roundcubemail/docs/INSTALL.md

INTRODUCTION

This file describes the basic steps to install Roundcube Webmail on your web server. For additional information, please consult the wiki.

REQUIREMENTS

• An IMAP, HTTP and SMTP server
• .htaccess support allowing overrides for DirectoryIndex
• PHP Version 8.1 or greater including:
  • PCRE, DOM, JSON, Session, Sockets, OpenSSL, Mbstring, Filter, Ctype, Intl (required)
  • PHP PDO with driver for either MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite (required)
  • Iconv, Zip, Fileinfo, Exif (recommended)
  • LDAP for LDAP addressbook support (optional)
  • GD, Imagick, XMLWriter (optional: thumbnails generation, QR-code)
• PEAR and PEAR packages distributed with Roundcube or external. See composer.json for the list of required packages.
• php.ini options:
  • memory_limit > 16MB
  • file_uploads enabled (for uploading attachments and import files)
  • session.auto_start disabled
  • suhosin.session.encrypt disabled
  • mbstring.func_overload disabled
  • pcre.backtrack_limit >= 100000
• A MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite v3 support in PHP - with permission to create tables
• Composer installed either locally or globally (getcomposer.org)

INSTALLATION

1. Decompress and put this folder somewhere inside your server's filesystem. Note: Make sure files have proper owner/group for your setup. If you use tar command --no-same-owner option might be helpful.
2. In case you don't use the so-called "complete" release package, you have to install PHP- and JavaScript-dependencies, as well as build some files by running make -B build.
   • If you want to use LDAP address books, enable the LDAP libraries in your composer.json file by moving the items from "suggest" to the "require" section (remove the explanation texts after the version!), and afterwards run make -B composer-update.
3. Make sure that the following directories (and the files within) are writable by the webserver
   • /temp
   • /logs
4. Create a new database and a database user for Roundcube (see DATABASE SETUP)
5. Configure your HTTP server and point it to Roundcube's public_html directory. This is the document root.
6. Point your browser to http://url-to-roundcube/installer.php.
7. Follow the instructions of the install script (or see MANUAL CONFIGURATION).
8. Check KNOWN ISSUES section of this file

CONFIGURATION HINTS

IMPORTANT! Read all comments in defaults.inc.php, understand them and configure your installation to be not surprised by default behaviour.

Roundcube writes internal errors to the errors.log log file located in the logs directory which can be configured in config/config.inc.php. If you want ordinary PHP errors to be logged there as well, set error_log in php.ini or .htaccess file. Examine the log_driver config value for other options.

Roundcube forces display_errors=Off and log_errors=On.

By default the session cookie settings of PHP are not modified by Roundcube. However if you want to limit the session cookies to the directory where Roundcube resides you can set session.cookie_path in the php.ini or .htaccess file.

More about PHP settings.

DATABASE SETUP

Note: Database for Roundcube must use UTF-8 character set.

Note: See defaults.inc.php file for examples of DSN configuration.

MySQL

Setting up the mysql database can be done by creating an empty database, importing the table layout and granting the proper permissions to the roundcube user. Here is an example of that procedure:

> CREATE DATABASE roundcubemail CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
> CREATE USER roundcube@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roundcubemail.* TO roundcube@localhost;
> quit

Note 1: 'password' is the master password for the roundcube user. It is strongly recommended you replace this with a more secure password. Please keep in mind that you must specify this password later in config/config.inc.php.

Note 2: When using MySQL < 5.7.7 or MariaDB < 10.2.2 it is required to configure the database engine with:

innodb_large_prefix=1
innodb_file_per_table=1
innodb_file_format=Barracuda

Now you can run the Installer or configure the database access options in config/config.inc.php and run: ./bin/initdb.sh --dir=SQL.

SQLite

Versions of sqlite database engine older than 3.6.19 aren't supported. Database file and structure is created automatically by Roundcube. Make sure your configuration points to some file location and that the webserver can write to the file and the directory containing the file.

PostgreSQL

To use Roundcube with PostgreSQL support you have to follow these simple steps, which have to be done as the postgres system user (or which ever is the database superuser):

$ createuser -P roundcube
$ createdb -O roundcube -E UNICODE roundcubemail

Note: in some system configurations you might need to add -U postgres to createuser and createdb commands.

Now you can run the Installer or configure the database access options in config/config.inc.php and run: ./bin/initdb.sh --dir=SQL.

Database cleaning

To keep your database slick and clean we recommend to periodically execute ./bin/cleandb.sh which finally removes all records that are marked as deleted. Best solution is to install a cronjob running this script daily.

MANUAL CONFIGURATION

First of all, copy the sample configuration file config/config.inc.php.sample to config/config.inc.php and make the necessary adjustments according to your environment and your needs. More configuration options can be copied from the config/defaults.inc.php file into your local config.inc.php file as needed. Read the comments above the individual configuration options to find out what they do or read the installation wiki for even more guidance.

The maximum size of email attachments and other file uploads is controlled by PHP settings: upload_max_filesize and post_max_size. Read more about PHP settings.

CONTENT-SECURITY-POLICY

If you use a Content-Security-Policy, please note that Roundcube requires the script-src parameter to include 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'. No external sources are required (by default).

UPGRADING

If you already have a previous version of Roundcube installed, please refer to the instructions in UPGRADING.md guide.

OPTIMISING

Roundcube can be further optimized by using HTTP compression and caching. HTTP server setup is out of scope for this manual. (TODO: wiki page).

KNOWN ISSUES

Installations with uw-imap server should set imap_disabled_caps = array('ESEARCH') in main configuration file. ESEARCH implementation in this server is broken (#1489184).

PHP validates the ssl certificates by default. It means that if IMAP/SMTP certificates are self-signed or use wrong host name you'll get connection errors. A solution in such cases is to set imap_conn_options, smtp_conn_options and managesieve_conn_options in a way described in config/defaults.inc.php.

If you have problems with temp files or non-working logs make sure /temp and /logs folders are writeable to the user used by http server. Access to them may also be blocked by SELINUX. Here's some sample commands for SELINUX:

$ semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/path_to_roundcube/logs(/.*)?"
$ semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/path_to_roundcube/temp(/.*)?"
$ restorecon -Rv /path_to_roundcube/