>> I ran squirrelmail/configtest.php and realized I don't have an >> attachment directory set up for Squirrelmail: >> >> ERROR: Attachment dir (/var/local/squirrelmail/attach/) does not exist! >> >> I don't even have a /var/local/. Would a good Gentoo'er create the >> directory in that location? > > > If a website needs to write files, let it do so under its own directory > hierarchy. All of our PHP sites have something equivalent to the following > in their apache vhost configs: > > php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/example.com/www/ > php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/www/example.com/www/tmp > php_admin_value session.save_path /var/www/example.com/www/tmp > > That way, if www.example.com is compromised, the rest of the machine is > still safe (barring PHP bugs).
There is a Squirrelmail document recommending that the Squirrelmail data and attachments directories are established outside of the web server's reach. /var is given as an example. They also recommend root:apache 0730 for both directories. This is a little disturbing because my Squirrelmail data directory was created under the webroot as apache:apache 0755 at some point. Would this have been done by Gentoo? Should I file a bug? "Prepare data and attachment directories" http://squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-3.html - Grant
