Difference between revisions of "Roundcube"

Revision as of 15:02, 17 February 2025

About

Roundcube (RC) is a webmail client that runs under the LAMP stack.

Files

When installed via apt, this is where Roundcube's files end up:

path	description
`/etc/roundcube`	global configuration stuff: `defaults.inc.php`: must be present; should not be edited `config.inc.php`: must be present, and should be edited to contain local settings `main.inc.php`: old name for `config.inc.php` RC will load this if `config.inc.php` is not found should not be present in new installations `debian-db.php`: database credentials for RC installs in Debian-based systems
`/usr/share/roundcube`	application code
`/var/lib/roundcube`	installation image -- about half of the top folders here are just links: `config` → `/etc/roundcube` `logs` → `../../log/roundcube` (`/var/log/roundcube`) `program` → `/usr/share/roundcube/program` `SQL` → `/usr/share/roundcube/SQL` It also contains a few web-app-related things: `public_html`: the web server should point at this folder `skins` ← `public_html/skins` `plugins` ← `public_html/plugins`

When installed this way, however, RC is not configured to play nicely with a virtual domain. It seems to expect to run as www-data. Tentatively, the remedy is just to change ownership of everything it touches (including log folders), but I'm still working on this. —Woozle (talk) 15:02, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Tech Notes

The MariaDB/MySQL password must not contain the & character, because the DSN parser treats it as syntactically significant. There does not seem to be any way of escaping it, either. The critical piece of code is in /usr/share/roundcube/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_db.php, line 1336:

if (strpos($dsn, '&') !== false) {
    $opts = explode('&', $dsn);
}

Pages

/archive: obsolete stuff

Links

Reference

roundcube.net - official
Wikipedia

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 * <code>program</code> &rarr; <code>/usr/share/roundcube/program</code>
 * <code>SQL</code> &rarr; <code>/usr/share/roundcube/SQL</code>
+It also contains a few web-app-related things:
+* <code>public_html</code>: the web server should point at this folder
+* <code>skins</code> &larr; <code>public_html/skins</code>
+* <code>plugins</code> &larr; <code>public_html/plugins</code>
 |}
+When installed this way, however, RC is ''not'' configured to play nicely with a virtual domain. It seems to expect to run as <code>www-data</code>. Tentatively, the remedy is just to change ownership of everything it touches (including log folders), but I'm still working on this. &mdash;''[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] ([[User talk:Woozle|talk]]) 15:02, 17 February 2025 (UTC)''
 ==Tech Notes==
 The MariaDB/MySQL password must not contain the <code>&amp;</code> character, because the DSN parser treats it as syntactically significant. There does not seem to be any way of escaping it, either. The critical piece of code is in <code>/usr/share/roundcube/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_db.php</code>, line 1336: