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Zarafa 6.04 / 6.20 on CentOS 5.2 with Plesk 8.6 Set-up guide

posted in Guides on September 18th, 2008

Part 4 - storing attachments outside the database:

  1. make a directory for your attachments by typing:
    mkdir /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/private/zarafa_attachments
  2. change to /usr/share/zarafa, like you normally do, e.g.:
    cd /usr/share/zarafa
  3. execute the DB-to-Filesystem script by typing:
    perl db-convert-attachments-to-files mysql-user mysql-pass mysql-db /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/private/zarafa_attachments
    * replace mysql-user, mysql-pass and mysql-db with the values you used for the installation
  4. optionally add the delete suffix to remove attachments from the database:
    perl db-convert-attachments-to-files mysql-user mysql-pass mysql-db /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/private/zarafa_attachments
    * replace mysql-user, mysql-pass and mysql-db with the values you used for the installation
  5. open /etc/zarafa/server.cfg with an editor like you normally do, e.g.:
    nano /etc/zarafa/server.cfg
  6. look for attachment_storage and enter files as a value
  7. look for attachment_path and enter: /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/private/zarafa_attachments/ as a value
  8. update the Zarafa server settings by starting zarafa-server with the following argument:
    zarafa-server --ignore-attachment-storage-conflict

 

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  1. Brian said, on October 4th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    This is an excellent tutorial. Two questions–what if I did the install with 6.2 instead of 6.04 then upgrade? Second, have you attempted to run this in multi-company mode to give more of your domains access to the installation? I’m thinking about trying to deploy this to multiple customers I have running.

    Brian

  2. Kerim Satirli said, on October 5th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    Thanks Brian.

    I gave 6.2 a try on my homeserver and the install was, basically, the same - the only difference being that the config files had a few more items in there (for multicompany support) and I also needed to update the key and alter my start-up scripts.

    I have not yet attempted to run Zarafa in multi-company mode, but I will give it a try soonish (within 2 weeks, I guess), I’ll post my experiences here.

  3. Bart said, on October 31st, 2008 at 7:58 am

    Hi,

    Great guide, however When it comes to the MAPI, I have a problem.

    I get the following error:

    Not Found: MAPI include files not found

    However, there is no mention in ur documents about this. How did you over come this problem since the mapi.so.0.0.0 is not compatible with PHP 5.2.6 (Yet, im using 5.1.6)

    Thanks
    B

  4. Kerim Satirli said, on October 31st, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    Hi Bart,

    the problem with mapi.so.0.0.0 can be solved by following Step 7 of the guide.

  5. Alex said, on October 31st, 2008 at 6:42 pm

    Hi Kerim,

    your how to inspired me to set up the Zarafa 6.20 from source on my Plesk 8.6 based on openSuSE 10.3.

    So far I am quite impressed, especially by the active sync component z-push adds to it. But as long as no real CalDAV implementation is there and I found out how to work on ldap for my vCards this is not going to replace mobile.me for me :-)

    But one question do I have - what did you do about IMAP and port 143? Do you still run imapd from Plesk ? In my case I would only move 5 email accounts (basically my family) towards zarafa when the time has come, but the other users on my server should stay on their original Plesk setup.

    Kind regars,
    Alex

  6. Kerim Satirli said, on November 1st, 2008 at 10:39 am

    Alex,

    thanks for your feedback, much appreciated!

    CalDAV will eventually come, of that I am sure, but for now, you are correct: mobileMe might be better suited for your needs.

    I personally only sync via ActiveSync, so Zarafa works perfectly for me, that and the fact that I’d rather host my own data as opposed to having it up in the cloud.

    That said, to answer your actual question: I do not use Zarafa’s gateway functions and keep email within Plesk.

    I do however, modify how Qmail handles emails. See here for more information.

  7. Bart said, on November 3rd, 2008 at 1:27 am

    Thanks Kerim,

    My problem was that Plesk had the domain name CHROOT’d so it was not able to use the MAPI files located in /usr/share/php/mapi/. To overcome this, I had to add the following file:

    /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf/vhost.conf

    Then add the following into the file:

    Options +FollowSymLinks
    php_admin_value open_basedir “/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs:/etc/zarafa/webaccess-ajax:/tmp:/usr/lib/php/modules:/usr/share/php/mapi/”

    Once the above was added all working.

    Hope that helps others.

    Cheers
    Bart

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