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Revision as of 07:22, 29 July 2006

NOTE: This HowTo assumes you are using a RedHat or Fedora based distro, but most of this info can be applied to any Unix based Operating System.

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Download

• Download the latest version of Roundcube

wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/roundcubemail/roundcubemail-0.1beta.tar.gz

If the Above link is broken or out of date, get the latest version Here

UnTar

tar -xvzf roundcubemail-0.1beta.tar.gz

Move

mv roundcubemail-0.1beta /var/www/roundcube

Read the Documentation

cd /var/www/roundcube less README (press q to quit)

less INSTALL (press q to quit)

Change Ownership & Premissions

chown -R root.root roundcube/ cd roundbube/ chmod 755 log/ temp/

Database Setup

(This Assumes you already have MySQL installed)

• Creating the RoundCube Database
  

mysql -u root -p (When prompted for a password enter the root password)

mysql> CREATE DATABASE `roundcube` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

• Create RoundCube User and Grant Privileges
  

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roundcube.* TO roundcube@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'Your-Password-Here';
(where 'Your-Password-Here' is the password you want for the roundcube user)

• Exit MySQL
  

mysql> quit

• Import RoundCube Database Tables
  

mysql -u root -p roundcube < /var/www/roundcube/SQL/mysql.initial.sql
(When prompted for a password enter the root password)

Initial Configuration

• Copy the sample configuration file

cd config/ cp db.inc.php.dist db.inc.php cp main.inc.php.dist main.inc.php

• Configure Database Settings

vi db.inc.php

change this line: $rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcube:pass@localhost/roundcubemail';

to

$rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcube:Your-Password-Here@localhost/roundcube';

Note: I created the database as 'roundcube' but the sample database config calls it 'roundcubemail' change it where necessary

• Configure Main Settings

(NOTE: these are the settings I use, they may differ depending on your particular mail server configuration)

vi main.inc.php