ViMbAdmin is a web-based virtual mail domain administration tool that allows you to manage domains, mailboxes, and aliases for a postfix mail server. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install ViMbAdmin on Fedora Server Latest.
Before you start, make sure that you have the following requirements:
First, you need to install the required packages for ViMbAdmin. Use the following command to install them:
sudo dnf install -y unzip httpd mariadb mariadb-server php php-mysqlnd php-mbstring php-pear php-fpm
Once the packages are installed, you need to configure MariaDB by running the following command:
sudo systemctl start mariadb
sudo systemctl enable mariadb
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Enter a root password for the MariaDB server and answer the questions asked by the script.
Next, you need to create a database and user for ViMbAdmin. Here are the steps:
Log in to the MariaDB shell as the root user:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database called vimbadmin:
CREATE DATABASE vimbadmin;
Create a new user called vimbadminuser:
CREATE USER 'vimbadminuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password_here';
Grant privileges to the new user on the vimbadmin database:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON vimbadmin.* TO 'vimbadminuser'@'localhost';
Flush the privileges and exit the MariaDB shell:
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Now, you can download and install ViMbAdmin. Here are the steps:
Navigate to the webroot directory (/var/www/html/ for Apache or /usr/share/nginx/html/ for Nginx):
cd /var/www/html/
Download the latest version of ViMbAdmin from the official website:
sudo wget https://github.com/opensolutions/ViMbAdmin/archive/master.zip -O vimbadmin.zip
Extract the downloaded file:
sudo unzip vimbadmin.zip
sudo mv ViMbAdmin-master vimbadmin
Set the ownership and permissions:
sudo chown -R apache:apache vimbadmin/
sudo chmod -R 755 vimbadmin/
Next, you need to configure ViMbAdmin by creating a config.local.php file. Here are the steps:
Copy the config.php file:
cd vimbadmin/
cp config.php config.local.php
Edit the config.local.php file:
sudo nano config.local.php
Set the database details:
$CONF['configured'] = true;
$CONF['database_type'] = 'mysqli';
$CONF['database_host'] = 'localhost';
$CONF['database_user'] = 'vimbadminuser';
$CONF['database_password'] = 'your_password_here';
$CONF['database_name'] = 'vimbadmin';
Change the encryption key:
$CONF['encrypt'] = 'your_encryption_key_here';
Save and exit the file.
Finally, you need to configure your web server to serve the ViMbAdmin files. Here are the steps:
Create a new virtual host file:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/vimbadmin.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your_domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/vimbadmin/public
<Directory /var/www/html/vimbadmin/public>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Save and exit the file.
Restart Apache:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
Create a new server block file:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/vimbadmin.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name your_domain.com;
root /usr/share/nginx/html/vimbadmin/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Save and exit the file.
Restart Nginx:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
You can now access ViMbAdmin by visiting http://your_domain.com/ in your web browser. Log in with the default username admin and password adminadmin. You should change the default password after logging in.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed ViMbAdmin on your Fedora Server Latest instance. You can now use ViMbAdmin to manage your postfix mail server.
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