Setup eGroupware
Before you start
Necessary and configured ClearOS modules:
- LDAP
- Mail (incl. IMAP/POP server module, SMTP server module)
- MySQL database server module
- Web server module (incl. PHP module)
Required information during installation:
- [Root password]
- [LDAP Bind Password]
- [MySQL root password]
Installing Packages
eGroupware is a PHP application but needs Pear (a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components: more info here)
yum install php-pear.noarch php-gd.i386 php-xml.i386 apachectl restart pear upgrade-all pear install Auth_SASL pear install XML_Feed_Parser apachectl restart
eGroupware environment
Let's download and unpack the eGroupware packages onto the web server.
cd /var/www/html wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware/files/egroupware/eGroupware-1.6.002/eGroupware-1.6.002.tar.bz2/download wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware/files/egroupware/eGroupware-1.6.002/eGroupware-egw-pear-1.6.002.tar.bz2/download tar xvf eGroupware-1.6.002.tar.bz2 tar xvf eGroupware-egw-pear-1.6.002.tar.bz2 rm -fv eGroupware-1.6.002.tar.bz2 eGroupware-egw-pear-1.6.002.tar.bz2
In /etc/PHP.ini change the following settings:
| Old setting | New setting |
|---|---|
| memory_limit = 16M | memory_limit = 96M |
| upload_max_filesize = 2M | upload_max_filesize = 8M |
| ;mbstring.func_overload = x | mbstring.func_overload = 7 |
and for the changes to take effect
apachectl restart
Installing eGroupware
And now for the fun part….. fire up your browser to start the eGroupware setup: http://[FQDN]/egroupware/setup
Click a set of tests is now run, if the PHP.ini settings have been set as stated above, then you should see no 'red crosses' (errors that must be resolved) and only a few 'yellow thunderstrikes' (warnings regarding not installed database connectors → important: the MySQL connector must pass the test)
Click The header file is the actual configuration file that is needed to initialize eGroupware.
You can leave the settings default, but must specify (and note) passwords for the following accounts:
- Header Username: admin / Header Password: [specify]
- DB User: egroupware / DB Password: [specify]
- Configuration User: admin / Configuration Password: [specify]
!Do NOT Click: because you do not have root access to MySQL
Because the header.inc.php cannot be created due to file permission restrictions you need to click and upload the file in /var/www/html/egroupware (or click and copy the contents in the console screen (VI))
In your (ssh) console run the following to protect your newly created header file and create two directories you will be needing later on
chmod 640 /var/www/html/egroupware/header.inc.php chown :apache /var/www/html/egroupware/header.inc.php mkdir -p /var/lib/egroupware/default/files /var/lib/egroupware/default/backup chown -R apache /var/lib/egroupware/default/
you should now be able to login to the 'Setup/Config Admin Login' screen using your freshly created 'configuration user': admin
Step 1 - Simple Application Management
Note that there is a message that the database is not working. This is because setup is trying to create a database with the newly created 'DB user' who does not have these rights.
Just fill in your [MySQL root password] and click and if you don't see any errors click
if you get the message: “Your database is working, but you dont have any applications installed”, click (to install all applications), and if you don't see any errors click .
Step 2 - Configuration
- Path information, Virtual filesystem → [keep default]
- Host information → fill in your own server settings
- Standard mailserver settings (used for Mail authentication too) → fill in your own server settings
- Authentication / Accounts →
- Select which type of authentication you are using: choose [LDAP]
- Select where you want to store/retrieve user accounts: [LDAP]
- → [keep rest default]
- If using LDAP → fill in your LDAP settings
- LDAP host: 127.0.0.1
- LDAP accounts: ou=Users,ou=Accounts,dc=xceed,dc=no-ip,dc=org
- LDAP search filter..: [empty]
- LDAP groups context: ou=Groups,ou=Accounts,dc=xceed,dc=no-ip,dc=org
- LDAP rootdn: cn=manager,cn=internal,dc=xceed,dc=no-ip,dc=org
- LDAP root password: [this is the [LDAP Bind Password] as stated in the ClearOS web interface (Directory → Setup → Domain and LDAP → LDAP information)
- LDAP encryption type: MD5
- Do you want to manage homedirectory and loginshell attributes?: No
- LDAP Default homedirectory prefix (e.g. /home for /home/username): /home
- LDAP Default shell (e.g. /bin/bash): /bin/bash
Step 3 - Admin Account
Click (The account used for administrating all user accounts and settings.
- Give admin access to all installed apps → [empty]
- Create demo accountsCreate demo account]
Thats it!
Now click (left side frame) and log in with your newly created admin account…..
Click (first icon next to the logo) and select 'User Accounts'
Click behind you user account name.
In the 'Edit user account' screen check the information and select the applications that you want to use (with this account).
Click You can now log in with your own account.