X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?p=squirrelmail.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=4938d6927113c30b80acb1be0c14f0b7b277dc23;hp=01638ee67209801bcd9d0022116a6be2fbd47b7e;hb=26e90c74aeb5d8728f4fa08bea938064730f41bf;hpb=17cec4545753ecf11fc0b9a115df53e751540024 diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 01638ee6..4938d692 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,64 +1,81 @@ -Sorry for the incomplete documentation at this time. Here is a quick -overview of how to install SquirrelMail. +Installing SquirrelMail +======================= + +Table of Contents: + 0. (QUICK!) Quick install guide + 1. (PHP4) Configure your webserver to work with PHP4 + 2. (IMAP) Setting up IMAP (not covered) + 3. (INSTALL) Obtaining and installing SquirrelMail + 4. (RUN) Running SquirrelMail + 5. (CHARSETS) Russian Charsets + 6. (LOCALES) Translations of SquirrelMail + + +0. QUICK INSTALL GUIDE +---------------------- + +Each of these steps is covered in detail below. + +- Install webserver and PHP4 (at least 4.1.0). +- Install IMAP server (see docs of that server). +- Unpack the SquirrelMail package in a web-accessible location. +- Select a data-dir and attachment dir, outside the webtree (e.g. in /var). + The data-dir (for user prefs) should be owned by the user the webserver + runs as (eg www-data). The attachment dir (for uploading files as + attachments) should be file mode 0730 and in the same group as the + webserver. +- Run config/conf.pl from the command line. Use the D option to load + predefined options for specific IMAP servers, and edit at least the + Server Settings and General Options (datadir). +- Browse to http://www.example.com/yourwebmaillocation/src/configtest.php + to test your configuration for common errors. +- Browse to http://www.example.com/yourwebmaillocation/ to log in. + 1. CONFIGURE YOUR WEBSERVER TO WORK WITH PHP4 --------------------------------------------- - If your webserver does not already have PHP4 you must configure it - to work with PHP4. SquirrelMail uses the standard suffix .php for - all PHP4 files. This is a quick and dirty guide to installing PHP4 - to run as CGI under Apache. How you end up doing this is up to you - (your mileage may vary). - -a. Obtaining and compiling PHP4 - - Point your favorite webserver at http://www.php.net/version4/ and - download the source. Untar (tar xvfz filename-you-downloaded.tgz) - the source, cd into the directory and run configure. To make PHP4 - work with SquirrelMail a commandline like this should do: - - ./configure --enable-track-vars --enable-force-cgi-redirect --with-gettext - - If you have a database like MySQL you might want to add something - like --with-mysql to get database functionality. - - Run make to build the binary file. This will generate a binary file - called "php". Move this file into a CGI-directory. - - You might also want to read the INSTALL file in the PHP-distribution - :-) - -b. Setting up .php files to use PHP4 - - You need to create a .htaccess file in you SquirrelMail directory - that looks something like this: + If your webserver does not already have PHP you must configure it + to work with PHP. You need at least PHP v4.1.0. SquirrelMail uses + the standard suffix .php for all PHP4 files. + + You can find PHP at http://www.php.net. See the documentation that + comes with PHP for instructions how to set it up. - AddType application/php4script .php - Action application/php4script /cgi-bin/php + The PHP IMAP extension is NOT neccessary at all (but won't harm)! + Below is a list of optional PHP extensions: - You could also add these lines to your Apache configuration file. + --with-ldap Required for LDAP addressbooks + --with-mhash Will improve charset decoding if present + --with-mysql For MySQL storage of preferences or addressbooks + --with-openssl When you want to use encrypted IMAP connections (TLS) + + If you're going to use LDAP in the addressbook, you must compile PHP + with the LDAP extension. Include the MHASH extension to improve + performance in character set decoding. -c. Running into trouble + If you want your users to attach files to their mails, make sure + File Uploads in php.ini is set to On. - Setting up Apache with PHP4 can be a non-trivial task. Read the PHP4 - and Apache documentation carefully if you run into trouble. If you - have an experienced system administrator around ask her/him to help - you. 2. SETTING UP IMAP ------------------ - This is not covered here :-/ + This depends a lot on the server your choose. See the documentation + that comes with your server. + + If you're concerned about people accessing it directly, you can + limit access to only the IP of the webserver. + 3. OBTAINING AND INSTALLING SQUIRRELMAIL ---------------------------------------- - SquirrelMail is still under development. Therefore you should always - get the newest version around. Look at - http://squirrelmail.sourceforge.net/index.php3?page=5 to see what it - is. If you want to be bleeding edge you might want to consider using - the latest CVS version (with the latest and most fashionable of - bugs). + SquirrelMail is constantly being improved. Therefore you should always + get the newest version around. Look at http://www.squirrelmail.org + to see what it is. If you want to be bleeding edge you might want to + consider using the latest CVS version (with the latest and most + fashionable