ViMbAdmin is a free and open-source web-based interface that provides mail administration services for mail servers. ViMbAdmin makes it easy to manage domains, mailboxes, and aliases for a mail server.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install ViMbAdmin on MXLinux Latest.
First, connect to your MXLinux VPS via SSH and update the system packages by running the following commands:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Install the required packages that are necessary for building and running ViMbAdmin by running the following command:
sudo apt install build-essential zip unzip php7.3-xml php7.3-mbstring php7.3-zip php7.3-mysql php7.3-imap libapache2-mod-php7.3
Login to MySQL shell with the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database for ViMbAdmin using the following command:
CREATE DATABASE vimbadmin;
After creating the database, create a new user and grant all privileges on the database using the following commands:
CREATE USER 'vimbadmin_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '[strong_password]';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON vimbadmin.* TO 'vimbadmin_user'@'localhost';
Create a new Apache virtual host file for ViMbAdmin using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/vimbadmin.conf
Add the following content to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mail.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vimbadmin/public
<Directory /var/www/vimbadmin/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/vimbadmin-error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/vimbadmin-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save and close the file.
Extract the downloaded ViMbAdmin package to the document root directory of Apache (e.g. /var/www/vimbadmin/) using the following command:
sudo unzip vimbadmin-3.1.20.zip -d /var/www/vimbadmin/
Once the package is extracted, rename the ViMbAdmin configuration file by running the following command:
sudo mv /var/www/vimbadmin/application/configs/application.ini.dist /var/www/vimbadmin/application/configs/application.ini
Edit the configuration file and replace the MySQL database details which were created earlier.
sudo nano /var/www/vimbadmin/application/configs/application.ini
Complete the following fields with your database details:
resources.db.adapter = "pdo_mysql"
resources.db.params.host = "localhost"
resources.db.params.username = "vimbadmin_user"
resources.db.params.password = "[strong_password]"
resources.db.params.dbname = "vimbadmin"
Verify that the log and tmp directories and are writable by Apache by running the following commands:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/vimbadmin/log sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/vimbadmin/tmp
#### 6. Enable ViMbAdmin
Enable the virtual host for ViMbAdmin with the following command:
sudo a2ensite vimbadmin.conf
Restart the Apache server to load the new configurations with the following command:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
## Conclusion
ViMbAdmin is now installed on your MXLinux system. You can now access the ViMbAdmin web interface by navigating to mail.mydomain.com in your web browser.
That's it! You have successfully installed ViMbAdmin on your MXLinux server.
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