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Does ln -s work with GM?

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Does ln -s work with GM?
Hi,

Say GM services are to be provided on a domain not owned by GM license owner. The domain owner may not want the usual path to be displayed and would like the path of his/ her domain displayed in browser. So would soft link creation work? Or it is not possible?

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Re: [anup123] Does ln -s work with GM? In reply to
It depends on permissions and how you have Apache set up. If you have a cgi wrapper running (suEXEC), no. The other domain will not be able to exec the cgis. If not, give it a try and see, it should work. Other than that, I'm not sure how you can do it.

~Charlie
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Re: [Chaz] Does ln -s work with GM? In reply to
Hi,

Tried the stuff on test install and when i run the login.cgi i get 403 error.

You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/...../login.cgi on this server

So it seems that it would not be possible. I do not have suEXEC enabled though.

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Re: [anup123] Does ln -s work with GM? In reply to
Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you're trying to ask here.

Adrian
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Re: [brewt] Does ln -s work with GM? In reply to
Hi Adrian,

Actually the question stated explicitly is:

With ln -s is it possible for what the user sees in addressbar of browser, is it possible to have say:

http://custom_domain/...path_to_ln_of_gm_cgi

instead of

http://default_install_domain/cgi-bin/path_to_gm

Which means that if a third party domain owner wants the installation path (without resorting to IP based access of GM paths) to be hidden from the enduser and would want to show off as if the webmail was operating on his/ her domain.

Off course the custom_domain is setup in GM for handling the mails.

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Re: [anup123] Does ln -s work with GM? In reply to
This is really Apache configuration issues, not Gossamer Mail. Have a look in your Apache error logs to see why Apache is not executing the file.

Cheers,

Alex
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Re: [Alex] Does ln -s work with GM? In reply to
Hi Alex,

Would setting

Options FollowSymLinks

in the cgi-bin of the domain where ln -s is created be OK to get it running?

Would it be safe from security angle because by default the cgi-bin has

Options None

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