Install latest version of Roundcube (Webmail) on CentOS 7

Roundcube is a web browser based mail client & also known as webmail. It provides a GUI ( Graphical User Interface ) where end users can check their mails, can create & manage folders, can use address book to search email ids and lot of other webmail features.

To install roundcube on CentOS 7 followings are the prerequisite that should be installed.

  • PHP
  • Database ( MariaDB or MySQL )
  • Web Server ( Apache )
  • Any MTA – Postfix , Sendmail & Qmail

In My Case i have already installed Postfix with dovecot on CentOS 7 with

  • Domain name = nsitmail.com
  • Hostname = tec.nsitmail.com

Follow below Steps to install & configure latest version of Roundcube :

Step:1 Install PHP , Database & Apache using below command :

[root@tec ~]# yum install httpd php php-common php-json php-xml php-mbstring php-imap php-pear-DB php-mysql mysql mariadb-server

Once the above package list is installed , set the time zone value in PHP .

root@tec ~]# vi /etc/php.ini
date.timezone = Asia/Kolkata

Save & exit the file

Step:2 Create & Configure Roundcube Database

Let us first set the Initial settings & root password of Mariadb Server :

[root@tec ~]# systemctl start mariadb
[root@tec ~]# systemctl enable mariadb
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mariadb.service'
[root@tec ~]#
[root@tec ~]# mysql_secure_installation

Above Command “mysql_secure_installation” will allow us to set root password , remove anonymous users , disable remote root login and will remove test database.

Now Create database for Roundube and grant all the permissions to the database

create-database-roundcube

Step:3 Download tar file of Roundcube

Download latest version of Roundcube tar file either from their official site “https://roundcube.net/download/” or we can use below wget command.

[root@tec ~]# wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/roundcubemail/roundcubemail/1.1.3/roundcubemail-1.1.3-complete.tar.gz

Untar the downloaded file in your web server document root.

[root@tec ~]# tar -zxpvf roundcubemail-1.1.3-complete.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/

Rename the extracted file as Roundcube and set the required permissions

[root@tec html]# mv roundcubemail-1.1.3 roundcube
[root@tec html]# chown apache:apache roundcube
[root@tec html]#

Start the Apache service

[root@tec html]# systemctl start httpd
[root@tec html]# systemctl enable httpd
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/httpd.service'
[root@tec html]#

Step:4 Start Roundcube installation using web browser installer.

To start the installation of Rouncube , access the below url in the web browser

http://tec.nsitmail.com/roundcube/installer

Roundcube-Webmail-Installer-page

click on Next…

Define the Database, Authentication Mechanism, SMTP & IMAP setting in this step. When We click on Create Config option it will ask us to Copy or download the configuration and save it as config.inc.php within the /var/www/html/roundcube/config/ directory of your Roundcube installation.

In my case i am using http based authentication mechanism , so i create one user on my Linux box and set its password using htpasswd command .

[root@tec ~]# htpasswd -c /home/linuxtechi/.htpasswd linuxtechi
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user linuxtechi
[root@tec ~]#

Roundcube-config-php-file

 

Roundcube-test-config-pafe

Remove the installer directory from your web server document root ( /var/www/html/roundcube )

[root@tec ~]# cd /var/www/html/roundcube/
[root@tec roundcube]# rm -rf installer
[root@tec roundcube]#

Step:5 Now access your account using Roundcube

Open the url in the browser “http://tec.nsitmail.com/roundcube/” , use the credentials that we set using htpasswd command.

Roundcube-Webmail-login-page

Roundcube-inbox

Roundcube installation is completed, Now explore it and enjoy.

12 thoughts on “Install latest version of Roundcube (Webmail) on CentOS 7”

  1. Roundcube 1.1.3 is already included in EPEL so why not just install it from there? That makes it much easier manage updates as they are released.

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  2. How can i configure password plugin.

    I have completed the following configuration
    1) postfix
    2) mariadb
    3) dovecot
    4) roundcube

    Next i want to configure roundcube password plugin.
    Cloud please help me for that

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  3. error while grant all privileages

    MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON webmail.* TO roundcube@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ’Webmail@123#’;
    -> ;
    ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near ‘’Webmail@123’ at line 1
    MariaDB [(none)]>

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    • Yes, You can use Roundcube to send emails to gmail & yahoo etc but for that you need to configure MTA (Postfix & Sendmail) and update the MTA settings in your roundcube.

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  4. i need to know how to initially login to roundcubemail i don’t know the username password, please help me to findout username and password

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  5. Anyone seen this before??
    I already changed my owner and group ownerships to apache
    /var/www/html/roundcube/temp/: NOT OK(not writeable for the webserver)
    /var/www/html/roundcube/logs/: NOT OK(not writeable for the webserver)

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