Comments on: Installing PostfixAdmin 2.2.x

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:41:19 +0000

@lingtalfi, If there is no socket definition in a php based app configuration it uses the one in php.in. So this would work for any php based application.

By: lingtalfi

lingtalfi — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:28:46 +0000

@Richard, yes sure (sudo pico -w +1064 /etc/php.ini), but what if another “myadmin” like has socket config somewhere else ? I personally like it in /tmp/mysql.sock as it is mysql’s default location, hence I would not permit a php programm to impose his will against mine (lol)

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:15:56 +0000

@lingtalfi, you can set the socket in your php.ini, I will add it to the document.

By: lingtalfi

lingtalfi — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:52:03 +0000

Because my mysql.sock was /tmp/mysql.sock
and because postfixadmin php script doesn’t offer the possibility
to configure it from the config.inc.file,
I had to edit the functions.inc.php file and around
line 1467, set connexion params of your own, like this

$link = mysqli_connect (
$CONF['database_host'],
$CONF['database_user'],
$CONF['database_password'],
”,
3306,
‘/tmp/mysql.sock’
) or $error_text .= (“DEBUG INFORMATION:Connect: ” . mysqli_connect_error () . “$DEBUG_TEXT”);

Note, I also added this
date_default_timezone_set(‘Europe/Paris’);
as first php instruction to fix a timezone error.

@Lewis, I had the same problem,
you can see exactly what’s going on by removing the @ symbol line 1467
of the functions.inc.php

Mean
replace this
$link = @mysqli_connect ($CONF['database_host'],…

by this
$link = mysqli_connect ($CONF['database_host'], …

By: Markis

Markis — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:11:04 +0000

In addition to:
mv setup.php setup.php.disabled

you’ll want to:
mv upgrade.php upgrade.php.disabled

and probably chmod 400 to both so no outsiders can read the files by accident (especially with MySQL passwords involved).

By: Markis

Markis — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 09:10:45 +0000

If you want to have different admins set-up for each domain and want to have one postfixadmin install across all the domains:

Create symlink at the root directory of each domain.
ln -s /www/domain1.com/postfixadmin postfixadmin

And in the config.inc.php change this line to:
$CONF['postfix_admin_url'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].’/postfixadmin’;

By: Lewis C. Lorenz

Lewis C. Lorenz — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:53:47 +0000

Thank you, Richard.

I got past that obstacle successfully and went to setup.php via the browser and have run into this error:

# Error: Can’t connect to database
Please edit the $CONF['database_*'] parameters in config.inc.php.

DEBUG INFORMATION:
Invalid $CONF['database_type']! Please fix your config.inc.php!

I have tried ‘mysql’ and ‘mysqli’ for the database type and neither gets me past this error. I am using MySQL 5.x.

Any idea? I am setting this up on a Snow Leopard Server. Could that be a problem?

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:52:49 +0000

@Lewis, you need to login to mysql with the proper admin rights you configured while installing/securing MySQL. Something like: mysql -uyouradminuser -p

By: Lewis C. Lorenz

Lewis C. Lorenz — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:13:55 +0000

Hello:

I keep getting the following error when I attempt to create the user postfix per the statement in these instructions:

ERROR 1396 (HY000): Operation CREATE USER failed for ‘postfix’@'localhost’

Any ideas, please? I have tried this as a normal user and as sudo. No luck.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:49:41 +0000

Looks like your mysql socket is configured wrong. To find out where your socket is located run the command “mysql_config” then edit your /etc/php.ini to change it to the correct location.