Newb: Roundcube installation gone slightly awry...

[Slowhand]

Hi,

Still battling on... (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS)

I have roundcube installed in /usr/share/webmail (Mostlly seems Ok. See below)

I have Croydon's plugin enabled in ISPc3 to create a webmail folder in each site created by ISPc3.

My server is sierra.myserver.com.
If I go to myserver.com/webmail I see roundcube

I created site www.123.co.uk
When I go to www.123.co.uk/webmail I get a
ERROR 500 - Internal Server Error!

I then did the following:

slowhand@sierra:/var/www/www.123.co.uk/web$ ll
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 web1 client1 4096 2009-06-09 10:48 error
-rwxr-xr-- 1 web1 client1 1406 2009-06-09 10:48 favicon.ico
-rwxr-xr-- 1 web1 client1 1861 2009-06-09 10:48 index.html
-rwxr-xr-- 1 web1 client1   34 2009-06-09 10:48 robots.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 web1 client1 4096 2009-06-10 00:30 stats
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 2009-06-09 12:12 webmail -> /var/www/webmail
slowhand@sierra:/var/www/www.123.co.uk/web$ cd /var/www
slowhand@sierra:/var/www$ ll
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-03-10 18:14 apache2-default
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-06-09 10:48 clients
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   45 2009-06-04 16:49 index.html
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   34 2009-06-04 18:28 ispconfig -> /usr/local/ispconfig/interface/web
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-06-04 18:28 php-fcgi-scripts
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-09 13:18 special folder
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-07 06:48 webalizer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   19 2009-06-09 16:29 webmail -> /usr/share/webmail/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   30 2009-06-09 11:19 www.123.co.uk -> /var/www/clients/client1/web1/
slowhand@sierra:/var/www$

To my newb eyes it looks as if there is a symlink from
/usr/share/webmail/

to
/var/www/webmail

which in turn goes to
/var/www/www.123.co.uk/web/webmail

I thought it was the trailing '/' in the first line </usr/share/webmail/> which was the problem so I did

slowhand@sierra:/var/www$ sudo rm webmail
slowhand@sierra:/var/www$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/webmail /var/www/webmail
slowhand@sierra:/var/www$ ll
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-03-10 18:14 apache2-default
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-06-09 10:48 clients
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   45 2009-06-04 16:49 index.html
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   34 2009-06-04 18:28 ispconfig -> /usr/local/ispconfig/interface/web
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-06-04 18:28 php-fcgi-scripts
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-09 13:18 special folder
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-07 06:48 webalizer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   18 2009-06-11 16:54 webmail -> /usr/share/webmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   30 2009-06-09 11:19 www.123.co.uk -> /var/www/clients/client1/web1/

and rebooted the box.

I still get the same error as before.

How badly did I screw it up?

Probably shouldn't wrap two issues in one thread but it might be relevant...

I have just been battling with the RC installer on a machine which isn't yet facing the internet and has no DNS pointing at it.

I completed the install but couldn't complete the final tests due to the reasons above.

Now I find that RC is installed in /usr/share/webmail/roundcubemail-0.2.2
Not /usr/share/webmail/ where I wanted it to be.

If I go to mydomain/webmail/roundcubemail-0.2.2/ I can log in fine (although there is only one folder, 'Inbox'...)

Did this happen because I didn't complete the installer properly?

I googled for a solution and settled on:

sudo su
cd to /usr/share/webmail/roundcubemail-0.2.2
then did
tar cf - . |(cd //usr/share/webmail; tar xvf -)
Quick prayer before hitting return...

Seems to have worked.

Can anyone comment on whether I have done the right thing?
Is my install Ok?
Why did this happen?
Shouldn't I see sent/junk/drafts folders? I'm not, only Inbox.

Slowhand

[till]

If you get an error when you access a website, then look into the error log of the website and post the exact error message.

[Slowhand]

Originally Posted by till

If you get an error when you access a website, then look into the error log of the website and post the exact error message.

Till,

(Thanks as always...)

From /var/www/clients/client1/web1/log/error.log

[Thu Jun 11 16:17:15 2009] [alert] [client 192.168.0.6] /var/www/www.123.co.uk/web/webmail/.htaccess: php_flag not allowed here
[Thu Jun 11 16:23:31 2009] [alert] [client 192.168.0.6] /var/www/www.123.co.uk/web/webmail/.htaccess: php_flag not allowed here
[Thu Jun 11 16:24:08 2009] [alert] [client 192.168.0.6] /var/www/www.123.co.uk/web/webmail/.htaccess: php_flag not allowed here
[Thu Jun 11 16:26:53 2009] [alert] [client 192.168.0.6] /var/www/www.123.co.uk/web/webmail/.htaccess: php_flag not allowed here
[Thu Jun 11 16:55:04 2009] [alert] [client 192.168.0.6] /var/www/www.123.co.uk/web/webmail/.htaccess: php_flag not allowed here
[Thu Jun 11 16:55:11 2009] [alert] [client 192.168.0.6] /var/www/www.123.co.uk/web/webmail/.htaccess: php_flag not allowed here
[Thu Jun 11 17:00:37 2009] [alert] [client 192.168.0.6] /var/www/www.123.co.uk/web/webmail/.htaccess: php_flag not allowed here
[Thu Jun 11 17:00:41 2009] [alert] [client 192.168.0.6] /var/www/www.123.co.uk/web/webmail/.htaccess: php_flag not allowed here

Nothing more

?

S

[till]

Remove all php_flag lines from the .htaccess file as they are not allowed in .htaccess files in a hosting setup. Move them to the apache directives field instead if you use mod_php, otherwise remove them completely.

[Slowhand]

Originally Posted by till

Remove all php_flag lines from the .htaccess file as they are not allowed in .htaccess files in a hosting setup. Move them to the apache directives field instead if you use mod_php, otherwise remove them completely.

Till,

The /var/www/www.123.co.uk/webmail/.htaccess now looks like this

# AddDefaultCharset     UTF-8
AddType text/x-component .htc

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_value       error_log       logs/errors

php_value       upload_max_filesize     5M
php_value       post_max_size   6M
php_value       memory_limit    64M

php_value       zlib.output_compression 0
php_value       magic_quotes_gpc        0
php_value       zend.ze1_compatibility_mode     0

php_value       session.auto_start      0
php_value       session.gc_maxlifetime  21600
php_value       session.gc_divisor      500
php_value       session.gc_probability  1

# http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30766
php_value       mbstring.func_overload  0
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^favicon.ico$ skins/default/images/favicon.ico
</IfModule>

Order deny,allow
Allow from all

There were 2 lines of php_flag directives in there.

I didn't add them. Is something wrongly configured somewhere?

I still got the Same 5oo error in my browser..

The log file said to remove any php_value flags.

The .htaccess now looks like

# AddDefaultCharset     UTF-8
AddType text/x-component .htc

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
# http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30766
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^favicon.ico$ skins/default/images/favicon.ico
</IfModule>

Order deny,allow
Allow from all

And I see Roundcube in the right place!

How did that .htaccess file come to look the way it did?

S

[till]

How did that .htaccess file come to look the way it did?

it is part of roundcube, but this does not nescessarily mean that it suits for a hosting setup were the priveliges of a site has to be limited.

[Slowhand]

Originally Posted by till

it is part of roundcube, but this does not nescessarily mean that it suits for a hosting setup were the priveliges of a site has to be limited.

Till,

Is there anything I can do to correct this 'globally' or will I have to correct it manually each time I create a site?

S