Egroupware on NGINX and MAriadb

rsteinmetz70112 2018-03-01 18:05:02 UTC #1

I’ve been thinking of moving Egroupware to NGINIX and MARIAdb. We currently use Apache2 and MYSQL

Can anyone tell me if:

They are approved by Egroupware
It’s worth it for a small group
Whether it is as easy as some people say.

I will still keep using Ubuntu LTS currently 16.04 and it will stay that way until at least 18.04.1
Thanks for any comments.

grefabu 2018-03-01 19:56:31 UTC #2

Why ngnix, did you’ve performance issues? For a small group.

Think it’s a matter what you like and but if you made a package installation it is easyer to take apache. Even let’s encrypt has an apache auto conf, don’t know if that an issue for you.

MariaDB work on my debian 9 as good as MySQL, so think there is no thing to think about it.

Why ubuntu, test debian. Take the original,…

RalfBecker 2018-03-02 10:57:59 UTC #3

Hi,

Nginx is supported now by EGroupware Packages under Debian/Ubuntu (not under RPM based systems!).

You just do an install like:

apt install nginx php-fpm egroupware-epl

Please note you need to explicitly name both nginx and php-fpm, to trigger the Nginx install.

Nginx is better performance-wise and recommended for bigger installations, only drawback is it’s configuration is different from Apache. It is also supported by Let’s Encrypt and our Nginx configuration file in /etc/egroupware/nginx.conf has points how to enable TLS via Let’s Encrypt.

Ralf

rsteinmetz70112 2018-03-02 21:10:24 UTC #4

I started using Ubuntu when Debian was in a permanent Beta and just kept with it. MARIAdb is now the default for Ubuntu and might be easier to maintain. I also wonder where MYSQL will go in the future. It also has better performance than MYSQL.

Performance is not really an issue for us. I’m more interested in stability and ease of maintenance.

Thanks Ralf that’s good to know.