Comments on: Installing PostfixAdmin 2.2.x

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:40:56 +0000

I wasn’t able to setup Postfix Admin properly.
The error I received was:

Error: Can’t connect to database
Please edit the $CONF['database_*'] parameters in config.inc.php.
DEBUG INFORMATION:
Connect: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2)

Here is my $CONF block (with substitute password, of course):

$CONF['database_type'] = ‘mysqli’;
$CONF['database_host'] = ‘localhost’;
$CONF['database_user'] = ‘postfix’;
$CONF['database_password'] = ‘mypassword’;
$CONF['database_name'] = ‘postfix’;
$CONF['database_prefix'] = ”;

By: rodrigo

rodrigo — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:38:31 +0000

I went ahead and follow through, however, when I input the setup password the next screen said to put the generated hash value in the config.inc.php page and it asked me to input the setup password again followed by the admin email and new admin password. When I hit submit the page turns all white.

Following the tutorial I went to myserver/postfixadmin and the form to login shows up but it keeps saying the username or password do not match.

I checked my database and the postfix user exists and has priviledges. But the admin user is never created in the admin table. Any suggestions?

Thank you

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:59:04 +0000

@Rodrigo, do not worry, everything will work without the imap module. It’s only required for some special stuff we aren’t using.

By: rodrigo

rodrigo — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:54:25 +0000

Richard,

I got a lot further now but I get this error on the postfixadmin setup:

Warning: Depends on: IMAP functions – NOT FOUND
To install IMAP support, install php5-imap
Without IMAP support, you won’t be able to create subfolders when creating mailboxes.

I don’t see in the php install tutorial where I needed to do anything with Imap. Did I miss it? Or is this warning expected and should I move on to the next step?

thanks

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:24:38 +0000

Luc, my best guess would be that you are trying to reach postfix admin through one of your virtual domains which won’t work if you put it in the Documents folder. To make this work you either need to move postfix admin into a site folder or access it via your http://hostname/postfixadmin

By: Luc Marivoet

Luc Marivoet — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:39:25 +0000

Hi Richard,

I’m getting a bit closer but got this problem now.

[Thu Aug 20 21:37:27 2009] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/idsmac.net/postfixadmin

The folder postfixadmin in the Documents folder but this error suggest it needs to be in website folder.
Any clue

Luc