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| a89845 | 1 | INTRODUCTION |
| T | 2 | ============ |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | This file describes the basic steps to install RoundCube Webmail on your | |
| 5 | web server. For additional information, please also consult the project's | |
| 83ce4b | 6 | wiki page at http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki |
| T | 7 | |
| 4e17e6 | 8 | |
| 535da2 | 9 | REQUIREMENTS |
| T | 10 | ============ |
| 11 | ||
| 1fb2c8 | 12 | * The Apache or Lighttpd Webserver |
| 535da2 | 13 | * .htaccess support allowing overrides for DirectoryIndex |
| 47124c | 14 | * PHP Version 5.2 or greater including |
| 1fb2c8 | 15 | - PCRE (perl compatible regular expression) |
| 5d725e | 16 | - DOM (xml document object model) |
| 1fb2c8 | 17 | - libiconv (recommended) |
| T | 18 | - mbstring (optional) |
| 535da2 | 19 | * php.ini options: |
| T | 20 | - error_reporting E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE (or lower) |
| 25d8ba | 21 | - memory_limit (increase as suitable to support large attachments) |
| 067763 | 22 | - file_uploads enabled (for attachment upload features) |
| A | 23 | - session.auto_start disabled |
| 24 | - zend.ze1_compatibility_mode disabled | |
| 3a01c3 | 25 | * PHP compiled with OpenSSL to connect to IMAPS and to use the spell checker |
| 535da2 | 26 | * A MySQL or PostgreSQL database engine or the SQLite extension for PHP |
| 1fb2c8 | 27 | * One of the above databases with permission to create tables |
| T | 28 | * An SMTP server or PHP configured for mail delivery |
| 535da2 | 29 | |
| T | 30 | |
| 4e17e6 | 31 | INSTALLATION |
| T | 32 | ============ |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | 1. Decompress and put this folder somewhere inside your document root | |
| 10a699 | 35 | 2. Make sure that the following directories (and the files within) |
| T | 36 | are writable by the webserver |
| 4e17e6 | 37 | - /temp |
| T | 38 | - /logs |
| 10a699 | 39 | 3. Create a new database and a database user for RoundCube (see DATABASE SETUP) |
| 967b34 | 40 | 4. Point your browser to http://url-to-roundcube/installer/ |
| b8ae99 | 41 | 5. Follow the instructions of the install script (or see MANUAL CONFIGURATION) |
| 190e97 | 42 | 6. After creating and testing the configuration, remove the installer directory |
| 42b113 | 43 | 7. Done! |
| T | 44 | |
| 45 | ||
| 4b20e2 | 46 | CONFIGURATION HINTS |
| T | 47 | =================== |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | RoundCube writes internal errors to the 'errors' log file located in the logs | |
| 50 | directory which can be configured in config/main.inc.php. If you want ordinary | |
| 51 | PHP errors to be logged there as well, enable the 'php_value error_log' line | |
| 52 | in the .htaccess file and set the path to the log file accordingly. | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | ||
| 10a699 | 55 | DATABASE SETUP |
| T | 56 | ============== |
| 57 | ||
| 0ba548 | 58 | Note: Database for RoundCube must use UTF-8 character set. |
| A | 59 | |
| fa898a | 60 | * MySQL |
| T | 61 | ------- |
| 10a699 | 62 | Setting up the mysql database can be done by creating an empty database, |
| T | 63 | importing the table layout and granting the proper permissions to the |
| 64 | roundcube user. Here is an example of that procedure: | |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | # mysql | |
| ad5600 | 67 | > CREATE DATABASE roundcubemail /*!40101 CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci */; |
| 10a699 | 68 | > GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roundcubemail.* TO roundcube@localhost |
| 6ae6e4 | 69 | IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; |
| 10a699 | 70 | > quit |
| fa898a | 71 | |
| 10a699 | 72 | # mysql roundcubemail < SQL/mysql.initial.sql |
| 535da2 | 73 | |
| fa898a | 74 | Note 1: 'password' is the master password for the roundcube user. It is strongly |
| 3cf664 | 75 | recommended you replace this with a more secure password. Please keep in |
| T | 76 | mind: You need to specify this password later in 'config/db.inc.php'. |
| fa898a | 77 | |
| 1cded8 | 78 | |
| 10a699 | 79 | * SQLite |
| T | 80 | -------- |
| 50d515 | 81 | You need sqlite 2 (preferably 2.8) to setup the sqlite db |
| A | 82 | (sqlite 3.x also doesn't work at the moment). Here is |
| 10a699 | 83 | an example how you can setup the sqlite.db for roundcube: |
| T | 84 | |
| 85 | # sqlite -init SQL/sqlite.initial.sql sqlite.db | |
| d7f49d | 86 | Loading resources from SQL/sqlite.initial.sql |
| T | 87 | SQLite version 2.8.16 |
| 88 | Enter ".help" for instructions | |
| 89 | sqlite> .exit | |
| 90 | # chmod o+rw sqlite.db | |
| 10a699 | 91 | |
| T | 92 | Make sure your configuration points to the sqlite.db file and that the |
| 83ce4b | 93 | webserver can write to the file and the directory containing the file. |
| 10a699 | 94 | |
| T | 95 | |
| 1cded8 | 96 | * PostgreSQL |
| T | 97 | ------------ |
| a89845 | 98 | To use RoundCube with PostgreSQL support you have to follow these |
| T | 99 | simple steps, which have to be done as the postgres system user (or |
| 1cded8 | 100 | which ever is the database superuser): |
| T | 101 | |
| a89845 | 102 | $ createuser roundcube |
| ad5600 | 103 | $ createdb -O roundcube -E UNICODE roundcubemail |
| 1cded8 | 104 | $ psql roundcubemail |
| T | 105 | |
