Group Office is a web-based groupware application that offers email, calendars, contacts, tasks, project management, file sharing, and much more. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Group Office on MXLinux Latest using Apache and MySQL.
Before we begin, make sure that you have:
First, update your system packages:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Then, install the required dependencies for Group Office:
sudo apt install apache2 php php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-intl php-ldap php-mbstring php-xmlrpc php-zip php-bcmath mysql-server phpmyadmin
During the installation, you will be asked to set a password for the MySQL root user.
Log in to your MySQL server:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter the MySQL root user password you set during the MySQL installation.
Create a new database and a new user with full privileges to the database:
CREATE DATABASE groupoffice;
CREATE USER 'go_admin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON groupoffice.* TO 'go_admin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
Remember to replace password with a strong password.
Download the latest version of Group Office from their official website:
wget https://download.group-office.com/groupoffice-latest.zip -O groupoffice.zip
Extract the downloaded ZIP file to the web server root directory:
sudo unzip groupoffice.zip -d /var/www/html/
Rename the extracted folder to a more readable name, like groupoffice:
sudo mv /var/www/html/groupoffice-* /var/www/html/groupoffice
Set the permissions of the Group Office directory to the Apache user:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/groupoffice/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/groupoffice/
Create a new virtual host configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/groupoffice.conf
Paste the following configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your_server_name_or_ip
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/groupoffice
<Directory /var/www/html/groupoffice>
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/groupoffice_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/groupoffice_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Make sure to replace your_server_name_or_ip with your server name or IP address.
Enable the new virtual host and restart Apache:
sudo a2ensite groupoffice
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Open your web browser and navigate to http://your_server_name_or_ip/groupoffice. You should see the Group Office installation page.
Follow the installation wizard and provide the required information, including the database details we created in Step 2.
Finally, set up a cron job to execute the Group Office scheduler regularly:
sudo nano /etc/crontab
Add the following line at the end of the file:
*/1 * * * * www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/groupoffice/GO.php /singleserver/cron/run
Save the file and exit.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Group Office on MXLinux Latest.
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