php problems with squirrelmail and apache2

[asimonelli]

I'm trying to set up a web-mail server and right now I'm just testing some things out. I have the following packages installed:
- php4
- apache2
- libapache2-mod-php4
- squirrelmail
... and all of the dependencies.
Apache2 is running with "Include /etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf" only in httpd.conf. Squirrelmail is configured using 'squirrelmail-configure' command but when I try to test it all using 'http://my-squirrelmail-location/squirrelmail/src/configtest.php', I get a 500 Internal Server Error from Apache2/PHP4. Looking at the error.log file I get the following message:

[Tue Aug 30 15:06:30 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: configtest.php
[Tue Aug 30 15:06:30 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Error in suphp.c on line 244: Script is not in document root
[Tue Aug 30 15:06:31 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/favicon.ico

What is causing this problem? I've heard that you can't get around this problem without compiling suphp from source and telling it --disable-checkpath at compile. Is there some other way?

[asimonelli]

Sorry, I'm just so inexperienced. I realized I needed to enable the PHP4 module using a2enmod php4 and other things.

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