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JWU42
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 Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 5:46 pm Post subject: Squirrelmail installs to /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/ ?!? |
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Any idea what is wrong here 
I just upgraded to Apache 1.3.29 which meant the change from /home/httpd/htdocs to /var/www/localhost/htdocs. I was able to get gallery installed OK by editing the .ebuild. I unmerged squirrelmail and emerged it and it installs to /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/squirrelmail. I tried to edit the DocumentRoot part of the squirrelmail ebuild and then the install borks totally.
I am in need of some help - or perhaps I found a bug.
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Chris W
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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That's where the ebuild is meant to install. I don't think it follows GLEP 11 particularly well, but it works in that location on the default site.
What problem are you having with squirrelmail?
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JWU42
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 12:00 am Post subject: |
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Chris,
I would have thought it would install to /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail and not under cgi-bin. I used to access by domainname.com/squirrelmail but can't any longer since there is no squirrelmail subdir to Document Root (/var/www/localhost/htdocs)
I am hoping that made sense... |
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Chris W
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:55 am Post subject: |
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My humble apologies, you are correct.
The ebuild I read, and the install I have done, went into /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail. This is a subdirectory under: | Code: | | HTTPD_ROOT="/var/www/localhost/htdocs/" |
as hard coded in the current webapp-apache eclass.
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JWU42
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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I see you have HTTPD_ROOT and not the usual apache DocumentRoot in apache.conf as it is below...
| Code: | | DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/htdocs |
The squirrelmail ebuild has the following
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src_install() {
local DocumentRoot=${HTTPD_ROOT}
local destdir=${DocumentRoot}/${PN}
dodir ${destdir}
cp -r . ${D}/${HTTPD_ROOT}/${PN}
cd ${D}/${HTTPD_ROOT}
chown -R ${HTTPD_USER}.${HTTPD_GROUP} ${PN}/data
# Fix permissions
find ${D}${destdir} -type d | xargs chmod 755
find ${D}${destdir} -type f | xargs chmod 644
}
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I see it points to HTTPD_ROOT and also references DocumentRoot (I am no coder - that is for certain).
EDIT: Found the /usr/portage/eclass/webapp-apache.eclass you mention and mine points to the proper location, but does have the cgi-bin as HTTPD_ROOT for cgi-apps:
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function webapp-determine-htdocsdir ()
{
webapp-determine-installowner
# HTTPD_ROOT="`grep '^DocumentRoot' ${APACHECONF} | cut -d ' ' -f 2`"
# [ -z "${HTTPD_ROOT}" ] && HTTPD_ROOT="/home/httpd/htdocs/"
# temporary fix for webapps
HTTPD_ROOT="/var/www/localhost/htdocs/"
keepdir "$HTTPD_ROOT"
fowners "$HTTPD_USER"."$HTTPD_GROUP" "$HTTPD_ROOT"
fperms 755 "$HTTPD_ROOT"
}
function webapp-determine-cgibindir ()
{
#HTTPD_CGIBIN="`grep 'ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/' ${APACHECONF_COMMON} | cut -d ' ' -f 7`"
#[ -z "${HTTPD_CGIBIN}" ] && HTTPD_CGIBIN="/home/httpd/cgi-bin/"
# temporary fix for webapps
HTTPD_ROOT="/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/"
}
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Dr_Stein
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:10 pm Post subject: Ugh. |
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This change to /var/www/whatever has caused a big old mess for me as well.
Squirrelmail emerged itself into /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin as noted above, and unmerged the old version that I had at /home/httpd/htdocs - I wasn't quire expecting that as I have now lost all custom logos & settings. Sure, I should have backed it up first but a little warning would have been nice. =/
I am now getting 403 errors everywhere. |
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fleed
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it was quite braindead to change locations like that. /var/www might be infinitely better than /home/httpd but such a change is not done lightly. I think if an update is being performed as opposed to a new install then the location should not be changed, specially since it's not under /etc and therefore not protected. This sounds more like something Micro$oft would do... oh well, I'm holding off on updating until I have the guts to do it! |
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Dr_Stein
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 12:20 am Post subject: yup |
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I really wish that they had made it a *choice* - like if a "vhost USE flag" was there, THEN put stuff in /var/www/localhost. I *like* stuff in /home for a few reasons. This change has made a huge mess of things. >
Oh well.. things will be slow around this holiday weekend. I can patch things up.  |
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JWU42
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 3:08 am Post subject: |
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Well - misery loves company as they say...
I am glad to hear it isn't just me. Now to figure why some people have been able to install properly under htdocs instead of cgi-bin (this all under/var/www/localhost)
Are we all using squirrelmail-1.4.2-r1 ??? |
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Dr_Stein
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:40 am Post subject: Miserable? |
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Yup, we are. I managed to fix mine after a lot of directory movin' & doc readin' and 5 cans of Vanilla Coke.
Oh, if you use the SSL plugin for Squirrelmail, your SSL setup gets hosed by this change as it leaves the ssl.default-vhost.conf set to the (now) OLD $HTTPD_ROOT 
Overall it didn't take me that long to get everything back up and running but it was ever so slightly irritating. I don't use any "web apps" on this particular server, unless Squirrelmail is now considered a "web app." |
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tecknojunky
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| Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| fleed wrote: | | I think it was quite braindead to change locations like that. |
Agreed.
How about giving the users the choice to where the document root should be. That would solve any issues with any web server related ebuilds.
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reinier
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:41 am Post subject: |
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I have installed Apache/1.3.29 with PHP/4.3.4 and although my emerge (squirrelmail-1.4.2-r1) did install to /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail I have another problem. My webserver directory is /home/user/www/ but when I link to http://localhost/squirrelmail/ I get an HTTP404. I don't understand how http://localhost/squirrelmail/ could actually work (no symbolic links as far as I can tell) and I'm wondering how Dr_Stein moved his directories to get everything to work..? I'm not using SSL (yet), any help would be greatly appreciated ... I just want to get it working!
btw, in an insane attempt I made a new directory named 'www' in /var/www/localhost/ and copied everything from 'htdocs' to the new directory... but to no avail |
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Oopsz
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reinier
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| Oopsz, your solution sounds interesting... How would I go about symlinking? I've done some fooling around with 'ln' but I'm not quite sure how to link directories and I don't understand the Squirrelmail setup well enough to know what to link. Could you please give some syntax? As I mentioned before, my webserver directory is /home/user/www/ and technically I want to get http://localhost/squirrelmail/ to work... Thanks in advance |
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D-brane
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| reinier wrote: | | Could you please give some syntax? As I mentioned before, my webserver directory is /home/user/www/ and technically I want to get http://localhost/squirrelmail/ to work... Thanks in advance |
| Code: | | ln -s /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/ /home/user/www/squirrelmail |
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bcressey
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| reinier wrote: | | Oopsz, your solution sounds interesting... How would I go about symlinking? |
If you want the old behavior of /home/httpd instead of /var/www, simply do:
ln -s /home/httpd /var/www
and you're basically set. I did this for a long time the other way around, to get everything under /var/www before this change was made. |
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reinier
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks, I had tried linking directories "ln -d" which didn't work. Also, I made an attempt at changing the ebuild unmerging and re-emerging squirrelmail. That didn't work either but when I used the symbolic link parameter everything fell into place |
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