Group Office is a powerful and easy-to-use groupware and CRM solution. It helps businesses manage their contacts, tasks, appointments, and documents. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Group Office on FreeBSD latest.
Before we start, make sure that you have the following:
Before we start, it is recommended to update the system to its latest version. To do this, open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade
This will update the system to the latest version.
Group Office requires Apache, PHP, and MariaDB to function properly. To install these packages, run the following command:
sudo pkg install apache24
sudo pkg install php74 php74-mysqli php74-pdo php74-tokenizer php74-xmlrpc php74-xmlwriter php74-zip php74-zlib php74-curl php74-gd php74-json php74-mbstring php74-session php74-filter php74-hash
sudo pkg install mariadb103-server
sudo sysrc apache24_enable="YES"
sudo sysrc mysql_enable="YES"
The above commands will install the required packages and configure them to start on system boot.
By default, FreeBSD comes with a firewall. It is important to configure the firewall to allow access to the Apache web server. Run the following commands to allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
sudo sysrc firewall_enable="YES"
sudo sysrc firewall_type="open"
sudo sysrc firewall_rules="/etc/ipfw.rules"
echo 'add pass tcp from any to any 80 setup' | sudo tee -a /etc/ipfw.rules
echo 'add pass tcp from any to any 443 setup' | sudo tee -a /etc/ipfw.rules
Now, it's time to download and install Group Office. First, go to the official Group Office website (https://www.group-office.com/) and download the latest version of the software. Then, navigate to the directory where you have downloaded the file and run the following commands:
tar -xzvf groupoffice-x.x.x.tar.gz
sudo mv groupoffice /usr/local/www/apache24/data/
sudo chown -R www:www /usr/local/www/apache24/data/groupoffice
Replace x.x.x with the version number of the downloaded file.
Group Office requires a database to store data. We will use MariaDB for this purpose. To configure MariaDB, run the following command to secure the installation:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Then, create a new database and user for Group Office:
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE groupoffice;
CREATE USER 'groupoffice'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON groupoffice.* TO 'groupoffice'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Replace <password> with a strong password of your choice.
To configure Apache web server, create a new virtual host for Group Office:
sudo nano /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/groupoffice.conf
Add the following content:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/apache24/data/groupoffice
ServerName groupoffice.example.com
<Directory /usr/local/www/apache24/data/groupoffice>
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/groupoffice.example.com-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/groupoffice.example.com-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace admin@example.com with your email address and groupoffice.example.com with your domain name.
Restart Apache to apply the changes:
sudo service apache24 restart
You have successfully installed and configured Group Office on FreeBSD. You can now access Group Office by opening a web browser and navigating to http://<your-domain>/groupoffice. The default username and password for Group Office are admin and admin. It's recommended to change the password after the initial login.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install and configure Group Office on FreeBSD Latest. You can now start using Group Office to manage your contacts, tasks, appointments, and documents.
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