[[toc]] + ** Installing Horde Groupware Webmail Edition on CentOS 5 ** ##red|** ------- NOT READY YET!! DO NOT USE UNTIL IT'S COMPLETED!! ------- **## Horde Groupware Webmail Edition is a free, enterprise ready, browser based communication suite. Users can read, send and organize email messages and manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project. Horde Groupware Webmail Edition **bundles the separately available applications IMP, Ingo, Kronolith, Turba, Nag and Mnemo.** ||http://www.horde.org/webmail/|| ++ Versions * CentOS 5.0 i386 (OS) * Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 1.0.3 (October 2 2007) * Apache (http server) * MySQL 5.0.22 (db server) * Postfix (mail server) * Dovecot (IMAP) ++ Installing prerequisites <code> yum install -y gettext httpd mysql mysql-server dovecot postfix system-switch-mail perl yum install -y php php-mysql php-xml php-imap php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-pecl-Fileinfo php-pecl-memcache php-pear-DB php-pear-File php-pear-Log php-pear-Mail-Mime php-pear-Auth-SASL php-pear-Date php-pear-HTTP-Request php-pear-Mail php-pear-Net-Sieve php-pear-Net-Socket php-pear-Net-SMTP </code> ++ Set up your host name and address * Edit /etc/hosts to something like this, according to your system settings: <code> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.100 yourhostname.yourdomain.com yourhostname ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 </code> ++ Configuring Postfix and Dovecot * Turn off sendmail <code> service sendmail stop chkconfig sendmail off system-switch-mail (select postfix) </code> * Configure postfix and dovecot to allow the creation of mail subfolders <code> postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/' </code> * Edit /etc/dovecot.conf and add the following to the end of the file: <code> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace private { separator = / prefix = "" inbox = yes } </code> * Add the following to /etc/dovecot.conf to enable the IMAP protocol: <code> protocols = imap </code> * To configure the rest of postfix, take a look at this nice tutorial: ||http://fedorasolved.org/server-solutions/postfix-mail-server|| ++ Start services: <code> service httpd start chkconfig httpd on service postfix start chkconfig postfix on service dovecot start chkconfig dovecot on service mysqld start chkconfig mysqld on </code> * Configure mysqld root password: <code> /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h yourhostname.yordomain.com password 'new-password' </code> ++ Download Horde G. W. Edition and extract * Get the latest stable version of Horde Groupware Webmail Edition: ||http://www.horde.org/download/app/?app=webmail|| * Extract and rename files <code> tar zxf horde-webmail-1.0.3.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/ mv /var/www/html/horde-*/ /var/www/html/horde/ cd /var/www/html/horde/config rm -rf hooks.php.dist for d in *.dist; do d0=`basename $d .dist`; if [ ! -f "$d0" ]; then cp -p $d $d0; fi; done </code> ++ Security configuration * For horde framework <code> chown root:apache -Rv /var/www/html/horde/ chmod 0770 -Rv /var/www/html/horde chmod 0640 -v /var/www/html/horde/config/*.dist chmod 0640 -v /var/www/html/horde/config/.htaccess chmod go-rwx /var/www/html/horde/test.php chown -R root:apache /var/www/html/horde/config chmod -R 750 /var/www/html/horde/config chown -R root:apache /var/www/html/horde/config/.htaccess chmod -R 640 /var/www/html/horde/config/.htaccess chown -R root:apache /var/www/html/horde/config/*.dist chmod -R 640 /var/www/html/horde/config/*.dist </code> * For IMP ... ++ Creating database cd /var/www/html/horde/scripts/ ./setup.php Press 1; choose mysql; Persistent connection 0; Username horde; Choose a password for mysql user horde; Unix sockets; Locatio null; DB name horde; Press 2; yes; root; root mysql password; Press 3; specify an existing IMAP user to have horde administration permissions ... (Later I'll continue this howto)