Welcome...
... to the official Open-Xchange Wiki. This Wiki provides information about Open-Xchange Server and other Open-Xchange related components. Feel free to contribute your information about Open-Xchange in this wiki.
Getting started
- Open-Xchange Forum
- Open-Xchange Bugzilla
- Wiki usage hints
- Bug writing guidelines
- Versioning and Numbering
- #open-xchange IRC channel at http://freenode.net
Troubleshooting
- Check the Open-Xchange Support Database
- FAQs can be found in the SDB FAQ section.
Open-Xchange Server 6
Installation Requirements
Supported packages
- Quick installation Guide for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (Etch)
- Quick installation Guide for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny)
- Quick installation Guide for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
- Quick installation Guide for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
- Quick installation Guide for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
Unsupported packages
- About Community Packages
- Quick installation Guide for CentOS5
- Quick installation Guide for Fedora 9
- Quick installation Guide for Ubuntu 8.04
- Quick installation Guide for Ubuntu 8.04 (French)
- Quick installation Guide for openSUSE 11.0
There are packages for more distributions available. Just look at the openSUSE download server.
Update from old packages
OX Appliance Edition
OXtender for Mac OS X
OXtender for Mobile Web
OX LDAP Sync
Installation based on source code
up2OX (Pre-Alpha)
Documentation and Examples
- Manuals (PDF, HTML)
- Software architecture diagram
- OX Installation and Administration Manual
- Integrate Open-Xchange into SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
Interfaces
- The HTTP API is used by the new AJAX GUI. 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
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.
Importing and exporting data
- Documentation for the data import format
- VCard and ICal support
- Using the export servlet
- Using the import servlet
- SLOX 4.1 to Open-Xchange Express Edition Migration
- Example in bash to extract private contacts,tasks,appointments in ical/vcard format
- Importing holidays into the OX Calendar
UI Customization
- 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 Translation
- Gui Plugin Development
- Gui Plugin API Documentation
- Enable the TinyMCE spell-checker module
- Upsell Layer Package
Programming Examples and Howtos
- Authentication Plugin description
- Automatically delete users OX-Objects and OX-Folders
- Auto login, session handling, single sign on
Outlook OXtender
- How to configure the OXtender .msi file for automatic creation of an Outlook profile and an IMAP account
- How to do the same as a silent installation
OXtender for Mac OS X
Configuration and Tweaks
- Basic troubleshooting
- HTML Whitelist configuration
- Open-Xchange Configuration
- Open-Xchange and Lighttpd
- Funambol Mobile Device Synchronization
- Open-Xchange as RSS client
- On The Fly Configuration Update (experimental)
- Session migration
- syslog Configuration
Testing and QA
Miscellaneous
- UDPPush
- Available Translations
- Open-Xchange Hosted Architecture Whitepaper
- Directory Integration Whitepaper
- Reviewers Guide Open-Xchange Appliance Edition
- Open-Xchange Server Live ISO system (bootable ISO image)
SocialOX
Contributions
Open-Xchange Server 5 (legacy)
For information about OX5, take a look at the Open-Xchange Server 5 page.
