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tribby
09-04-2002, 02:36 PM
Recently a client installed SquirrelMail on their account. The install went fine, but whenever he tried to log in to SquirrelMail, he would be redirected to the Neomail login prompt :eek:

CPanel by default will redirect http://www.yourdomain.com/webmail/ to the Neomail login, so the first question I asked was if he was installing it in a folder called "webmail", which he wasn't. I realized that the problem was that SquirrelMail uses a file called "webmail.php" ... when I looked at the way the /webmail/ redirection is set up in httpd.conf, it turns out that it isn't just redirecting the /webmail/ directory, but infact redirects anything containging the word "webmail"... so by changing the httpd.conf line from:

ScriptAliasMatch /webmail /usr/local/cpanel/base/wredirect.cgi

to

ScriptAlias /webmail /usr/local/cpanel/base/wredirect.cgi

the problem gets fixed.

So next time a client has trouble running any script with the name "webmail" in it, that's why :stickout

(I would have posted this at the CPanel forum instead of here, but I can't remember my login info there and it won't send me my password :stickout)