On Tue, February 8, 2005 2:35 pm, Keith Duzenski said: > Well, i figured my problem out.  But i thought i'd let everyone > know just so if you run into it in the future.  > ok my problem (this is on a windows box) > > "Error opening ../data/default_pref > Could not create initial preference file! > .../c:\inetpub\sdata/ should be writable by user httpd > Please contact your system administrator and report this error" > This was because of the leading ../ that gets appended. and the trailing > \ that gets appended as well. > If you are trying to set up the path for your data and attachments you > can't have the full path.  it should look like this > $data_dir = SM_PATH . 'sdata/';  $attachment_dir = SM_PATH . > 'sattach/'; > Now the only problem with this, is that it specifally says in the > install instructions that the data folder is going to be containing > senstive data and should not be kept in the web accesibale SM > folder.  I'm just happy it works and hope this helps someone in > the future.
What happens if you change all document root path references in the ISS snap-in to be c:/inetpub/sdata instead of c:\inetpub\sdata. Windows probably wont complain. I use apache on a windows box and found I had problems if I mixed backslashes with forwardslashes so always use forwardslashes. Gabriel ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
