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

2) Configuration and Starting

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)

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)

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.

  1. /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***

  1. *************end of script************** mkdir /null

mkdir /var/oxbackup

J Moncrieff

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