RainLoop is a simple, modern and fast web-based email client. RainLoop source code is hosted on GitHub. This guide will show you how to install RainLoop on a fresh CentOS 7 Vultr instance.
Nginx
PHP version 5.4 and above, as well as the following extensions:
cURL
iconv
json
libxml
dom
openssl
DateTime
PCRE
SPL
Optional PHP extension: PDO (MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite) (for contacts)
Check the CentOS version.
cat /etc/centos-release
# CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
Create a new non-root user account with sudo access and switch to it.
useradd -c "John Doe" johndoe && passwd johndoe
usermod -aG wheel johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe with your username.
Set up the timezone.
timedatectl list-timezones
sudo timedatectl set-timezone 'Region/City'
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo yum update -y
Install necessary packages for finishing this tutorial.
sudo yum install -y curl git wget vim unzip bash-completion
Disable SELinux.
sudo setenforce 0
Enable the EPEL repository.
sudo rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Setup the Webtatic YUM repo.
sudo rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm
Download and install PHP 7.0 and the required PHP extensions.
sudo yum install -y php72w php72w-cli php72w-fpm php72w-curl php72w-json php72w-mbstring php72w-mysql php72w-pgsql php72w-sqlite3 php72w-common php72w-xml
Check the version.
php -v
Start and enable php-fpm.
sudo systemctl start php-fpm.service
sudo systemctl enable php-fpm.service
Install MariaDB.
sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo
# Copy/paste this to the /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo file
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = https://yum.mariadb.org/10.2/centos7-amd64
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1
sudo yum install -y MariaDB-server MariaDB-client
Check the version.
mysql --version
Run the mysql_secure_installation script to improve the security of your MariaDB installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Log in to MariaDB as the root user.
mysql -u root -p
# Enter password:
Create a new MariaDB database and user, and remember the credentials.
CREATE DATABASE dbname;
CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL ON `dbname`.* TO 'username'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Install Nginx.
sudo yum install -y nginx
Check the version.
sudo nginx -v
Start and enable Nginx.
sudo systemctl start nginx.service
sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
Configure Nginx for RainLoop. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/rainloop.conf and add the following configuration.
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/rainloop;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
fastcgi_keep_conn on;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
location ^~ /data {
deny all;
}
}
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Create a document root.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/rainloop
Change ownership of the /var/www/rainloop directory to johndoe.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/rainloop
Download the latest release of RainLoop and unzip it.
cd /var/www/rainloop
wget http://www.rainloop.net/repository/webmail/rainloop-latest.zip
unzip rainloop-latest.zip -d /var/www/rainloop
rm rainloop-latest.zip
Change ownership of the /var/www/rainloop directory to nginx.
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/rainloop
Run sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf and set the user and group to nginx. Initially, it will be set to apache.
sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
# user = nginx
# group = nginx
Restart the php-fpm service.
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service
Open http://example.com/?admin in your favorite browser and login to configure RainLoop webmail. The default login name is admin and the password is 12345.