[SOLVED] How do I do this - webmail and roundcube on the host, without a virtual server?

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  1. I am just really struggling to setup the webmail to use https://webmail.domain.com with roundcube
  2. How do I install roundcube if I am not using a virtual server?
  • I have tried manually installing roundcube via download and attempting to get it working in the directory the webmail is pointing to, but that is not working.

This is what I am trying to do:

This is what I have:

I have configured Webmin Configuration to get SSL Cert via Let’s encrypt for mail.domain.com

I will eventually add additional domains for email, but they should all

Having played with iredmail before you can actually setup a mail domain using the same QDN as the host sits on (host (FQDN) = mail-1.domain.com / QDN = domain.com). On VirtualMin if you try setup a virtual server using the DQN (domain.com) on a host that is using mail-1.domain.com it causes all sorts of problems.

Any assistance please? Or tell me what I am doing wrong. :frowning:

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Dont understand too much what you want…you are using Virtualmin or just Webmin? Did you have a virtualserver for your domain.tld? And want to create that subdomain (without creating another virtualserver) to get roundcube running on it? You are using apache or nginx?

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I guess I wasn’t very precise here. So I have: ubuntu 18.04.1 & virtualmin from shell install.

HOST = mail-1.domain-1.com
LOOKING FOR:

Then I will configure

Just can’t get the roundcube working. Basically trying to install webmail at the root of the host domain with roundcube working.

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I have this setup here and working normally.

What you use for web access? apache or nginx? can you provide your configs to that?

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Hi, I use Apache. What configs do you require? I have destroyed my system so many times in the last 3 days now I am starting from scratch again. Let me get the host running and I will share what you need.

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I don’t known how to add that on Apache, just on Nginx.

What is do is that:

  • Create an A record with name webmail pointing to your IPv4, the same of the main domain.

  • On nginx I added this configuration:

    server {

    listen 80;
    server_name webmail.domain.io;
    return 301 https://webmail.domain.io$request_uri;

}
server {

listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name webmail.domain.io;
root /home/domain/webmail/public_html;
ssl_certificate /home/domain/ssl.cert;
ssl_certificate_key /home/domain/ssl.key;

# Logs
access_log off;
error_log /home/domain/webmail/logs/webmail_error_log;

# Protection
location ~ "^/(?!installer|\.well-known\/|[a-zA-Z0-9]{16})(\.?[^\.]+)$" {
    deny all;
}

location ~ ^/?(\.git|\.tx|SQL|bin|config|logs|temp|tests|program\/(include|lib|localization|steps)) {
    deny all;
}

location ~ ^/vendor\/bin\/.* {
    deny all;
}

location ~ /?(README\.md|composer\.json-dist|composer\.json|package\.xml|jsdeps.json|Dockerfile)$ {
    deny all;
}

location = /favicon.ico {
    root /home/codebr/webmail/public_html/skins/larry/images;
}

# Block Robots
add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow, nosnippet, noarchive";
location = /robots.txt {
    add_header Content-Type text/plain;
    return 200 "User-agent: *\nDisallow: /\n";
}

# CodeBR.io
include /etc/marcelorp/nginx/default.conf;
include /etc/marcelorp/nginx/cache.conf;

location ~ \.php$ {
    include /etc/marcelorp/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/webmail.sock;
}

}




So now I have the subdomain pointed to my IPv4 and my Nginx configuration receiving that and pointing to webmail folder, and in my clients I just redirect all the webmail.clientdomain.tld to my webmail.domain.tld.

In Apache should be the same logic, I prefer Nginx…its more simple and fast.

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Thanks marcelorp! Your config helped me solve my issue. Still using Apache. But this is what I have been doing wrong … I haev been using webmin to try and manage the certs for the host system … absolute nightmare!!!

So, I create a virtual server, and set up the certs in the there for : domain.com; hostname.domain.com; mail.domain.com, webmail.domain.com. I have applied those to webmin, usermin, dovecot, postfix, proftpd.

I have installed roundcube in the root of the virtual-server domain.com.

I have also hashed out the directives in both the 80 and 443 domain.com virtual server files

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =webmail.domain.com
#RewriteRule ^(.) https://domain.com:20000/ [R]
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =webmail.domain.com
#RewriteRule ^(.) https://domain.com/ [R]

I have also set the server template for apache to point the webmail to https://webmail.domain.com

OMG … so relieved, finally working.

:slight_smile:

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Im glady I can help you figure out what was the problem…about the certs…I do the same thing…its more easier and no errors here.

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@Nunnsby, when you said…

So, I create a virtual server, and set up the certs in the there for :
domain.com; hostname.domain.com; mail.domain.com, webmail.domain.com.
I have applied those to webmin, usermin, dovecot, postfix, proftpd.

… did you create subdomains and end up with 4 certs total for the “domain.com” domain… and which of the 4 did you apple to “webmin, usermin, dovecot, postfix, proftpd” ???

Thx!

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@jimdunn, Using LE (let’s Encrypt) you should get a single cert for all 4. Single domain name, with 3 sub domains included.

Then, when you do it first time and it completes, you “should” get the option to apply that cert with all 4 names included to webmin/usermin/etc. I say should as I think that is where it happened.

You may have to do the redirect for the webmail first as it may not work straight out of the box, until I had the webmail point to the root.

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Good to hear that. I want PhpMyadmin and webmail as centralized so that users dont need to install from scripts for each account.
Can you guide me with step by step instructions as i am not very familiar with the virtualmin.

Note: A video tutorial will help many starters as this is a very common question among virtualmin users.