CentOS 6.3 and Zimbra 8 Install Guide

This is an install guide for Zimbra 8 on CentOS 6.3. This guide should help you get Zimbra up and running on CentOS.

First get the CentOS 6.3 Minimal iso

System Prep

Note IP Address

Check for internet connectivity

yum install system-config-network-tui

yum install system-config-firewall-tui

yum install nc

yum install sudo

yum install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel

yum install sysstat

yum install wget

yum install bind bind-utils

DNS Setup

chkconfig –-level 35 named on

vi /etc/named.conf

Change loopback to IP - Listen IP

//Insert Zone info into named.conf

zone "broexperts.com" {

       type master;
       file "broexperts.com.fwd";

}; zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {

       type master;
       file "broexperts.com.rev";

};

//Create Zone files mentioned in named.conf

cd /var/named

vi broexperts.com.fwd

///////////////////// $ORIGIN broexperts.com.

$TTL 3D

@ SOA dns.broexperts.com. root.broexperts.com. (12 4h 1h 1w 1h)

@ IN NS dns.broexperts.com.

dns.broexperts.com. IN A 192.168.0.211

www IN A 192.168.0.211

////////////////////

vi broexperts.com.rev

///////////////////// $ORIGIN 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.

$TTL 3D

@ SOA dns.broexperts.com. root.broexperts.com. (12 4h 1h 1w 1h)

@ IN NS dns.broexperts.com.

211 IN PTR dns.broexperts.com. ////////////////////

service named restart

cat /etc/resolve.conf //////// search broexperts.com

nameserver 192.168.0.211 ///////

nslookup www.broexperts.com

cd /tmp

wget http://files2.zimbra.com/downloads/8.0.2_GA/zcs-8.0.2_GA_5569.RHEL6_64.20121210115059.tgz

cd zcs-8*

./install.sh