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How To Install Roundcube Webmail
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The following tutorial will show you how to install and set-up the Roundcube webmail interface on a CentOS VPS.
What is Roundcube Webmail?
Roundcube Webmail is a web-based IMAP email client written in PHP. Its most prominent feature is the pervasive use of Ajax technology to present a more fluid and responsive user interface than the one of traditional webmail clients. It provides full functionality you expect from an email client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching, spell checking etc… |
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As usual, before proceeding any further, SSH to your CentOS 6 VPS, start a screen
session and make sure your system is fully up-to-date by running:
## screen -U -S roundcube-screen ## yum update
Roundcube requires PHP, a webserver and a database server. We are going to use the LAMP stack here, so, if LAMP is not already set-up on your system please search the learning center for tutorials on "How to install LAMP" (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) on CentOS 6 with phpMyAdmin and APC cache how to install LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) on CentOS 6.
Ok, next step is to set-up a database for Roundcube using the following commands:
## mysql -u root -p mysql> CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `roundcube`; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `roundcube` . * TO 'roundcube'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mySecretPassword'; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; mysql> quit
make sure you change ‘mySecretPassword
‘ with your own one.
Before downloading and installing it, let’s first create Roundcube’s Apache configuration file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/90-roundcube.conf
by using an editor:
## vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/90-roundcube.conf
and paste the following:
Alias /webmail /var/www/html/roundcubeOptions -Indexes AllowOverride All Order Deny,Allow Deny from All Order Deny,Allow Deny from All Order Deny,Allow Deny from All
Now, download and set-up the latest version to
/var/www/html/roundcube
using:
## curl -L "http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundcubemail/files/latest/download?source=files" > /tmp/roundcube-latest.tar.gz ## tar -zxf /tmp/roundcube-latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/html ## rm -f /tmp/roundcube-latest.tar.gz ## cd /var/www/html ## mv roundcubemail-* roundcube ## chown root: -R roundcube/ ## chown apache: -R roundcube/temp/ ## chown apache: -R roundcube/logs/
Next thing to do, is to set-up
main.inc.php
configuration file. But, before setting it up, let’s first create all the necessary database tables:
## mysql -u roundcube -p"mySecretPassword" roundcube < roundcube/SQL/mysql.initial.sql
again, make sure you use the correct MySQL user/password combination
with tables in place, proceed with copying the main.inc.php.dist
sample configuration file and editing main.inc.php
:
## cp roundcube/config/main.inc.php.dist roundcube/config/main.inc.php ## vim roundcube/config/main.inc.php
change: $rcmail_config['default_host'] = ''; to $rcmail_config['default_host'] = 'localhost'; change: $rcmail_config['smtp_server'] = ''; to $rcmail_config['smtp_server'] = 'localhost'; change: $rcmail_config['smtp_user'] = ''; to $rcmail_config['smtp_user'] = '%u'; change: $rcmail_config['smtp_pass'] = ''; to $rcmail_config['smtp_pass'] = '%p'; change: $rcmail_config['quota_zero_as_unlimited'] = false; to $rcmail_config['quota_zero_as_unlimited'] = true; change: $rcmail_config['preview_pane'] = false; to $rcmail_config['preview_pane'] = true; change: $rcmail_config['read_when_deleted'] = true; to $rcmail_config['read_when_deleted'] = false; change: $rcmail_config['check_all_folders'] = false; to $rcmail_config['check_all_folders'] = true;
save and close the configuration file and proceed with setting up the database configuration file:
## cp roundcube/config/db.inc.php.dist roundcube/config/db.inc.php ## vim roundcube/config/db.inc.php
change: $rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcube:pass@localhost/roundcubemail'; to $rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysqli://roundcube:mySecretPassword@localhost/roundcube';
save and close the configuration file and remove the
installer
directory using:
## rm -rf roundcube/installer/
finally, restart Apache using:
## service httpd restart
and login to your webmail at http://yourdomain.com/webmail
There are still other parts missing such as SSL encrypted connection, anti-spam service, digital signatures using opendkim, filter rules etc for a full-featured mail server. Simply search the Community Learning Center for more tutorials on these topics to show you how to set them up.
Of course, if you use Linux VPS Hosting packages, you don’t have to do any of this. Our admins will take care of it for you.
Tags: centos, install, Server, Setup, how to install, Roundcube, roundcube webmail, what is roundcube
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