INTRODUCTION
============
-This file describes the basic steps to install RoundCube Webmail on your
+This file describes the basic steps to install Roundcube Webmail on your
web server. For additional information, please also consult the project's
wiki page at http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki
* The Apache or Lighttpd Webserver
* .htaccess support allowing overrides for DirectoryIndex
-* PHP Version 5.2 or greater including
- - PCRE (perl compatible regular expression)
- - DOM (xml document object model)
+* PHP Version 5.2.1 or greater including
+ - PCRE, DOM, JSON, XML, Session, Sockets (required)
- Libiconv
- Multibyte String (mbstring)
- Mcrypt (supporting Triple DES)
+ - Fileinfo (optional)
- Database driver for either MySQL, Postgres or SQLite
-* php.ini options:
+* The PEAR framework with the following packages installed:
+ - MDB2 2.5.0 or newer
+ - Mail_Mime 1.8.1 or newer
+ - Net_SMTP 1.4.2 or newer
+ - Net_IDNA2 0.1.1 or newer
+ - Auth_SASL 1.0.3 or newer
+* php.ini options (see .htaccess file):
- error_reporting E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE (or lower)
- - memory_limit (increase as suitable to support large attachments)
+ - memory_limit > 16MB (increase as suitable to support large attachments)
- file_uploads enabled (for attachment upload features)
- session.auto_start disabled
- zend.ze1_compatibility_mode disabled
-* The PEAR framework with the following packages installed
- - MDB2 (2.4.1)
- - Mail_Mime (1.5.2)
- - Net_SMTP (1.2.11)
+ - suhosin.session.encrypt disabled
+ - mbstring.func_overload disabled
* PHP compiled with OpenSSL to connect to IMAPS and to use the spell checker
-* A MySQL or PostgreSQL database engine or the SQLite extension for PHP
+* A MySQL (4.0.8 or newer), PostgreSQL, MSSQL database engine
+ or the SQLite extension for PHP
* One of the above databases with permission to create tables
-* An SMTP server or PHP configured for mail delivery
+* An SMTP server (recommended) or PHP configured for mail delivery
INSTALLATION
are writable by the webserver
- /temp
- /logs
-3. Create a new database and a database user for RoundCube (see DATABASE SETUP)
+3. Create a new database and a database user for Roundcube (see DATABASE SETUP)
4. Point your browser to http://url-to-roundcube/installer/
-5. Follow the instructions of the install script (or see MANUAL CONFINGURATION)
+5. Follow the instructions of the install script (or see MANUAL CONFIGURATION)
6. After creating and testing the configuration, remove the installer directory
7. Done!
+CONFIGURATION HINTS
+===================
+
+Roundcube writes internal errors to the 'errors' log file located in the logs
+directory which can be configured in config/main.inc.php. If you want ordinary
+PHP errors to be logged there as well, enable the 'php_value error_log' line
+in the .htaccess file and set the path to the log file accordingly.
+
+By default the session_path 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 uncomment and configure the according line
+in the .htaccess file.
+
+
DATABASE SETUP
==============
+Note: Database for Roundcube must use UTF-8 character set.
+
* MySQL
-------
Setting up the mysql database can be done by creating an empty database,
recommended you replace this with a more secure password. Please keep in
mind: You need to specify this password later in 'config/db.inc.php'.
-Note 2: For MySQL version 4.1 and up, it's recommended to create the database for
-RoundCube with utf-8 charset.
-
* SQLite
--------
-Sqlite requires specifically php5 (sqlite in php4 currently doesn't
-work with roundcube), and you need sqlite 2 (preferably 2.8) to setup
-the sqlite db (sqlite 3.x also doesn't work at the moment). Here is
+You need sqlite 2 (preferably 2.8) to setup the sqlite db
+(sqlite 3.x also doesn't work at the moment). Here is
an example how you can setup the sqlite.db for roundcube:
# sqlite -init SQL/sqlite.initial.sql sqlite.db
+Loading resources from SQL/sqlite.initial.sql
+SQLite version 2.8.16
+Enter ".help" for instructions
+sqlite> .exit
+# chmod o+rw sqlite.db
Make sure your configuration points to the sqlite.db file 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
+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):
using that version you'll have to change ownership of the DB later.
+Database cleaning
+-----------------
+Do 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
====================
UPGRADING
=========
-If you already have a previous version of RoundCube installed,
+If you already have a previous version of Roundcube installed,
please refer to the instructions in UPGRADING guide.
+OPTIMISING
+==========
+
+There are two forms of optimisation here, compression and caching, both aimed
+at increasing an end user's experience using Roundcube Webmail. Compression
+allows the static web pages to be delivered with less bandwidth. The index.php
+of Roundcube Webmail already enables compression on its output. The settings
+below allow compression to occur for all static files. Caching sets HTTP
+response headers that enable a user's web client to understand what is static
+and how to cache it.
+
+The caching directives used are:
+ * Etags - sets at tag so the client can request is the page has changed
+ * Cache-control - defines the age of the page and that the page is 'public'
+ This enables clients to cache javascript files that don't have private
+ information between sessions even if using HTTPS. It also allows proxies
+ to share the same cached page between users.
+ * Expires - provides another hint to increase the lifetime of static pages.
+
+For more information refer to RFC 2616.
+
+Side effects:
+-------------
+These directives are designed for production use. If you are using this in
+a development environment you may get horribly confused if your webclient
+is caching stuff that you changed on the server. Disabling the expires
+parts below should save you some grief.
+
+If you are changing the skins, it is recommended that you copy content to
+a different directory apart from 'default'.
+
+Apache:
+-------
+To enable these features in apache the following modules need to be enabled:
+ * mod_deflate
+ * mod_expires
+ * mod_headers
+
+The optimisation is already included in the .htaccess file in the top
+directory of your installation.
+
+If you are using Apache version 2.2.9 and later, in the .htaccess file
+change the 'append' word to 'merge' for a more correct response. Keeping
+as 'append' shouldn't cause any problems though changing to merge will
+eliminate the possibility of duplicate 'public' headers in Cache-control.
+
+Lighttpd:
+---------
+With Lightty the addition of Expire: tags by mod_expire is incompatible with
+the addition of "Cache-control: public". Using Cache-control 'public' is
+used below as it is assumed to give a better caching result.
+
+Enable modules in server.modules:
+ "mod_setenv"
+ "mod_compress"
+
+Mod_compress is a server side cache of compressed files to improve its performance.
+
+$HTTP["host"] == "www.example.com" {
+
+ static-file.etags = "enable"
+ # http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Etag.use-mtimeDetails
+ etag.use-mtime = "enable"
+
+ # http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:ModSetEnv
+ $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/roundcubemail/(plugins|skins|program)" {
+ setenv.add-response-header = ( "Cache-Control" => "public, max-age=2592000")
+ }
+
+ # http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:ModCompress
+ # set compress.cache-dir to somewhere outside the docroot.
+ compress.cache-dir = var.statedir + "/cache/compress"
+
+ compress.filetype = ("text/plain", "text/html", "text/javascript", "text/css", "text/xml", "image/gif", "image/png")
+}
+
+
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