Roundcube Webmail Cookbook

A Chef cookbook for Roundcube Webmail, a PHP-based webmail application.

Upstream:
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail
- http://roundcube.net/
- http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki

Prerequisites

Database Setup

This cookbook purposely does not provide any functionality to setup and configure the database component of Roundcube. It is recommended that a different host is used as the database server.

Create a database and import the initial SQl, see http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Howto_Install#DatabaseConfiguration.

MySQL Quick Setup

Grant privileges

GRANT ALL ON *.* to roundcube@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 's3cure_as';

Or, all hosts:

GRANT ALL ON *.* to roundcube@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 's3cure_as';


Requirements

Supported Platforms

• Debian/Ubuntu

Contribution for other platforms welcome (submit a pull request).

Attributes

• node['roundcube']['version'] - Roundcube Version string
• node['roundcube']['download_url'] - URL to fetch the Roundcube tarball from
• node['roundcube']['download_checksum'] - The checksum of the Roundcube tarball
• node['roundcube']['install_dir'] - The destination directory to extract Roundcube to (minus the trailing /roundcube)
• node['roundcube']['default_host'] - The IMAP server host for Roundcube to interface
• node['roundcube']['support_url'] - The support URL to display for the Roundcube service
• node['roundcube']['product_name'] - The product name to display for the Roundcube service
• node['roundcube']['skin'] - The name of the skin to use for Roundcube's appearance
• node['roundcube']['listen_port'] - The listen port to configure with Roundcube's web server
• node['roundcube']['server_name'] - The server_name to configure with Roundcube's web server
• node['roundcube']['database']['user'] - Username to grant access privileges for database
• node['roundcube']['database']['password'] - Database password for the roundcube database user
• node['roundcube']['database']['schema'] - Name of the Roundcube database
• node['roundcube']['smtp']['server'] - The hostname or IP of the SMTP server for Roundcube to interface with for sending mails
• node['roundcube']['smtp']['port'] - The port of the SMTP server for sending mails
• node['roundcube']['smtp']['user'] = The SMTP username
• node['roundcube']['smtp']['password'] = The SMTP password

Recipes

roundcube::default

The default recipe will update the apt package list initially, then install PHP & MySQL client and lastly install and configure Roundcube.

roundcube::install

Installs Roundcube as defined by node attributes using ark.

roundcube::configure

Configures Roundcube only.

roundcube::nginx

Installs and configures NGINX including needed dependencies and a vhost for Roundcube.

roundcube::nginx_vhost

A dry recipe that provides a configuration file for an NGINX Roundcube vhost only. The NGINX service is notified to restart.

Usage

The default recipe will install and configure Roundcube intefacing GMail for both IMAP and SMTP; no web server is configured - it is recommended to also add the roundcube::nginx recipe to the run_list (Apache HTTPd support TODO or contrib welcome).

When utilizing the nginx recipe, the php-fpm cookbook is used to configure PHP-FPM which by default provides a pool named 'www' with the socket residing in /var/run/php-fpm-www.sock.

Note: this cookbook does not configure a database server for Roundcube, this should be done independently (see prerequisites above).

Prototyping

For further prototyping Roundcube on a server node: https://github.com/chef-blueprints/roundcube.

Troubleshooting

For Roundcube itself, see http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Howto_Install#Troubleshooting.

License & Authors

• Author:: Chris Fordham (chris@fordham-nagy.id.au)

Copyright 2014 Chris Fordham

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