CGI SquirrelMail Readme


This is a script to convert SquirrelMail from regular PHP to PHP running
as CGI.


Normally, a webserver has one instance of PHP running.  This one
instance sits there, and when somebody visits a .php page, it takes in
that .php file, and spits out a webpage.

For various reasons, some people don't want to have their PHP scripts
executed in that manner.  These people have to run PHP as CGI.  To do
this, you add a shebang line to the beginning of your PHP scripts, and
tell your webserver to run PHP as CGI (via an AddHandler in the
.htaccess file).

This script does that, and a couple other things.  Namely, this script
will:

1. rename /index.php to /index.cgi, so that it is also executed as CGI.
2. add a PHP shebang line to all files in /src/, and to /index.cgi 
3. chmod all of the files in /src/, and /index.cgi to 0700, since 
   that's all that's needed for CGI that the owner is executing 
4. add an .htaccess in SM's /src/ directory, so that the files within 
   will be executed as CGI 


Explanations: 

Step 1 - we don't want a root-level .htaccess adding PHP as a CGI
   handler, since this would apply to all subdirectories, and we'd have 
   to go in and remove the includes as handlers.

Step 2 - the files in /src/ and /index.cgi are the page-serving scripts.



This was written by John Marriott <marriott@ackbar.org>.  Email with any
questions/suggestions.  This is free software, released under the BSD
license:

Copyright (c) 2004, John Marriott 
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