guide for centos 6.x

[JC Putter]

Hi Guys,

I created a guide as i was installing mailpiler on CentOS.

Janos,  you are welcome to put this in tarball or wiki if its good enough...

if anyone reading it have suggestions or if i completely missed stuff
please let me know.

Thanks

Mailpiler Mailpiler provides a secure and safe solution for email archiving, you can download a copy of the OVA for quick and easy deployments or for testing, however I am more of a RHEL guy so it's natural for me to install it on RHEL/CentOS. Preparing the box Install EPEL Repository

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
yum install -y openssl httpd openssl-devel tre-devel mysql-server php-mysql memcached catdoc libpst libzip tre sysstat poppler-utils unrtf mysql-devel
service mysqld start && chkconfig mysqld on
mysqladmin -u root password securepass
wget https://bitbucket.org/jsuto/piler/downloads/xlhtml-0.5-sj-mod.tar.gz
tar xfvz xlhtml-0.5-sj-mod.tar.gz
cd xlhtml-0.5-sj-mod
./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
make && make install
wget http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.0.9-1.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall sphinx-2.0.9-1.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
groupadd piler
useradd -g piler -s /bin/sh -d /var/piler piler
usermod -L piler
wget https://bitbucket.org/jsuto/piler/downloads/piler-0.1.23.tar.gz
tar xfvz piler-0.1.23.tar.gz
cd piler-0.1.23
./configure --localstatedir=/var
make && make install
make postinstall
This is the postinstall utility for piler
It should be run only at the first install. DO NOT run on an existing piler installation!


Continue? [Y/N] [N] y


Please enter the path of your documentroot [/var/www/localhost] /var/www/html/mailpiler

Please enter the webserver groupname [apache]

Please enter mysql hostname [localhost]

Please enter mysql database [piler]

Please enter mysql user name [piler]

Please enter mysql password for piler []

Please enter mysql root password []
mysql connection successful


Please enter the path of sphinx.conf [/etc/sphinx.conf] /etc/sphinx/sphinx.conf

Please enter smtp relay [] smtp.example.com

Please enter smtp relay port [25]

echo /usr/local/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/piler.conf
ldconfig
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailpiler.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mailarchiver.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mailpiler
<Directory /var/www/html/mailpiler>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ServerAdmin webmas...@example.com
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/mailarchiver-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/mailarchiver-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

service httpd start && chkconfig httpd on
vi /usr/local/etc/piler.conf
;
; mysql stuff
;

mysqlhost=127.0.0.1
mysqlport=3306
mysqlsocket=/tmp/mysql.sock
mysqluser=piler
mysqlpwd=securepass
mysqldb=piler
mysql_connect_timeout=2

su piler
indexer --all
cd piler-0.1.23/init.d
mv rc.piler mailpiler
vi mailpiler
# chkconfig: 235 98 40
# description: startup script for mailpiler
cp mailpiler /etc/init.d/
chmod +x /etc/init.d/mailpiler
chkconfig --add mailpiler && chkconfig mailpiler on
vi rc.searchd
# chkconfig: 235 97 42
# description: startup script for sphinx
start() {
        echo "starting searchd . . ."
        su piler -c '/usr/bin/searchd'
}

chmod +x /etc/init.d/searchd
chkconfig --add searchd && chkconfig searchd on
vi /var/www/html/mailpiler/config-site.php
$config['SITE_URL'] = 'http://mailarchiver.example.com/';
service mailpiler start && service searchd start

Install RPMforge Repository Install required packages Setup MySQL Configure your root password for MySQL Download and install xlhtml Extract the package Install Sphinx Create a user for piler Download and Install Mailpiler Extract the package Compile and install This will launch a script to configure piler, supply your own documentroot path and credentials Register the liberary Setup Apache Virtual Host Configure Mailpiler SQL Setting Initialise search indexes Setup Mailpiler startup script Change init script to work with chkconfig Add the following just below the shebang Copy the init script in the correct location Make it executable Add the service to chkconfig and set it to startup at boot Setup Sphinx init script Mailpiler supplies it own init script that starts sphinx however since we install sphinx from a rpm the binary executable for sphinx is located at /usr/bin/ and not /usr/local/bin as stated in the init script. Also change the section as below Copy rc.searchd /etc/init.d/searchd Finally we need to configure so settings for Mailpiler This is important as mailpiler uses this url to redirect requests. This will always match your virtual host server name. You can now access http://mailarchiver.exameple.com Default credentials Username: admin@local Password: pilerrocks