[CiderWebmail] How to configure session store (or ciderwebmail in general)

[Stefan Seifert]

Hi Nikolaus,

On Sunday 01 September 2013 23:28:30 Nikolaus Rath wrote:

> I'm trying to set up my first ciderwebmail installation. With some
> educated guesses, I've got the ciderwebmail_fastcgi.pl script to run
> under fastcgi.

Can you tell us what things you had to guess? I'd love to put some docs 
together to make it easier for people to install. Also please don't hesitate 
to ask on this list if you come upon any other questions.

> However, as soon as I try to access the configured URL, I'm getting the
> following error:
> 
> [Mon Sep 02 06:17:02 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)
> mod_auth_tkt/2.1.0 mod_fcgid/2.3.6 mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/1.0.1e
> mod_wsgi/3.3 Python/2.7.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
> Open of share file /tmp/ciderwebmail/session_data failed: Permission
> denied at /usr/lib/perl5/Cache/FastMmap.pm line 640.

Try creating the /tmp/ciderwebmail directory and change the owner to the user 
you're using for running CiderWebmail. E.g.:
mkdir /tmp/ciderwebmail
chown -R wwwrun /tmp/ciderwebmail

You may want to add it to your startup script.

This is not exactly a CiderWebmail problem. It can happen with any application 
using the Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::FastMmap module. But the suggested 
solution seems always to be the same:

http://www.google.com/search?q="Open+of+share+file"+"session_data"+failed

Maybe we should use some other session storage plugin. FastMmap can be an 
annoyance with in house applications, but for an end user application it can 
be a real problem.

> However, despite extensive googling and grepping, I was unable to find
> any documentation of how to configure the session storage, or generally
> what I can put into the ciderwebmail.conf file.

Ok, we definitely need some description of the config file. Thanks for that 
hint.

Regards,
Stefan