How to install eGroupware in Ubuntu
How to install eGroupware in Ubuntu
eGroupware is free and open source groupware software used for businesses from small to enterprise level. Its primary functions allow users to manage contacts, appointments, projects and to-do lists. eGroupware runs on an Ubuntu base system, requires a webserver, a database server, a mail server etc.
Before installing eGroupware, you need to have lamp server installed in your system.Next,install some php modules.
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# apt-get install php-pear tnef php5 php5-{gd,imap,mysql,ldap}
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
..
..
Setting up tnef (1.4.9-1) ...
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php5 (5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.20) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
Enable PHP-IMAP extension
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# php5enmod imap
Restart the apache web server
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# service apache2 restart
* Restarting web server apache2
Install jpgraph which is another eGroupware dependency package.
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# wget " http://jpgraph.net/download/download.php?p=5" -O /tmp/jpgraph.tar.gz
--2017-01-05 06:16:42-- http://jpgraph.net/download/download.php?p=5
Resolving jpgraph.net (jpgraph.net)... 39.110.227.66
..
..
2017-01-05 06:23:22 (32.5 KB/s) - ‘ /tmp/jpgraph.tar.gz’ saved [13286001]
Now, extract the jpgraph tar file and then move the jpgraph file and select the directory.
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# tar zxf /tmp/jpgraph.tar.gz &ndash c /var/ww/html root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# mv /var/www/html/jpgraph* /var/www/html/jpgraph
Download and install eGroupware.
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# cd /var/www/html/
Download the package from the following link.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware/files/
root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html #mv /home/user1/Downloads/14.3.20160525.zip /var/www/html/
Extract the package.
root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html# unzip 14.3.20160525.zip inflating: EGroupware-egroupware-79426c6/timesheet/templates/pixelegg/app.less creating: EGroupware-egroupware-79426c6/timesheet/templates/pixelegg/images/ .. .. .. inflating: EGroupware-egroupware-79426c6/timesheet/templates/pixelegg/images/navbar.png inflating: EGroupware-egroupware-79426c6/timesheet/templates/pixelegg/images/navbar.svg inflating: EGroupware-egroupware-79426c6/webdav.php root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html# mv EGroupware-egroupware-79426c6 egroupware
Then set-up ownership to /var/www/html/egroupware directory.
root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html# chown -R www-data: egroupware
Edit the php.ini file and add your time-zone.
root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html# nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
Create database for your eGroupware.
root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html# mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with or g. Your MySQL connection id is 48 Server version: 5.5.53-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 (Ubuntu) Copyright (c) 2000, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type ' help ' or ' h' for help. Type ' c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> create database egroupware Query OK, 1 row affected (0.09 sec) mysql> grant all on egroupware.* to egroupware@localhost identified by ' password' Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.06 sec) mysql> flush privileges Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec) mysql> exit Bye
Restart the apache web server
root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html# service apache2 restart
* Restarting web server apache2 AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server' s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the ' ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message [ OK ]
Open the web browser and navigate to http://192.168.5.238/egroupware Installer page appears.
Installation process starts. Now select continue to header admin
eGroupware setup is done. Enter db details,header password,configuration password
Open the header.inc.php file in the terminal.
root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html/egroupware# nano header.inc.php
Copy the header.inc.php file contents.
eGroupware login
# apt-get install php-pear tnef php5 php5-{gd,imap,mysql,ldap}
# php5enmod imap