2013-10-09

RoundCube on Nas4Free

ownCloud has some default "apps" (something that would have been called "plugins" some years ago) installed, but working with emails is much more enjoyable using RoundCube.

I installed RoundCube using the SQLite option as database. This was the only one supported according to the installation check. However, at the end of the installation, something went wrong with the creation of the database file.

In the end, to get RoundCube functional, two "details" have to be taken care of:

  • both db.inc.php and main.inc.php files need to belong the the web-server user (www). A chown www *.inc.php is enough.
  • the path to the sqlite.db file should NOT include the 4 slashes after the colon like written in the example of the db.inc.php file. 2 slashes instead would spare me the errors dues to missing database.
Note that I just use the web-server provided with Nas4Free, without any modifications.