piler installation

[chandra]

HI,

I am try to installed the piler in ubuntu 18.04 i am not getting the login.php page.

Please help me how to install in ubuntu 18.04.

[Janos SUTO]

Well, follow the instructions on the piler site. Anyway, you provided basically nothing to help you. For starters what webserver do you use? What does your virtualhost config look like? Is there any webserver/php error log, etc?

[chandra]

I am using apache and my appache log is geving me this error PHP Fatal error: Class 'Controller' not found in /var/www/html/piler/login.php

[Janos SUTO]

OK, one step closer. Show me your virtualhost config, please.

[chandra]

Dear Sir,

Please guide me what is the requirement and how to install piler with step by step i will follow the same and i will try to reinstall. This is my request.

[Janos SUTO]

Well, follow the installation procedure on the piler wiki: http://www.mailpiler.org/wiki/current:installation

[georg luthardt]

Hello,

I’m struggling with the same problem, although with nginx, not apache.

A look at /var/log/nginx/error.log showed:

/var/piler/www/config.php on line 343
PHP message: PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/usr/local/etc/piler/config-site.php'

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the file is really missing. Instead the file lies at /var/piler/www/config-site.php

eighter copying it from there to /usr/local/etc/piler/config-site-php or changing the faulty line to:

require_once '/var/piler/www/config-site.php';

helped in my case.

perhaps this is the same problem here.

[Janos SUTO]

You might be right. I consolidated all the config files to ${sysconfdir}/piler directory, including config-site.php. When you execute make install config.php is fixed to look for config-site.php at this place. However, postinstall.sh still puts config-site.php next to config.php, ie. /var/piler/www dir. I’ll fix this soon.

[Janos SUTO]

Any update on the matter?

[georg luthardt]

we…yes…

right now there are 3 problems so in postinstall.sh:

1. Line 16 complains about SYSCONFDIR unknown

→ fixed it by adding a line

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SYSCONFDIR=”/usr/local/etc” 

above

2. when installed on a fresh system, the crontab for PILERUSER is empty.

→ set -o errexit or set -o pipefail end the script in this case

→ temporary fix by commenting it out

3. webui_install fails:

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chown "${PILERUSER}:${DOCROOT}" "${DOCROOT}/tmp"

should most likely be:

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chown "${PILERUSER}:${PILERUSER}" "${DOCROOT}/tmp"

I’ve fixed those locally, and will try to get the rest done. But for now you have some feedback :)

[Janos SUTO]

Eh, my bad. Thanks for the feedback, I’ll fix these soon.

[georg luthardt]

edit: the line is wrong, but my first fix is also not correct. the config-site.php does not contain the correct settings afterwards…perhaps you can find the correct fix. I will also look further.

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last bug so far:

line 413:

envsubst "${SCRIPT_DIR}/config-site.php.in" > "$CONFIG_SITE_PHP"

should be:

envsubst < "${SCRIPT_DIR}/config-site.php.in" > "$CONFIG_SITE_PHP"

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[georg luthardt]

ok, some more fiddling around with the envsubst line….

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1. problem $config in the input file → no way to escape the dollar. crude workaround, see here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14155596/how-to-substitute-shell-variables-in-complex-text-files

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change $config... to ${DOLLAR}config

than in your postinstall script:

add inside webui_install():

DOLLAR="$"
export DOLLAR

2. works not with shell variables. So every needed variable needs to be exported:

so add also inside webui_install():

export <any variable to be replaced>

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OR:

just do it the old way before the changes

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Edit:

proposed config-site.php.in

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<?php

${DOLLAR}config['SITE_NAME'] = '$HOSTNAME';
${DOLLAR}config['SITE_URL'] = 'http://' . ${DOLLAR}config['SITE_NAME'] . '/';
${DOLLAR}config['DIR_BASE'] = '$DOCROOT/';

${DOLLAR}config['SMTP_DOMAIN'] = '$HOSTNAME';
${DOLLAR}config['SMTP_FROMADDR'] = 'no-reply@' . ${DOLLAR}config['SMTP_DOMAIN'];
${DOLLAR}config['ADMIN_EMAIL'] = 'admin@' . ${DOLLAR}config['SMTP_DOMAIN'];

${DOLLAR}config['DB_DRIVER'] = 'mysql';
${DOLLAR}config['DB_PREFIX'] = '';
${DOLLAR}config['DB_HOSTNAME'] = '$MYSQL_HOSTNAME';
${DOLLAR}config['DB_USERNAME'] = '$MYSQL_USERNAME';
${DOLLAR}config['DB_PASSWORD'] = '$MYSQL_PASSWORD';
${DOLLAR}config['DB_DATABASE'] = '$MYSQL_DATABASE';

${DOLLAR}config['SMARTHOST'] = '$SMARTHOST';
${DOLLAR}config['SMARTHOST_PORT'] = '$SMARTHOST_PORT';

proposed changes in postinstall.sh → webui_install()

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   webui_install() {
   chmod 770 "${DOCROOT}/tmp" "${DOCROOT}/images"
   chown "${PILERUSER}:${PILERUSER}" "${DOCROOT}/tmp"

   DOLLAR="$"
   export DOLLAR
   export HOSTNAME
   export DOCROOT
   export MYSQL_HOSTNAME
   export MYSQL_USERNAME
   export MYSQL_PASSWORD
   export MYSQL_DATABASE
   export SMARTHOST
   export SMARTHOST_PORT

   envsubst < "${SCRIPT_DIR}/config-site.php.in" > "$CONFIG_SITE_PHP"

   echo "Done."
}

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[Janos SUTO]

I'll fix it soon. I’ll keep you posted.

[chandra]

Dear Sir,

I followed the instructions and installed and first login it is going with host name http://ipaddress:8080/mail1/index.php?route=health/health like this after that i pressed the back button it is coming properly. http://ipaddress:8080/ And i have one more dough i have mailserver in different server and i installed the plier in different server how to send the mails to this server.

[Janos SUTO]

You didn’t follow the instructions, because you should assign a dedicated host to the archive, or at least a dedicated virtual host. Installing to a sub-directory is not really supported.

[Janos SUTO]

Hello Georg, I've finally managed to fix the postinstall script on the master branch.

[georg luthardt]

Hello Janos,

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thanks for fixing. We will try the new script in january, when I plan to setup our 'production-piler'.

Since my last tests the test system was running and looks good for now. So with the improved postinstall script it should work without workarounds than.

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Thanks again for all your work, and prompt reactions to any issues

Georg