From: Jason W. <squ...@gr...> - 2002-03-18 18:54:50
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On Tuesday 19 March 2002 02:21, M Wild wrote: > Greetings - I am attempting to install SquirrelMail v 1.2.5 to replace v > 1.0.6 running on another server. I have installed the program per the > directions however I cannot login to my test mailbox. SquirrelMail returns > the following error message: > > Error opening ../data/default_pref > Could not create initial preference file! > Please contact your system administrator and report this error. > > Permissions on the file show the web server *SHOULD* be able to read (and > out of desperation I changed it to allow write by the web server) the > default_pref file and create new files in the ../data directory. I checked You need execute permissions on all directories up to and including ..../data And if the default_pref is not already present then you also need write permissions on the directory "data". If the default_pref file is already present then you need write permissions on that file. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk /* Law of Continuity: Experiments should be reproducible. They should all fail the same way. */ |