bugs). a. Download SquirrelMail @@ -75,13 +92,18 @@ b. Setting up directories The data directory is used for storing user preferences, like signature, name and theme. When unpacking the sources this directory - is created as data/ in you SquirrelMail directory. This directory + is created as data/ in your SquirrelMail directory. This directory must be writable by the webserver. If your webserver is running as - the user nobody you can fix this by running: + the user "nobody" you can fix this by running: + + $ chown -R nobody data + $ chgrp -R nobody data + + Keep in mind that with different installations, the web server could + typically run as userid/groupid of nobody/nobody, nobody/nogroup, + apache/apache or www-data/www-data. The best way to find out is to read + the web server's configuration file. - chown -R nobody data - chgrp -R nobody data - There also needs to be a directory where attachments are stored before they are sent. Since personal mail is stored in this directory you might want to be a bit careful about how you set it @@ -91,27 +113,93 @@ b. Setting up directories permissions. You could do this by running these commands (still granted that the webserver is running as nobody/nobody) - cd /var/some/place - mkdir SomeDirectory - chgrp -R nobody SomeDirectory - chmod 730 SomeDirectory + $ cd /var/some/place + $ mkdir SomeDirectory + $ chgrp -R nobody SomeDirectory + $ chmod 730 SomeDirectory If you trust all the users on you system not to read mail they are not supposed to read change the last line to chmod 777 SomeDirectory - or simply use /tmp as you attachments directory. If a user is - aborting a mail but has uploaded som attachments to it the files - will be lying around in this directory forever if you do not remove - them. + or simply use /tmp as you attachments directory. + + If a user is aborting a mail but has uploaded some attachments to it + the files will be lying around in this directory forever if you do not + remove them. To fix this, it is recommended to create a cron job that + deletes everything in the attachment directory. Something similar + to the following will be good enough: + + $ cd /var/attach/directory + $ rm -f * + + However, this will delete attachments that are currently in use by people + sending email when the cron job runs. You can either (1) make sure that + the cron job runs at an obscure hour and hope that nobody gets upset, or + (2) you can run a modified version of the commands above. Check out the + man pages for other commands such as 'find' or 'tmpreaper'. + + One sample script you could set up that would erase all attachments, but + wouldn't erase preferences, address books, or the like (just in case your + attachment directory is the same as your data directory) might look like + this: + + $ rm `find /var/attach/directory -atime +2 | grep -v "\." | grep -v _` + + Remember to be careful with whatever method you do use, and to test out + the command before it potentially wipes out everyone's preferences. c. Setting up SquirrelMail - All configuration directives you need to worry about in SquirrelMail - is in the file config/config.php in you SquirrelMail directory. This - file is pretty well commented. + There are two ways to configure SquirrelMail. In the config/ directory, + there is a perl script called conf.pl that will aid you in the + configuration process. This is the recommended way of handling + the config. + + You can also copy the config/config_default.php file to config/config.php + and edit that manually. + + After you've created a configuration, you can use your webbrowser to + browse to http://your-squirrelmail-location/src/configtest.php. + This will perform some basic checks on your config to make sure + everything works like it should. + 4. RUNNING SQUIRRELMAIL ----------------------- - Point your browser at the URL at which SquirrelMail is installed. It - should be pretty stright forward to use. Some more documentation - might show up onbe day or another. \ No newline at end of file + Point your browser at the URL at which SquirrelMail is installed. A + possible example of this is: + http://www.yourdomain.com/squirrelmail + + It should be pretty straight forward to use. Some more documentation + might show up one day or another. + + +5. RUSSIAN CHARSETS +------------------- + + For information on how to make SquirrelMail work with Russian + Apache, see the README.russian_apache in the doc/ subdirectory. + + +6. TRANSLATIONS +--------------- + + In order to use translated versions of SquirrelMail, you need + to download and install locale packages that contain translations + that you want to use with squirrelmail. + + Locale packages can be downloaded from SquirrelMail SourceForge + project page. + + http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=311&package_id=110388 + + Each translation contains install script that copies required files + into appropriate locations. If you can't run that script, you can extract + contents of translation packages into your squirrelmail directory. + + NOTE No.1: *-src.tar.gz, *-src.tar.bz2 and *-src.zip archives does not contain + compiled translation files. You will need to run compilelocales script + in order to get all gettext binary translations. + + NOTE No.2: You might need to restart your webserver before using translations. + If you can't do that, install your translations _before_ you use SquirrelMail.