Saturday, March 26, 2011

Open-xchange to install Debian Linux

 

Since its beginnings as a Microsoft Exchange alternative for small, medium-sized businessed, the Open-Xchange collaboration suite has stretched a bit beyond just a messaging solution. The flagship product, open-xchange server is a complete collaborative platform, in particular with the addition of the InfoStore-document-sharing module. Here is how to install Open-Xchange server, on the way to replace Exchange.

Open-xchange is a multimedia tidal of flavors. It is, of course, the stand-alone Server-Edition, as also the hosting Edition, which provides open-xchange users as a Web app. The Advanced Server Edition features the same Web based user interface in the hosting Edition, but ensures content in a similar way as the Server Edition. The Open-Xchange appliance Edition also used the Web based GUI, and acts as a completely stand-alone appliance with a wizard-based interface to get started.

In this article we'll go old-school and go by setting the Server Edition (SE) on a Debian (lenny).

In addition to Debian GNU/Linux is open-xchange SE optimized on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 run. Additional software requirements include a MySQL database, Oracle Java VM 1.5 and an IMAP server such as Cyrus, courier, Dovecot, UW-IMAP. Finding all of these pieces is delivered Open-Xchange SE not difficult, as you with the SE package. But you need to know how you all these services, which requires a fair amount of expertise, because no GUI configuration tools for the Server Edition to configure it.

In particular, 6.18, as well as the basic configuration steps will demonstrate in this article to set up open-xchange SE. This is a single-server installation, without any distributed or clustering features of the ausgebrachtes product involved. All you need is a Debian Lenny installation and a working Internet connection.

The easiest way to open-xchange SE install on Debian, that add Open-Xchange-repository to the repository list and allow Debian Package Manager the heavy lifting.

Start to start the Terminal application to your favorite editor, that of the Open-Xchange software repository information file sources.list add Debian repository be changed.

$ Sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add at the end of the file:

Deb http://software.open-xchange.com/OX6/6.18/DebianLenny/ /

In addition, you must also Sun Java and so should the Debian-non-free repository add/if you select is not already in the sources.list file:

 

Deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny of main not Freedeb src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny of main not Freedeb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates of main non-Freedeb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny / updates main non-free

 

Download the package index with the next command. This will download the package descriptions available in the software repositories:

 

$ Sudo apt-get update

 

Because Open-Xchange starts with meta packages after version 6.16, much can give you a command to the downloading and installing all necessary packages of an open-xchange deployment on a single server start pretty:

$ Sudo apt-get install MySQL-Server Open-Xchange-meta-single server Open-Xchange authentication database open-xchange-Spamhandler-default

Usually automatically runs the installation process, but you have to allow to see the Sun JRE packages. If you want to manage only your Open-Xchange installation of database and should not project to integrate, such as with LDAP and open-XchangeLDAPSync, you also install the package of Open-Xchange-meta-Databaseonly.

You can still individually install the individual packages if you need to select a specific set of functionality that you want to have. No matter what sure to install the MySQL-Server package together with the (meta) packages that you use for your installation.

If you installed the packages, it is time to configure the system. There are three levels of administration that require different credentials at some point during the installation and configuration of the server. The provided passwords are weak and replaced by stronger passwords need to be.

The MySQL database useranwendername: open exchange password made available: Db_password

The Open-Xchange admin master

User name: OxadminmasterPassword provided: Admin_master_password

The context Admin

User name: OxadminPassword provided: Admin_password

To set up open-xchange SE, it is imperative, for the database are running:

$ /etc/init.d/mysql start

It is also a good idea is there, the Open-Xchange binaries to your $PATH add:

Echo $ PATH



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