How to Install Group Office on Manjaro

Group Office is an open-source groupware suite designed to help organizations manage their daily tasks with ease. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Group Office on Manjaro.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure to meet the following requirements:

• A Manjaro system with user access with sudo permissions
• Apache or Nginx webserver installed
• PHP 7 or later installed
• MySQL or MariaDB installed

Step 1: Download Group Office

The first step is to download the Group Office package from the official website. You can download the latest version from this link: https://www.group-office.com/download.

$ wget https://group-office.io/releases/server/6.4.207/groupoffice-6.4.207.tar.gz

After the download is complete, extract the archive in the /var/www/html directory.

$ sudo tar -xvf groupoffice-6.4.207.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/

Step 2: Set Permissions

After unzipping the downloaded file, you need to adjust file permissions for the Group Office directory.

$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/groupoffice/
$ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/groupoffice/

Step 3: Create Database

You need to create a new database and a new user the database administration.

$ sudo mysql -u root -p 
> CREATE DATABASE groupoffice;
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON groupoffice.* TO 'groupofficeuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
> exit

Step 4: Configure Apache

Create a new virtual host configuration file for Group Office with the following commands:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/groupoffice.conf

and add the following contents:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/groupoffice/
    ServerName groupoffice.example.com
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    <Directory /var/www/html/groupoffice/>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Enable the new Virtual Host and restart the Apache service.

$ sudo a2ensite groupoffice.conf
$ sudo service apache2 restart

Step 5: Install Group Office

Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost/groupoffice/. The Group Office installer will start.

Follow the instructions to install Group Office. When asked for the database credentials, enter the details created in Step 3.

Once the installation is complete, you will see the Group Office login screen.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Group Office on Manjaro by downloading the Group Office package, setting file permissions, creating a new database, configuring Apache, and installing Group Office.

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