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Topic: Apache2 give bad user name iredadmin

==== Required information ====
- iRedMail version: 0.8.7
- Store mail accounts in which backend (LDAP/MySQL/PGSQL): MySQL
- Linux/BSD distribution name and version: Ubuntu 12.04.4
- Related log if you're reporting an issue:
"apache2: bad user name iredadmin
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
   ...fail!"
====

New installation of iRedmail and give me bad user name iredadmin.
I changed /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}

to

User www-data
Group www-data

But error still persist.

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Re: Apache2 give bad user name iredadmin

When I try to install iRedadmin give me error:
chown: invalid user: iredadmin

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Re: Apache2 give bad user name iredadmin

Obviously you didn't have iRedMail successfully installed. Did you follow our installation guide for Ubuntu below? Any error during installation?
http://www.iredmail.org/install_iredmail_on_ubuntu.html

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Re: Apache2 give bad user name iredadmin

ZhangHuangbin wrote:

Obviously you didn't have iRedMail successfully installed. Did you follow our installation guide for Ubuntu below? Any error during installation?
http://www.iredmail.org/install_iredmail_on_ubuntu.html

Yes, I did. But I couldn't see error during installation. I decided to install on new fresh ubuntu server.
Thanks