actully it's a little different, i can't use c:/inetpub/sdata nor could i use c:\inetpub\sdata. Either way didn't make a different because of "../" It has to soley be "sdata/" and "sattach/" because SM considers it self the root. and the leading ../ tells it to move up one folder
On 8 Feb 2005 at 11:36, Jonathan Angliss wrote: > > > > > > 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. > [..] > > I use apache on a windows box and found I had problems if I mixed > > backslashes with forwardslashes so always use forwardslashes. > > That is what I told you to try... wasn't it? This is what I said: > > "Is your config/config.php set to c:\inetpub\sdata/ ? Have you tried > swapping the paths around in the file? IE: c:/inetpub/sdata/ ?" > > Notice I have the \ swapped to /. > > -- > Jonathan Angliss > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Keith Duzenski IT Manager (484)771-1000 ext. 111 Geewax, Terker & Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- 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
