Re: [SM-USERS] Problem upgrading SM

[Geoff S. <geo...@al...>]

Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm having problems in upgrading from 1.4.6 to 1.4.7. I've recently
>> moved to a new server and 1.4.6 was the version I installed originally.
>> The installation of SM is shared between a number of domains on the
>> webserver. I've used symbolic links to let the various domains point at
>> a constant path. In the view below the subdomain's root
>> (http://mail.alphaworks.co.uk/) points at
>> /var/www/vhosts/alphaworks.co.uk/squirrelmail/current/ :
>>
>>     [root@lvps212-241-195-198 squirrelmail]# ls -la
>>     total 13
>>     drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  1024 Aug  5 04:27 .
>>     drwxr-xr-x  22 root root  1024 May 26 12:28 ..
>>     drwxrwxrwx   2 root root  1024 May  2 19:57 attachments
>>     lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    19 Aug  4 23:18 current ->
>>     squirrelmail-1.4.6/
>>     drwxrwxrwx   2 root root  5120 Aug  4 14:19 data
>>     drwxr-xr-x  16 root root  1024 Aug  4 21:45 squirrelmail-1.4.6
>>     drwxr-xr-x  16 1000 users 1024 Aug  4 23:17 squirrelmail-1.4.7
>>     drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  1024 Aug  5 03:38 test
>>
>>
>>     
> Have you restarted apache after you added
> /var/www/vhosts/alphaworks.co.uk/squirrelmail/new settings?
>
> Have you checked if things start working when you change squirrelmail
> 1.4.7 directory owner? It is owned by uid 1000. If you have
> SymLinksIfOwnerMatch option in apache config, symlink by root to uid 1000
> owned directory should not work.
>
> Have you tried to use location without symbolic link?
>
>   
Thanks, it seems it was the ownership of squirrelmail-1.4.7 which seems 
to have been the problem. As soon as that was chowned to root:root it 
was fine, I can't believe I'd looked at it that many times and not 
noticed that!

Thanks again,
Geoff