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Topic: Newbie install on FreeBSD - web interface not working

Total iRedMail newbie here.
I installed 1.7.3 PGSQL edition following the instructions at docs.iredmail.org/install.iredmail.on.freebsd.html (took a long time to build all the ports) on FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 on arm64, and configured it to use nginx.

After the installation the web interface doesn't seem to work - I only get
"404 Not Found" on both the /iredadmin and /mail URLs.

Any pointers or suggestions?

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Re: Newbie install on FreeBSD - web interface not working

Did you choose to install iRedAdmin and Roundcube during installation?

You can try the new branch which installs all software with the officially pre-built binary packages: https://forum.iredmail.org/topic20860-c … kages.html

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Re: Newbie install on FreeBSD - web interface not working

ZhangHuangbin wrote:

Did you choose to install iRedAdmin and Roundcube during installation?

Yes, and they do appear in iRedMail.tips.

ZhangHuangbin wrote:

You can try the new branch which installs all software with the officially pre-built binary packages: https://forum.iredmail.org/topic20860-c … kages.html

Thanks! Will do!

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ZhangHuangbin wrote:

You can try the new branch which installs all software with the officially pre-built binary packages: https://forum.iredmail.org/topic20860-c … kages.html

Unfortunately I still get the same result (I did not do a full clean reinstall of the whole OS, just the iRedMail packages).

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Re: Newbie install on FreeBSD - web interface not working

OpenBSD/FreeBSD had so many issues in the past, my personal opinion on this is:

use Debian and mysql, it has way less issues and is very stable, never had any problems with it


404 means, you should check nginx logfiles to see what happens, maybe permission problem, maybe the softlinks aren't working, the logs sould give you a good hint at this

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Re: Newbie install on FreeBSD - web interface not working

julf wrote:

Unfortunately I still get the same result (I did not do a full clean reinstall of the whole OS, just the iRedMail packages).

Better use a clean OS for installation.
What's the related error in Nginx log files?

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ZhangHuangbin wrote:
julf wrote:

Unfortunately I still get the same result (I did not do a full clean reinstall of the whole OS, just the iRedMail packages).

Better use a clean OS for installation.

I am reluctant to do that as it wasn't that easy to get FreeBSD up on the Raspberry 5 in the first place, but might use a spare Intel NUC instead.

What's the related error in Nginx log files?

That's the weird thing - no error messages in the nginx log.

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julf wrote:

That's the weird thing - no error messages in the nginx log.

Nginx has buffered log, please disable buffer in /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf-enabled/log.conf first, then try again.

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ZhangHuangbin wrote:
julf wrote:

That's the weird thing - no error messages in the nginx log.

Nginx has buffered log, please disable buffer in /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf-enabled/log.conf first, then try again.

Even with "fastcgi_buffering off;" I still get no logging.

Anyway, this seems to be an ARM issue, it is running just fine on amd64.