This tutorial is used to install iRedAdmin from scratch, running under Apache web server.
If you already have iRedAdmin open source edition or old iRedAdmin-Pro release installed, you can simply migrate it to the latest iRedAdmin by follow our short tutorial: Migrate or upgrade iRedAdmin.
iRedMail will install all required packages for you, you don't need to install them manually.
The latest iRedMail release. Download the latest iRedMail. NOTE: You must have iRedMail installed on server first.
Apache
2.2+. Web server.
mod_wsgi
2.1+. Apache module used to host Python application which supports the Python WSGI interface.Python
2.4+, core programming language. Warning: Python 3.x is not supported yet.
web.py
, 0.32+. A python-powered web framework.MySQLdb
: A thread-compatible interface to the popular MySQL database server that provides the Python database API. Required if you store mail accounts in OpenLDAP, MySQL or MariaDB.Python-LDAP
2.3.7+: An object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. Required if you store mail accounts in OpenLDAP.Python-psycopg2
: interface to the PostgreSQL database server from Python programs. Required if you store mail accounts in PostgreSQL.Download iRedAdmin open source edition here. If you're trying to install iRedAdmin-Pro, please contact us to get download link of iRedAdmin-Pro.
Copy iRedAdmin to /usr/share/apache2/
, set correct file permissions, and create symbol link.
# tar xjf iRedAdmin-x.y.z.tar.bz2 -C /usr/share/apache2/
# cd /usr/share/apache2/
# chown -R iredadmin:iredadmin iRedAdmin-x.y.z
# chmod -R 0555 iRedAdmin-x.y.z
# ln -s iRedAdmin-x.y.z iredadmin
Add apache configure file: /etc/apache2/conf.d/iredadmin.conf
.
Note: If you're running Ubuntu 14.04 or later releases, it's
/etc/apache2/conf-available/iredadmin.conf
. After you added this file,
enable it with command a2enconf iredadmin
.
WSGISocketPrefix /var/run/wsgi
WSGIDaemonProcess iredadmin user=iredadmin threads=15
WSGIProcessGroup iredadmin
AddType text/html .py
<Directory /usr/share/apache2/iredadmin/>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default-ssl
, make iredadmin accessible via HTTPS.
Add below lines before </VirtualHost>
:WSGIScriptAlias /iredadmin /usr/share/apache2/iredadmin/iredadmin.py/
Alias /iredadmin/static /usr/share/apache2/iredadmin/static/
# a2enmod wsgi
# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
iredadmin
.# mysql -uroot -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE iredadmin DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
mysql> USE iredadmin;
mysql> SOURCE /usr/share/apache2/iredadmin/docs/samples/iredadmin.sql;
# mysql -uroot -p
mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON iredadmin.* TO iredadmin@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'secret_passwd';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Copy sample config file, and make it not world-writeable.
# cd /usr/share/apache2/iredadmin/
# cp settings.py.[backend].sample settings.py
# chown iredadmin:iredadmin settings.py
# chmod 0400 settings.py
Update settings.py with correct values. Please read settings.py
for more
information, it's self-documented.
Restart apache web server.
# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Open your web browser to access iRedAdmin: httpS://your_server_ip_address/iredadmin/
Make sure you use HTTPS://
instead of HTTP://
.
If iRedAdmin doesn't work as expected, you can simplily set DEBUG = True
in
settings.py
, restart apache web server, use your favourite web browser to
access it again, create a new forum topic and
paste error message in your forum topic.