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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 Fedora 28 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
Check the Fedora version.
cat /etc/fedora-release
# Fedora release 28 (Twenty Eight)
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 dnf check-upgrade || sudo dnf upgrade -y
Install necessary packages.
sudo dnf install -y curl wget vim unzip bash-completion
For simplicity, disable SELinux and Firewall.
sudo setenforce 0 ; sudo systemctl stop firewalld ; sudo systemctl disable firewalld
Download and install PHP and the required PHP extensions.
sudo dnf install -y php-cli php-fpm php-curl php-json php-mbstring php-mysqlnd php-pgsql php-sqlite3 php-common php-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 dnf install -y mariadb-server
Check the version.
mysql --version
Start and enable MariaDB.
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
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;
GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT
Install Nginx.
sudo dnf install -y nginx
Check the version.
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 unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
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. After the first login, you should change the default login credentials.