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How to Install RainLoop Webmail on CentOS 7

Last Updated: Fri, Jul 27, 2018
CentOS Email Linux Guides Server Apps System Admin

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.

Requirements

  • 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

Install PHP, necessary PHP extensions, MariaDB and Nginx

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

Install RainLoop

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.

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