| 106 | roundcubemail =# ALTER USER roundcube WITH PASSWORD 'the_new_password'; | |
| a89845 | 107 | roundcubemail =# \c - roundcube |
| 1cded8 | 108 | roundcubemail => \i SQL/postgres.initial.sql |
| T | 109 | |
| a89845 | 110 | All this has been tested with PostgreSQL 8.x and 7.4.x. Older |
| 1cded8 | 111 | versions don't have a -O option for the createdb, so if you are |
| T | 112 | using that version you'll have to change ownership of the DB later. |
| 113 | ||
| 114 | ||
| 190e97 | 115 | MANUAL CONFIGURATION |
| T | 116 | ==================== |
| 535da2 | 117 | |
| a89845 | 118 | First of all, rename the files config/*.inc.php.dist to config/*.inc.php. |
| T | 119 | You can then change these files according to your environment and your needs. |
| 120 | Details about the config parameters can be found in the config files. | |
| 190e97 | 121 | See http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Howto_Install for even more guidance. |
| 535da2 | 122 | |
| 4b9efb | 123 | You can also modify the default .htaccess file. This is necessary to |
| S | 124 | increase the allowed size of file attachments, for example: |
| 125 | php_value upload_max_filesize 2M | |
| 535da2 | 126 | |
| 83ce4b | 127 | |
| 42b113 | 128 | UPGRADING |
| T | 129 | ========= |
| 6ae6e4 | 130 | |
| 42b113 | 131 | If you already have a previous version of RoundCube installed, |
| T | 132 | please refer to the instructions in UPGRADING guide. |
| 4e17e6 | 133 | |
| T | 134 | |
| d7f49d | 135 | OPTIMISING |
| T | 136 | ========== |
| 137 | ||
| 138 | There are two forms of optimisation here, compression and caching, both aimed | |
| 139 | at increasing an end user's experience using RoundCube Webmail. Compression | |
| 140 | allows the static web pages to be delivered with less bandwidth. The index.php | |
| 141 | of RoundCube Webmail already enables compression on its output. The settings | |
| 142 | below allow compression to occur for all static files. Caching sets HTTP | |
| 143 | response headers that enable a user's web client to understand what is static | |
| 144 | and how to cache it. | |
| 145 | ||
| 146 | The caching directives used are: | |
| 147 | * Etags - sets at tag so the client can request is the page has changed | |
| 148 | * Cache-control - defines the age of the page and that the page is 'public' | |
| 149 | This enables clients to cache javascript files that don't have private | |
| 150 | information between sessions even if using HTTPS. It also allows proxies | |
| 151 | to share the same cached page between users. | |
| 152 | * Expires - provides another hint to increase the lifetime of static pages. | |
| 153 | ||
| 154 | For more information refer to RFC 2616. | |
| 155 | ||
| 156 | Side effects: | |
| 157 | ------------- | |
| 158 | These directives are designed for production use. If you are using this in | |
| 159 | a development environment you may get horribly confused if your webclient | |
| 160 | is caching stuff that you changed on the server. Disabling the expires | |
| 161 | parts below should save you some grief. | |
| 162 | ||
| 163 | If you are changing the skins, it is recommended that you copy content to | |
| 164 | a different directory apart from 'default'. | |
| 165 | ||
| 166 | Apache: | |
| 167 | ------- | |
| 168 | To enable these features in apache the following modules need to be enabled: | |
| a5c2ad | 169 | * mod_deflate |
| A | 170 | * mod_expires |
| d7f49d | 171 | * mod_headers |
| T | 172 | |
| 173 | The optimisation is already included in the .htaccess file in the top | |
| 174 | directory of your installation. | |
| 175 | ||
| 176 | If you are using Apache version 2.2.9 and later, in the .htaccess file | |
| 177 | change the 'append' word to 'merge' for a more correct response. Keeping | |
| 178 | as 'append' shouldn't cause any problems though changing to merge will | |
| 179 | eliminate the possibility of duplicate 'public' headers in Cache-control. | |
| 180 | ||
| 181 | Lighttpd: | |
| 182 | --------- | |
| 183 | With Lightty the addition of Expire: tags by mod_expire is incompatible with | |
| 184 | the addition of "Cache-control: public". Using Cache-control 'public' is | |
| 185 | used below as it is assumed to give a better caching result. | |
| 186 | ||
| 187 | Enable modules in server.modules: | |
| 188 | "mod_setenv" | |
| 189 | "mod_compress" | |
| 190 | ||
| 191 | Mod_compress is a server side cache of compressed files to improve its performance. | |
| 192 | ||
| 193 | $HTTP["host"] == "www.example.com" { | |
| 194 | ||
| 195 | static-file.etags = "enable" | |
| 196 | # http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Etag.use-mtimeDetails | |
| 197 | etag.use-mtime = "enable" | |
| 198 | ||
| 199 | # http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:ModSetEnv | |
| 200 | $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/roundcubemail/(plugins|skins|program)" { | |
| 201 | setenv.add-response-header = ( "Cache-Control" => "public, max-age=2592000") | |
| 202 | } | |
| 203 | ||
| 204 | # http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:ModCompress | |
| 205 | # set compress.cache-dir to somewhere outside the docroot. | |
| 206 | compress.cache-dir = var.statedir + "/cache/compress" | |
| 207 | ||
| 208 | compress.filetype = ("text/plain", "text/html", "text/javascript", "text/css", "text/xml", "image/gif", "image/png") | |
| 209 | } | |
| 210 | ||
| 211 | ||
