Z-Push

Z-Push is an open source ActiveSync server written in PHP. It can use several data backends, the most featureful of which is Zarafa.

Installation

The following instructions were written for Z-Push 1.3 RC 2 on CentOS 5 and may not work on other platforms or versions. If you would like to see additional coverage, please add it yourself or make a request on the wiki's wanted page.

To install Z-Push, download and unzip the tarball to /var/www, add the appropriate configuration to Apache and make sure the permissions are set as necessary. Detailed instructions are in the INSTALL file unpacked from the tarball. Quick steps are shown below.

# wget http://download.berlios.de/z-push/z-push-1.3RC2.tar.gz
# tar xzf z-push-*.tar.gz -C /var/www
# echo 'Alias /Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync /var/www/z-push/index.php

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
php_flag register_globals off
php_flag magic_quotes_runtime off
php_flag short_open_tag on' > /etc/httpd/conf.d/z-push.conf
# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/z-push
# /etc/init.d/httpd graceful

You can test the installation by navigating to http://yourdomain.com/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync.