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eGroupware requirements
- System software e.g. Linux, Windows or MacOSX
- Downloading the eGroupWare Package
- Webserver and php-Interpreter e.g. Apache, IIS recommended Apache 2, min. php 4.3, recommended php 5
- Database (SQL) e.g. MySQL, Postgres, MaxDB, MSSQL min. MySQL 4.0, recommended MySQL 4.1 or 5.0
- SMTP-Server e.g. Postfix
- Client Browser e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer
- Client IMAP-Server e.g. Cyrus (POP3 also possible, supported only by Anglemail – not by the standard email application FelaMiMail.
Before installing egroupware you have to install apache2 and mysql with php support
Web Server Setup
Install apache2 with php support check here
Database Server Setup
Install mysql with php support
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev
sudo apt-get install php4-mysql
If you want to install php5 support use the following command
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
Install postfix in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude install postfix mailx
choose satellite system and just press enter when asked other questions, but don’t select any relay host (remove smtp.xxx.xxxx)
Change /etc/mailname to say: test.com
Change /etc/aliases such that,
# Added by installer for initial user
root: holst@test.com
Replace holst@test.com with your own e-mail address!
Finally, do as root
newalises
restart postfix using the following command
sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart
and if you want to install imap or pop3 servers you can install of your choice and this is only optional.
Installing eGroupware in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude install egroupware
This will start the installation process and you see the following screen first
Now it will ask for which webserver you want to configure for egroupware i am using apache2 and select which one you are using from the list.
Enter the which user you want to use for header user admin and i have entered admin and click on ok
enter the header admin user password
Confirm the header admin password
this time you have choose the option for libc-client without maildir support and i am selecting yes and click on ok
That’s it this will complete the egroupware basic installation.
Go to http://yourserverip/egroupware/setup/ to setup egroupware
Select Your Language and click on “Run Installation Tests”
Now you should see similar to the following screen here you need to click on “Continue to the Header Admin”
Enter your header user admin username and password to login.
Once you login you should see the following screen in this you need to enter all the required fields with the exact information.Important one is enter the configuration username and password for you to login after installation .You click on Add new database instance and write config click on continue.
header.inc.php created click on continue
Now you need to enter the setup/config admin login details and click on login
Here you need to enter DB root username,password and click on Create database
you should see the following screen with red cross marks first thing is you need to click on install button to install all the required applications
Now you should see the following screen with two red cross marks this means you have to setup mail server settings, create the admin account.
Once you created everything you should see similar to the following screen
Now you need to login using the following URL
http://yourserverip/egroupware/ enter your configuration admin username and password to login
Once you logged in into the egroupware you should see similar to the following screen
hey thanks for the info. i am very happy for every thing
i first setup failed but thanks to your notes
it went through very very well
thanks a lot for everything and look forward to hearing from you
john
Excellent instructions. I managed to get everything working on my 8.04 LTS server, apart from IMAP support. apt-get install php5-imap didn’t work as it seemed to think it was already installed. But egroupware was having none of it.
sudo apt-cache policy php5-imap
reveals
php5-imap:
Installed: 5.2.3-0ubuntu3
Candidate: 5.2.3-0ubuntu3
Version table:
*** 5.2.3-0ubuntu3 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Any ideas?
I found in a web site the following solution that worked for me.
“….
Make sure to also do a:
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
as the php5-imap is installed after the apache2 server is restarted and will not be loaded. The installation should be change so that the server is reloaded at the end of install.
…”
hope helps somebody,
ciao.
/etc/php5/conf.d/imap.ini is not created by installation process, so
when we restart apache and we try to use php-imap module it doesn’t work
because it wasn’t loaded by php5.
Creating the /etc/php5/conf.d/imap.ini file containing:
# configuration for php IMAP module
extension=imap.so
during the installation phase will solve the problem.
Found when I went a googling.
Checking file-permissions of .././etemplate/doc for not world writable:
.././etemplate/doc does not exist !!!
can anyone help me with this?
thank you guys!
* You appear to have MySQL support.
* You appear to have MySQLi (php5) support.
* No PostgreSQL support found. Disabling
* No MS SQL Server support found. Disabling
* No ODBC support found. Disabling
* No Oracle support found. Disabling
* You appear to have PHP session support. Enabling PHP sessions.
* Found existing configuration file. Loading settings from the file…
* You need to add some domains to your header.inc.php.
is this ok? i think i missed some things…