Roundcube broken after upgrade to Server 4.0

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Roundcube broken after upgrade to Server 4.0

Hi all

I had a fully functional Roundcube webmail service running on my server up to Server version 3.2.2. After the upgrade to Yosemite / Server 4.0 this web site is broken. This has two different sources:

Roundcube tries to set access an access control via .htaccess and this is no longer allowed by the web server configuration. This produces the following error (500)
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator at admin@example.com to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Internal Server Error
Postgres is no longer used by Server 4.0 and is probably not installed (at least it does not run). I think I can handle this.

Now my question: How can I grant Roundcube the privileges to control access to its files?

Best regards and many thanks in advance.

Stefan Messmer

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10), Server version 4.0

Posted on Oct 23, 2014 1:42 PM

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Answer 1

sazlan14

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Oct 23, 2014 11:59 PM in response to stefanfromschaffhausen

now my server mac mini OS X 10.10 not running webmail and also roundccube before this on mac mini 10.8.5 running smoothly

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Answer 2

Oct 24, 2014 11:57 PM in response to stefanfromschaffhausen

Hi, Stefan!

I, too, have a similar problem. What happened was I upgraded to OS X Yosemite and have purchases OS X Server 4.0. What I have noticed are:

it "broke" Roundcube
when I looked at the Mail > IMAP Logs, it said that authentication is denied
it won't let you modify and user accounts, like change passwords
on the Mail section of the Server App, it will only say that it is available only to local users (same subnet), which I have verified as true as nothing can access it from "outside"

I had no choice but to downgrade. Luckily I have a good backup in Time Machine.

- Michael

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Answer 3

Nov 5, 2014 11:16 AM in response to MikeMastelero

I can give the answer to myself. To bring Roundcube back to life, you have 2 options:

Remove all files named ".htaccess" in the Roundcube directory (you can't see it with the Finder) or
Edit the Apache configuration files (I don't know exactly where and how...).

The first option is much more simple and I hope, Apples Apache configurations takes care of security... I have chosen the first option.

Then you must start Postgres and connect to the correct database (Postgres is at /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin/postgres_real).

After this Roundcube worked as before...

Stefan Messmer

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