OX6:OX Mobile Web Interface

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Information and Installation of OXtender for Mobile Web

Description

The OXtender for Mobile Web lets you access (read only at the moment) data from Open-Xchange Server 6 with your Iphone or other internet enabled devices. Data of the following modules can be accessed:

  • Calendar
  • Contacts
  • Task

Components

The Oxtender for Mobile Web contains 2 parts. One part is dedicated to the iPhone as webclient and the other one is for most of the other mobile devices which dont have any WEBKIT powered browser installed. The OXtender is written in PHP and therefore requires that you have installed php5 on your Webserver including following modules which are need by the application:

  • gettext
  • json
  • mcrypt
  • curl

Requirements

  • Debian Lenny or Etch, SUSE Linux Enterprise 10
  • 1GB RAM

The OXtender for Mobile Web is available for all customers with a Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, Open-Xchange Server Edition and Open-Xchange Appliance Edition Maintenance.

For successfully installing you need the Open-Xchange Server 6 SP5 or higher. If you are interested to use the OXtender but do not have a respective Maintenance for the Open-Xchange Server Edition, Open-Xchange Hosting Edition and Open-Xchange Appliance Edition, please contact Open-Xchange for a evaluation license: http://www.open-xchange.com/en/contactus

Download

Follow this link to download the Installation package and the Release Notes. (The LDB credentials have to be provided)

Installation

  • After the download of the package, you can start the installation via your favorite package manager. On Debian you can use "dpkg -i" or on SUSE you would use the "rpm -Uvh" command.

Configuration

  • After the installation of the OXtender for Mobile Web, you will find an Open-Xchange configuration file in /var/www/ox6-mobile/ called config.php. Please edit this file and set the hostname etc. according to your OX 6 installation. Make also sure your locales (en_EN@utf8,de_de@utf8)on the system are correctly installed and configured. Else you wont see any translated page.
  • For more details and README see the systems documentation directory (/usr/share/doc).

Please Note

After Installation of OXtender for Mobile Web on a Debian 32-bit systems Appointments may be displayed wrongly within the Mobile-GUI. Please read the SDB-Article to inform you about the reasons and solution.