From iRedMail

System requirements

• Apache, 2.2+. Web server. Already shipped within RHEL/CentOS 5.x.
  • mod_wsgi 2.1+. Apache module used to host Python application which supports the Python WSGI interface.
• Python 2.4+, core programming language. Already shipped within RHEL/CentOS 5.x. 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.

Add new system account: iredadmin

We will make iRedAdmin run with Apache web server, but as non-apache, low privilege user: iredadmin.

# useradd -s /sbin/nologin -m -d /home/iredadmin iredadmin 

Install necessary packages

• Make sure you have OpenSuSE package repository configured: /etc/zypp/repos.d/repo-oss.repo.

[repo-oss]
name=openSUSE-11.3-Oss
enabled=1
... # <- Skip other lines here

• Add iRedMail zypper repository for Apache modules: /etc/zypp/repos.d/iRedMail.repo.

[iRedMail]
name=iRedMail
baseurl=http://iredmail.org/yum/opensuse/11.3/
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
path=/
type=rpm-md
keeppackages=0
gpgcheck=0

• Install necessary packages.

# zypper refresh
# zypper install apache2-mod_wsgi python-jinja2 python-ldap python-mysql python-setuptools
# a2enmod wsgi
# easy_install web.py DBUtils

Download iRedAdmin and configure Apache web server

Create necessary MySQL database and grant privileges

Configure iRedAdmin

Troubleshooting