PostfixAdmin Installation

Downloading

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/postfixadmin/postfixadmin-2.1.0.tgz

Extract the Source

tar -xvzf postfixadmin-2.1.0.tgz -C /tmp

Read the Documentation

PostfixAdmin can be a bit tricky to install. Read the INSTALL.TXT, it can answer many of your questions

Begin Installation

Start by moving the postfixadmin to its prefered destination.

mv /tmp/postfixadmin-2.1.0/ /var/www/postfixadmin

Changing Permissions

To make postfixadmin more secure we need to change the permissions.

This will create an empty file

touch /tmp/chmod-postfixadmin.sh

Now edit the new file with your favorite editor and paste the following lines into it.

#!/bin/bash
cd /var/www/postfixadmin
chmod 640 *.php *.css
cd /var/www/postfixadmin/admin/
chmod 640 *.php .ht*
cd /var/www/postfixadmin/images/
chmod 640 *.gif *.png
cd /var/www/postfixadmin/languages/
chmod 640 *.lang
cd /var/www/postfixadmin/templates/
chmod 640 *.tpl
cd /var/www/postfixadmin/users/
chmod 640 *.php

Now run the script

/tmp/chmod-postfixadmin.sh

NOTE: You can do this by hand if you also.

Edit the Config Files

cp config.inc.php.sample config.inc.php

Now edit config.inc.php to your liking. Make sure to change these lines as a minimum.

$CONF['database_type'] = 'mysql';
$CONF['database_host'] = 'localhost';
$CONF['database_user'] = 'postfixadmin';
$CONF['database_password'] = 'postfixadmin';
$CONF['database_name'] = 'postfix';
$CONF['database_prefix'] = ;

Apache Setup

More to come.