any
> > > suggestions for how to resolve this?
> >
> > Plugins shouldn't be accessing your prefs any differently than the
core
> > code.
> > Please check this:
> >
> > http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/DataPermission
> >
> > If you still think it's a plugin, please disable them all then add
them
> > back one at a time so you can tell us which one it is.  When you do
so,
> > it'd be most useful if you could post to the SM-PLUGINS mailing
list.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >  paul