Re: Permission denied to SquirrelMail when using Alias

Paul Lesniewski wrote:

> No help on this?

On what?  You removed all the thread context - very unhelpful.

Your problem is not about SquirrelMail software as I recall, so maybe
you should ask somewhere more appropriate.

Sorry, I include the thread at the bottom.

As I configured Apache according to the squirrelmail documentation my guess was, that it is not a Apache problem but a problem within the squirrelmail configuration. I can configure other aliases and these work after I removed the trailing slashes from the Alias directive:

Alias /webmail/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/SquirrelMail/src/login.php"

When trying to alias to SquirrelMail (http://example.com/webmail/ - why do I have to use the trailing slashes here still?) I'm getting the login page without the images but I cannot log in. The browser shows the following:

"Not Found - The requested URL /webmail/redirect.php was not found on this server."

The apache error log shows the following:

"File does not exist: C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/images, referer: http://example.com/webmail/
script 'C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/SquirrelMail/src/login.phpredirect.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: http://example.com/webmail/"

I didn't manage to find out where this aliasing to login.phpredirect.php is coming from. I did a search on the content of all the files on the server and the expression "login.phpredirect.php" is mentioned nowhere. Any hints on this?

I don't think it makes sense to include the initial post here now as the situation has changed - but nevertheless:

> I can log in to SquirrelMail when using
> http://example.com/SquirrelMail/src/login.php
>
> I'm getting a "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /webmail/
> on this server." -message when using the Alias.
>
> This is what I configured in httpd.conf (according to
> http://www.squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-3.html):
>
> Alias /webmail/ "C:/Program Files/Apache
> Group/Apache2.2/htdocs/SquirrelMail/"
> <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache
> Group/Apache2.2/htdocs/SquirrelMail/">
>   Options Indexes
>   AllowOverride none
>   DirectoryIndex index.php
>   Order allow,deny
>   allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> I don't understand why this problem is occuring. I also tried using the
> Alias "C:/Program Files/Apache
> Group/Apache2.2/htdocs/SquirrelMail/src/login.php" but it didn't help.
> And as far as I understand documentation, it's shouldn't be necessary
> either.