This article introduces the zinstaller script that can be used for automating the installation of Zimbra. The zinstaller script will install a Zimbra 9 single server on Ubuntu 20 and will also obtain and install a 60-day trial license.
If you are new to Zimbra, the zinstaller script makes it easy to evaluate Zimbra on premise. If you already run Zimbra you can use zinstaller to preview the latest features. Developers can use zinstaller as an easy way to set-up a development server.
If your mail server is reachable under mail.example.com and you want your email addresses to look like [email protected], you can run zinstaller as follows:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Zimbra/zinstaller/master/zinstaller -O /root/zinstaller
chmod +x /root/zinstaller
/root/zinstaller -p put-a-password-here -n mail -t 'Europe/London' -a n --letsencrypt y example.com
Having a poor connection over SSH? Try using screen:
apt -y install screen
screen
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Zimbra/zinstaller/master/zinstaller -O /root/zinstaller
chmod +x /root/zinstaller
/root/zinstaller -p put-a-password-here -n mail -t 'Europe/London' -a n --letsencrypt y example.com
Should your connection drop, you can use the ssh command like normal and resume your session using:
screen -r
The zinstaller set's up a daily cron job to renew and deploy the Let's Encrypt certificate on Zimbra, you must however restart Zimbra manually at a suitable time for the new certificate to be used. To do this issue sudo su zimbra -c "/opt/zimbra/bin/zmcontrol restart" on the command line.
Installed trial license.
Modern UI after installation.