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Open-Xchange Community Edition
Open-Xchange Community Edition differs from other Open-Xchange editions in not being supported by Open-Xchange. It has the very same functionality like all other editions and shares the same code base.
When you choose to install packages for one of the maintained platforms as listed below, you can later buy maintenance and a support contract without migrating any data.
Products like OXtender for MS Outlook and OXtender for Mac OS can only be purchased and supported in combination with a maintenance contract and thus only with products like HE, SE, SE for UCS or AE.
Installation Requirements
- Supported IMAP servers
- Supported Java runtimes
- Supported Web browsers
- Importing the Open-Xchange public buildkey
Update from old packages
Maintained packages (Support contract available)
To download and install the software, please use the following Installation Guides:
- Download and Installation Guide for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny)
- Download and Installation Guide for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
- Download and Installation Guide for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
- Download and Installation Guide for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
- Installing Open-Xchange Language Packages
- Software repository
Unsupported packages
Manuals
Manuals for Open-Xchange Community Edition
- Installation and Administration Manual (English)
- Provisioning of users and groups (English)
- User Manual (German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish)
Troubleshooting
- Open-Xchange Forum
- Check the Open-Xchange Support Database
- FAQs can be found in the SDB FAQ section.
Documentation and Examples
- Open-Xchange Supported Crawler Matrix (Status OX6 v.6.16)
- Software architecture diagram
- Integrate Open-Xchange into SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
- Load balancing and OX clustering
- Integration of Open-Xchange into MS Active Directory and Exchange
- Publishing Data with Open-Xchange
- Using the Facebook messaging with Open-Xchange
- Restoring contexts using the context restore bundle
- Backup of an Open-Xchange installation
Whitepapers
Translations
UI Customization
- Embedding external web applications which require authentication (OX >=6.16)
- Gui Theming Description
- User and context based themes
- Setting User/GUI Preferences via RMI
- Adding a predefined UWA widget for a User
- Open-Xchange Netvibes UWA mashup
- Gui Plugin Development
- Gui Plugin API Documentation
- Enable the TinyMCE spell-checker module
- Upsell Layer Package
Programming Examples and Howtos
- Authentication Plugin description
- How to make custom changes to existing plugins
- Automatically delete users OX-Objects and OX-Folders
- Auto login, session handling, single sign on
Interfaces
- The HTTP API is used by the Open-Xchange GUI and various 3rd party applications. It consists mainly of messages in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) sent over HTTP.
- The WebDAV API is used by external clients to modify object on the OX Server. It based mainly on the webdav standard with some enhancements to handle OX objects.
- Provisioning API to access the Open-Xchange Admin Daemon
- The RMI API is used for data provisioning of Contexts, Users, Groups and Resources as well as for configuring Databases, Filestores and OX Servers. It is currently split into two parts,
- The Open-Xchange CLT are shell scripts that simplify groupware and service administration
- Provisioning using SOAP
- The Oxmapi is a windows library for programmers needed to communicate with the OX server
- Open-Xchange Mail Abstraction Layer
- The Plugin API for extending the GUI is described in two documents: an overview and the reference
- UDPPush Open-Xchange PUSH Interface for Groupware Objects
Importing and exporting data
- Documentation for the data import format
- VCard and ICal support
- Using the export servlet
- Using the import servlet
- Example in bash to extract private contacts,tasks,appointments in ical/vcard format
- Importing holidays into the OX Calendar
- Architecture of the crawler bundle
Configuration and Tweaks
- Basic troubleshooting
- HTML Whitelist configuration
- Open-Xchange Configuration
- Open-Xchange and Lighttpd
- Open-Xchange as RSS client
- On The Fly Configuration Update (experimental)
- Session migration
- syslog Configuration
- Integrate OXAE Mailinglists into Open-Xchange
- Mail Notification (Push) with Open-Xchange
Testing and QA
Installation based on source code
Open-Xchange Plugins
Open-Xchange is using the OSGi architecture to have maximum extensibility and flexibility. Many parts of Open-Xchange Server can be replaced by different OSGi components, which are called Bundles.
- Overview of Open-Xchange Plugins (Bundles)
- How to make custom changes to existing plugins
- Open-Xchange Supported Crawler Matrix