Installing Roundcube on Plesk

If you are looking at this post, i would recommend upgrading to Plesk 12 instead.

What i use to install roundcube on plesk 10.X/11
I have successfully installed this same setup on all versions of plesk 8.x-11.x
This has also been tested with roundcube 8.0 to 9.0(beta/RC)


This does not update/conflict or change any of plesks default configurations!

You can almost copy past all commands and it'll work, its really easy to setup

# mkdir /var/www/roundcube

# cd /var/www/roundcube

# wget roundcube install from http://roundcube.net/download

# tar -xvzf roundcubemail-version.tar.gz

# mv /var/www/roundcube/roundcubemail-version/* /var/www/roundcube/

# chown -R apache.apache logs temp
# chmod 777 logs temp

You can create any database name/username you want

# mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`

mysql> create database roundcubedb;

mysql> grant all privileges on roundcubedb.* to roundcubeuser@localhost identified by 'PASSWORD';

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

mysql> exit

# mysql roundcubedb < SQL/mysql.initial.sql  -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`

# cp config/db.inc.php.dist config/db.inc.php

# cp config/main.inc.php.dist config/main.inc.php

Connecting roundcube to its database

# vi config/db.inc.php

:/db_dsnw

Change the below to the password you created above

$rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcubeuser:PASSWORD@localhost/roundcubedb';

Create the below httpd.conf

# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/roundcube.conf (or /etc/apache2/conf.d/roundcube.conf)

<VirtualHost SERVER_IP:80>

ServerName webmail

ServerAlias webmail.*

DocumentRoot /var/www/roundcube

    <Directory "/var/www/roundcube">

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Restart apache.

This will load over the top of Atmail and horde, if not disable both horde and AtMail

You need to change the below otherwise you have to type in the domain each time you login

# vi config/main.inc.php
$rcmail_config['default_host'] = NULL; to $rcmail_config['default_host'] = 'localhost';

I also change the following as i noticed some issues with folders not working properly on IMAP

 //$rcmail_config['create_default_folders'] = false;
$rcmail_config['create_default_folders'] = true;

If you want to run the installer to test everything works you can change the following, i dont bother though

# vi config/main.inc.php

:/enable_installer
$rcmail_config['enable_installer'] = true;

Enabling password change

# cp plugins/password/config.inc.php.dist plugins/password/config.inc.php
# vi plugins/password/config.inc.php
Change first line to $rcmail_config['password_driver'] = 'poppassd';
:wq
# vi config/main.inc.php

(find plugin):/'plugins'
Change it to $rcmail_config['plugins'] = array('password')
Now when you login, go to settings. You can now update the password!

Other settings that can help!

I also set the following so emails always used Html not plain text

# vi config/main.inc.php

:/htmleditor

// 0 - never, 1 - always, 2 - on reply to HTML message only

$rcmail_config['htmleditor'] = 1;

Some common install bugs

Log in issue (instantly fails) Change the line main.inc.php the following Line from "null" to "plain"

# vi main.inc.php

:/imap_auth_type

$rcmail_config['imap_auth_type'] = plain;

Issue with Roundcube, settings page displays white.

# vi /etc/php.ini

:/date.timezone

I updated mine to date.timezone = "Australia/Sydney"

Settings page now works

If you find you are having issues with moving items to other folders/deleting/emails aren't displaying in sent, they the following

//$rcmail_config['drafts_mbox'] = 'Drafts';
$rcmail_config['drafts_mbox'] = 'INBOX.Drafts';

//$rcmail_config['junk_mbox'] = 'Junk';
$rcmail_config['drafts_mbox'] = 'INBOX.Junk';

//$rcmail_config['sent_mbox'] = 'Sent';
$rcmail_config['drafts_mbox'] = 'INBOX.Sent';

//$rcmail_config['trash_mbox'] = 'Trash';
$rcmail_config['drafts_mbox'] = 'INBOX.Trash';

//$rcmail_config['default_imap_folders'] = array('INBOX', 'Drafts', 'Sent', 'Junk', 'Trash');
$rcmail_config['default_imap_folders'] = array('INBOX', 'INBOX.Drafts', 'INBOX.Sent', 'INBOX.Junk', 'INBOX.Trash');

You need a httpd restart for this to take affect

If you want to add dns records to all the domains on your hosting you can run this script

mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` psa -Ns -e "select name from domains" | xargs -I {} /usr/local/psa/bin/./dns --add {} -a roundcube -ip SERVER_IP

Also add an entry into your plesk DNS template, so any newly added domains will have this dns record automatically 

Now you should be able to using roundcube on any domain with the "http://roundcube.domain.com"

Also i have setup, when this wasnt setup any resolving/wildcard dns would display roundcube

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/default.conf

<VirtualHost SERVER_IP:80>

ServerName default

ServerAlias default.*

DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs

        <Directory "/var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs">

        </Directory>

</VirtualHost>