Open-Xchange 0.8.0-5 at SME 6.01-01 and SME 7 beta4
Author : 
Dietmar Berteld
Contributor: Vincent Filali-Ansary
Tested on SME Version 6.01-01 GPL
Tested on SME Version 7 beta 4
Updated : 25 September 2005
License : GPL
This Howto describes the way to install the collaboration-suite Open-Xchange with SME 6.01-01 and SME 7beta4.
Thanks a lot to Vincent Filali-Ansary (
http://e-smith.dyndns.org) for the very brillant and effort work!
1) Download and Installation of the RPM's
- Make a temp-directory for the installation files with mkdir /temp
- Download the Open-Xchange-RPM' (Version for SME 6.01-01) and install them with rpm -iUvh *.rpm
(or with rpm ivh --nodeps --force *.rpm if you have yum updated your SME 6.0.1-01)
- Download the Open-Xchange-RPM' (Version for SME 7 beta4) and install them with rpm -iUvh *.rpm
2) Configuration and Starting
- the version for SME7 should detect your language.
- For version of SME6.01-01: The default localisation is in french. If you would like to change the preferred language, do the following:
new! you can change the default language in the panel ox.
change line 60 in the file /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/esmith/loginsme.pm from my $default_lang = "FR" to "EN" or "DE"
change line 48 file /usr/local/open-xchange/etc/admintools.conf from DEFAULT_PREF_LANG = "FR" to "EN" or "DE"
Do /usr/local/open-xchange/bin/initall_ox for the first initialisation of the postgresql DB
3) Create groups and users (manually)
- For creating groups, use /usr/local/open-xchange/sbin/addgroup_sme_ox
- For creating groups, use /usr/local/open-xchange/sbin/adduser_sme_ox
If you need help for these commands, use addgroup_sme_ox --help or adduser_sme_ox --help
Be careful with usernames and passwords: they should be exactly the same like your users and passwords at the SME-Server!
4) Create groups and users (automatically)
- this is not needed for the sme7 version.
- For initially creating users and groups, use Vincent's brandnew rpm called sme-openexchange-conf-0.805-xx from here.
For install or upgrade use only the pair "rpm -e sme-openexchange-conf" for delete and "rpm -ivh sme-openexchange-conf-(version)..." to install. By default all existing users have the pair accounts-password (on OX) identical. So one thing is remaining:
The users have to recreate their passwords once again to synchronize with Open-Xchange.
This Panel is still in BETA-STATUS and should be used at your own risk, but I have tested it myself and it goes perfectly.
When finished, you can start with http://<yourserver>/cgi-bin/login.pl
Have a lot of fun!
Rgds.
Dietmar
To run nightly backups as a cron add this script in /etc/cron.daily cail is oxback.
/bin/sh
echo "*** Creating Dump of OpenXchange SQL Database ..."
date=`date -I`
pg_dump -U openexchange openexchange | gzip >jdmonc/oxbackup/openexchange$date$
echo "*** Finished SQL Dump" cd /null dir /var/oxbackup/ echo *** All is will Jeff***
- *************end of script************** mkdir /null
mkdir /var/oxbackup
J Moncrieff
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