Open-Xchange Community Edition Installer released

new script ??

another idea:

maybe it's possible to create a script without OX,
just for all the other needs to run OX sucessfull.
(As a kind of a "helper-script")

I don't know how others feel, but for me,
installing a fetchmail or a postfix maybe easy
but for the fine tuning (SSL, Sieve a.s.o.)
I lack some skills and if I look to the topics
in the installation thread of the last days,
I'm not alone.
Such a script could imho recuce the
trouble questions in the installation thread,
so our experts could do "right" work:
making a very good peace of software
even better....


greetings,

frosch

...This means a installation of the Open-Xchange Server will no longer require a build process at the server, it can be installed just like any other software. I really think this will take away a lot of problems caused by the installation process before. Therefor the installer had a enjoyable life, i had fun maintaining it but it will be obsolete as of today.

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your support so far, the script was very cool.
I think it's not so obsolet as you think, because the pure OX is done by the package
but all the other things (cyrus, postfix etc.) must be done too.

So it would be nice, if you could provide the script furthermore,
reduced of the OX installation it self (respective: with apt-getting of OX instead of compiling...).

I would love it ...

It was always fun to start your script, lean back and watch things working ;-)
As I'm used it so far, I'm now a little bit confused of all the other things to do...

greetings and thanks for your good work,

frosch

[tafkaz]

Thank you very much !!!

It worked like a charm...


Sascha

[Martin Heiland]

Migration Guide Installer (6.4.2) to package Version (6.5.0)

Quick Installguide für Open-Xchange 6.5.0 for Debian 4.0
Quick Installguide für Open-Xchange 6.5.0 for RHEL 5
Quick Installguide für Open-Xchange 6.5.0 for SLES 10
Quick Installguide für Open-Xchange 6.5.0 for Ubuntu 8.04
Quick Installguide für Open-Xchange 6.5.0 for Fedora 8
Quick Installguide für Open-Xchange 6.5.0 for OpenSuSE 11.0

Martin,

thank you for your quick response. I think I'll wait until you had time to check it.

Michael

[tafkaz]

great Martin
looking forward to your posts !
Cheers
Sascha

[Martin Heiland]

Hey Sascha,

the database with your existing data will be updated automatically when updating the software,
so there should be no problem with that. In fact a lot of configuration options have moved and
new options have been added, so i'd suggest to compare every configuration file after the up-
date and merge relevant parts. I'll report back what files are most critical on a default installation.

Greetings

[tafkaz]

cool.

A more detailed Howto upgrade the selfcompiled Version to Packages version would be lovely !
What exactly would i have to merge ?
surely not the complete /opt/open-xchange/etc/* ?
And will all the data in the filespool be usable afterwards...and mail, and contacts...

I know...lots of questions, but maybe you can help.

Thanx in advance
Sascha

[Martin Heiland]

Hi Michael,

updating a selfcompiled version to the packages could be done by saving the OX configuration
files (/opt/open-xchange/etc/*) to another place, installing the packages and merging the
configuration afterwards. Sadly the selfcompiled version does not have any version tracking
or package manager entries so that a installation by package requires those steps.
I did not yet tested this way to upgrade so please make sure everything has been backupped,
if i'll find time for checking the procedure i'll let you know.

Martin

Hi Martin,

it is great, that there is no need to compile the packages on the own server anymore.
But could you, or someone else, provide us a guide to "update" a script based installation to the new package based one?

Michael Schönbeck

[Martin Heiland]

Hi together,

today it has been officially announced so i'd like to point it out in this installer thread. Open-Xchange does now offer installation packages for multiple operating system platforms freely available. Those packages contain the full functionality of the Open-Xchange Server 6. Some features of the Express Edition are currently not contained yet, such as the Admin GUI or automatic user creation at different services. Please note that the packages available are currently in beta status, the version available by the installer (6.4) is still the stable one.

• Debian 4.0
• Ubuntu 6.06
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Fedora Core 8
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• openSuSE 10.2
• openSuSE 10.3
• Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

This means a installation of the Open-Xchange Server will no longer require a build process at the server, it can be installed just like any other software. I really think this will take away a lot of problems caused by the installation process before. Therefor the installer had a enjoyable life, i had fun maintaining it but it will be obsolete as of today.
Thanks for all the support you gave to make the installer better than i could ever imagine, special thanks also the openSuSE installer maintainers (Gertjan) for creating a great port.

If you encounter any problems by using this packages (especially installing issue) please report those bugs to make the software better http://bugs.open-xchange.com/

Martin Braun

more information:

http://www.open-xchange.com/wiki/index.php?title=CommunitySoftwareRepositories

http://www.open-xchange.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1439

I installed OX with the installer on debian, works great so far. However, there's the problem that spamd isn't configured for use with OX's virtual users. Does anyone have a working spamd configuration for that?

[Martin Heiland]

Hi Andres,

i've already tried to port that script to CentOS, RHEL and Fedora. Some parts are quite easy to port, but other critical stuff is too complicated. For example the required build utilities which are available on debian/suse are not available on CentOS, the Java Runtime and Development Kit seems to be only available through a special repository (jpackage or something). The startup scripts are also not compatible as far as i figured out.
For short - building a installer script based on CVS sources would require huge maintenance and would still not be such easy for the administrator like the current debian/suse scripts.

It has not yet been announced officially, but in near future Open-Xchange will provide a much more convenient and natural way to get the software up & running on different platforms than the debian one. So any effort in a port of the installer script would be obsolete shortly. Stay tuned!

Greetings
Martin

Hi, is it possible to port your script to centos 5.x? would you give us some guidance?

Thanks a lot!!!

Problem solved, i didnt do anything seems that my internet connection have some problem.
Thank you)