Summary of the installtion of Open-Xchange 0.8 on Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 (RHEL3).
Introduction
This document is not a complete HowTo or installation manual but only describes the issues I had while installing OX on RHEL 3.
Mainly, for the installation I used the following manuals:
What I did was that I followed the steps from the excellent Gentoo manual. For redhat specific steps the redhat 9 manual was used.
Note: There is no smtp and imap server installed on the machine; these installation steps were skipped.
Base Software
Most of the software required for OX can be fetched from one or the other of the RHEL-3-extra channels.
Additional software:
- Perl: All perl modules I fetched via CPAN – perl -MCPAN -e shell and then e.g. install Net::SSLeay)
- Javamail: Download from here and copy mail.jar from the archive to /usr/share/java/javamail.jar
Configuration of Base Software
- Postgres: Follow the instructions in the Redhat9 tutorial
- Apache for Tomcat: Use the Redhat9 instructions
Ldap: I used the slapd.conf from Redhat9 tutorial and added:
*include /<ox_install_dir/etc/acl_ox.conf
to the end of the file. The acl_ox.conf defines access rights for variuous components. Currently, I use a reduced config file copied from some suse tutorial.
acl_ox.conf:
access to dn.base="" by * read
access to dn.base="cn=Subschema" by * read
# userPassword
access to attr=userPassword
by self =w
by anonymous auth
by * none
# AddressBook
access to dn.subtree="o=AddressBook,ou=OxObjects,dc=ox-server,dc=de"
by group.exact="cn=AddressAdmins,o=AddressBook,ou=OxObjects,dc=ox-server,dc=de" write
by users read
by * none
# default rule allowing users full access to their own entries
access to *
by self write
by users read
OX installation
Configuration was done using the following command:
#!/bin/sh
./configure --prefix=/opt/openxchange \
--enable-webdav \
--with-mailjar=/usr/share/java/javamail/javamail.jar \
--with-activationjar=/usr/share/java/activation.jar\
--with-jdomjar=/usr/share/java/jdom.jar \
--with-xercesjar=/usr/share/java/xerces-j2.jar \
--with-jsdkjar=/usr/share/java/servletapi5.jar \
--with-jdbcjar=/usr/share/java/rh-postgresql3.jar \
--with-dbname=ox_db \
--with-dbuser=ox_user \
--with-dbpass=MYPASS \
--with-dbhost=localhost \
--with-tomcatuser=tomcat \
--with-runuid=tomcat \
--with-rungid=tomcat \
--with-htdocsdir=/var/www/html \
--with-cgibindir=/var/www/cgi-bin \
--with-domain=MYDOMAIN \
--with-organization="MYORGA" \
--with-basedn="dc=MYDOMAIN,dc=de" \
--with-rootdn="cn=Manager,dc=MYDOMAIN,dc=de"
Install the software via make && make install. If you get errors about missing write permissions change the ownership of ox_install_dir/var and subdirectories to tomcat
Finalizing installation
Basically everything important is described in teh Gentoo manual. What I had to do was::
ln -s /usr/bin/java /bin/java
Because of the missing ispell in RHEL 3 I had to disable spellchecking for the webmail component. What I did was:
cd /ox_install_dir/etc/webmail mv spellcheck.cfg spellcheck.cfg.orig touch spellcheck.cfg