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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Des Dougan on March 16, 2002, 09:11:32 AM

Title: Webmail authentication problem
Post by: Des Dougan on March 16, 2002, 09:11:32 AM
I have a 5.1.2 server behind another 5.1.2 server and gateway. Web, including webmail, is served from the internal box via an Apache ProxyPass directive, and has been working well. The change in circumstances came with the upgrade of both boxes from 4.1.2 to 5.1.2. The initial problem I found was that local mail access was attempting to authenticate to the gateway box, rather than the server. While I don't recall if I had to do this with 4.1.2, I resolved the issue by pointing to the server in the gateway's "Hostnames and addresses" panel. However, after I did this, Webmail, which had been working, was failing with the MySQL pconnect error "Call to undefined function" normally associated with MySQL not being active. It had been working fine before I applied the change on the gateway box, and "ps aux" commands showed it still running on the server.

After checking and re-checking that ProxyPass was indeed active on the gateway, I decided to restart the server. This cleared the problem. Can anyone shed any light on why this error occurred? It seems very coincidental that Webmail would stop just after I made the mail routing change.

Thanks,

Des Dougan