How to set document root path for Roundcube 1.7 when manually installed in ISPConfig 3 website

I saw the stable release of roundcube 1.7 today, and tried to install it. Apparently they have changed their web structure, and require a /public_html folder be the root of the site, and then it references other files/folders that are above that root folder. This obviously does not work with ISPConfig, as it doesnt let you have 'custom' folders above /web. I tried using apache directives to override it to use /web/public_html as the root, but couldnt get that to work.
Its rather irritating they made a change like this that entirely breaks roundcube on ispconfig3. Wondering if anyone else has tried this or has a workaround.

 

Thanks, I had tried that but was having trouble getting it to work. I'll give it another go.

 

Could I get a little deeper explanation of what's this change in RC 1.7 means? In the 1.6 version, "/webmail" was just an alias that became available to all domains added to an ISPConfig website as part of the global conf.d/roundcubemail.conf configuration file for Apache. Do I now have to "enable" roundcube for each domain added to server that has v1.7 installed by using the DocRoot directive above? is that directive ADDING another document root, or replacing the existing one? does the conf.d/roundcubemail.conf that we were using for v1.6 need to be changed for 1.7 to make it work globally?
I've been looking around for an explanation to this, but have only been finding "you have to use public_html" but I've not seen what anyone actually changed to make that work.
thanks.

 

thanks for the clarification. I'll keep searching for how to integrate RC 1.7 into ISPConfig.

edit, to be clear. i don't want roundcube to be the default site. I only want Roundcube to be accessible by using the aliases /webmail or /roundcubemail. i like having the Apache default website be the default.

 

If I remember correctly, ISPConfig (auto installer) default setup already included that and it uses RC that is shipped with the OS. Do look up in ISPConfig doc for older manual, if your early setup specifically did not include it but now wish to add that manually.

 

I'm on a CentOS/Rocky 9.7 platform, so roundcube is installed manually (untar, copy/paste config mainly, db initialize - still pretty simple).
The real issue is that RC 1.7 has been revamped, and they want the default website to be the RC site. v1.6 was a generic install that you just created an alias for to access it - that doesn't appear to work any longer.
My fix for the short term is to just stick with 1.6.15 and use the alias method - i don't want the default site to be Roundcube - don't need to advertise that's it's available for hacking

thanks.

 

Hurmmm... About that, the core change in Roundcube 1.7 is that the root of your web alias must point strictly to the public_html subfolder, rather than the main installation folder, so I think, you can still use the traditional /webmail alias on a shared domain without making Roundcube the default website or exposing it broadly. That said, I have not tested this.