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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 iRedMail yum repository configured: /etc/yum.repos.d/iRedMail.repo.

[iRedMail]
name=iRedMail
baseurl=http://iredmail.org/yum/rpms/5/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
priority=1

• Install necessary packages.

# ---- For i386 ----
# yum install python-webpy python-jinja2 MySQL-python mod_wsgi

# ---- For x86_64 ----
# yum install MySQL-python.x86_64 python-webpy.noarch python-jinja2.x86_64 mod_wsgi.x86_64

Download iRedAdmin and configure Apache web server

Create necessary MySQL database and grant privileges

Configure iRedAdmin

Troubleshooting