Roundcube is a web browser based mail client & also known as webmail. It provides a GUI ( Graphical User Interface ) where end users can check their mails, can create & manage folders, can use address book to search email ids and lot of other webmail features.
To install roundcube on CentOS 7 followings are the prerequisite that should be installed.
- PHP
- Database ( MariaDB or MySQL )
- Web Server ( Apache )
- Any MTA – Postfix , Sendmail & Qmail
In My Case i have already installed Postfix with dovecot on CentOS 7 with
- Domain name = nsitmail.com
- Hostname = tec.nsitmail.com
Follow below Steps to install & configure latest versions of Roundcube :
Step:1 Install PHP , Database & Apache using below command :
[root@tec ~]# yum install httpd php php-common php-json php-xml php-mbstring php-imap php-pear-DB php-mysql mysql mariadb-server
Once the above package list is installed , set the time zone value in PHP .
root@tec ~]# vi /etc/php.ini date.timezone = Asia/Kolkata
Save & exit the file
Step:2 Create & Configure Roundcube Database
Let us first set the Initial settings & root password of Mariadb Server :
[root@tec ~]# systemctl start mariadb [root@tec ~]# systemctl enable mariadb ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mariadb.service' [root@tec ~]# [root@tec ~]# mysql_secure_installation
Above Command “mysql_secure_installation” will allow us to set root password , remove anonymous users , disable remote root login and will remove test database.
Now Create database for Roundube and grant all the permissions to the database
Step:3 Download tar file of Roundcube
Download latest version of Roundcube tar file either from their official site “https://roundcube.net/download/” or we can use below wget command.
[root@tec ~]# wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/roundcubemail/roundcubemail/1.1.3/roundcubemail-1.1.3-complete.tar.gz
Untar the downloaded file in your web server document root.
[root@tec ~]# tar -zxpvf roundcubemail-1.1.3-complete.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/
Rename the extracted file as Roundcube and set the required permissions
[root@tec html]# mv roundcubemail-1.1.3 roundcube [root@tec html]# chown apache:apache roundcube [root@tec html]#
Start the Apache service
[root@tec html]# systemctl start httpd [root@tec html]# systemctl enable httpd ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/httpd.service' [root@tec html]#
Step:4 Start Roundcube installation using web browser installer.
To start the installation of Rouncube , access the below url in the web browser
http://tec.nsitmail.com/roundcube/installer
click on Next…
Define the Database, Authentication Mechanism, SMTP & IMAP setting in this step. When We click on Create Config option it will ask us to Copy or download the configuration and save it as config.inc.php within the /var/www/html/roundcube/config/ directory of your Roundcube installation.
In my case i am using http based authentication mechanism , so i create one user on my Linux box and set its password using htpasswd command .
[root@tec ~]# htpasswd -c /home/linuxtechi/.htpasswd linuxtechi New password: Re-type new password: Adding password for user linuxtechi [root@tec ~]#
Remove the installer directory from your web server document root ( /var/www/html/roundcube )
[root@tec ~]# cd /var/www/html/roundcube/ [root@tec roundcube]# rm -rf installer [root@tec roundcube]#
Step:5 Now access your account using Roundcube
Open the url in the browser “http://tec.nsitmail.com/roundcube/” , use the credentials that we set using htpasswd command.
Roundcube installation is completed, Now explore it and enjoy.