How to Install Redmine on CentOS (Detailed)
IntroductionI spent a fair bit of time looking for a good issue tracking / project management solution. Having considered extensively both open source and commercial solutions (up to about $200/month price range like Jira+Confluence and Zoho Projects) I decided to go with Redmine as it offers a good mix of issue tracking and project management capability, most specifically status workflows, sub-tasking and task dependencies and everything else we need. However, when I decided to deploy Redmine I encountered numerous difficulties, as at my workplace we use PHP and are not familiar with Ruby on Rails and setting up Ruby on Rails for anyone not familiar with it is rather difficult, largely due to the various version dependencies and incompatibilities and lack of decent detailed documentation on how to do it. I managed to setup Redmine on Windows XP using MySQL, Apache and Mongrel, but when I tried to install the same setup on Windows Server 2008 I encountered all sorts of issues with RoR and MySQL, so I decided to setup on CentOS, which is what we use for our production web hosting anyway. CentOS is one of the most frequently chosen Linux operating systems for Linux based production environments. There is extensive documentation available on setting up CentOS and it is arguably the best choice for deploying and running production Linux servers for organisation with all levels of in-house Linux server deployment and administration capability. Redmine is one of the best (if not THE best) open source issue tracking and project management applications, but because it is developed using Ruby on Rails it can be rather complex to deploy for anyone not familiar with the Ruby on Rails environment. This How-To provides detailed steps required to get Redmine up and running on a CentOS operating system using the following components:
The How-To provides detailed instructions on the installation and explains what each step does, so that it can be easily follows by people experienced and new to the Ruby on Rails environment. Assumptions
Installation InstructionsInstall gem and passenger dependenciesyum -y install zlib-devel curl-devel openssl-devel httpd-devel apr-devel apr-util-devel mysql-devel Get Ruby# Create the directory where you will store the Downloads mkdir ~/Downloads # This can be any directory. # Change to directory where you will store the download cd ~/Downloads # This can be any directory. # FTP to where you will download ruby from. # When asked to login use user/password of anonymous/anonymous ftp ftp.ruby-lang.org Name (ftp.ruby-lang.org:root): anonymous Password: anonymous ftp> cd /pub/ruby ftp> get ruby-1.8.7-pXXX.tar.gz ftp> quit # You have now downloaded ruby and need to untar it tar zxvf ruby-1.8.7-pXXX.tar.gz # Compile ruby cd ruby-1.8.7-pXXX ./configure make make install # Verify ruby installation ruby -v which ruby # Change back into your downloads directory cd .. Get Gems 1.4.2 (does not work with Gems 1.5)wget http://production.cf./rubygems/rubygems-1.4.2.tgz tar zxvf rubygems-1.4.2.tgz cd rubygems-1.4.2 ruby setup.rb gem -v which gem cd .. Install Passenger (requires gcc)gem install passenger passenger-install-apache2-module An alternate method is to install mod_passenger RPM for Apache from the following location: RHEL/CentOS 5 rpm -Uvh http://passenger./rhel/5/passenger-release.noarch.rpm yum install mod_passenger RHEL/CentOS 6 rpm --import http://passenger./RPM-GPG-KEY-stealthymonkeys.asc yum install http://passenger./rhel/6/passenger-release.noarch.rpm yum install mod_passenger Restart Apacheservice httpd restart Download RedmineDownload page: http:///frs/?group_id=1850 wget http:///frs/download.php/75597/redmine-1.3.0.tar.gz # GET LATEST VERSION ON RUBYFORGE tar zxvf redmine-1.3.0.tar.gz Copy the folder to its HTTP document root foldercp -av redmine-1.3.0/* /var/www/redmine Configure Apache to host the documentsmore information can be found here: HowTo configure Apache to run Redmine Install Bundlergem install bundler Add the Bundler Boot and preinitializer codeFor more info go to the Bundler site. Create the Gemfile and register these gems in itvi /var/www/redmine/Gemfile # file: /var/www/redmine/Gemfile source "http://" gem "rake", "0.8.3" gem "rack", "1.1.0" gem "i18n", "0.4.2" gem "rubytree", "0.5.2", :require => "tree" gem "RedCloth", "~>4.2.3", :require => "redcloth" # for CodeRay gem "mysql" gem "coderay", "~>0.9.7" bundle install Create the Redmine MySQL databaseyum install mysql-server chkconfig mysqld on service mysqld start /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation
grant all privileges on redmine.* to 'redmine'@'localhost' identified by 'my_password'; Configure /var/www/redmine/config/database.yml (rename database.yml.example)Set the production environment (optional)Uncomment the following line in file redmine/config/environment.rb: ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production' Generate the session storeRAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake generate_session_store Migrate the database modelsRAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake db:migrate Load default data (optional)RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake redmine:load_default_data Follow instructions. Rename dispatch CGI files in /var/www/redmine/public/mv dispatch.cgi.example dispatch.cgi mv dispatch.fcgi.example dispatch.fcgi mv dispatch.rb.example dispatch.rb Edit .htaccess file for CGI dispatch configurationmv htaccess.fcgi.example .htaccess Chown and Chmod files for read/write access for the Apache usercd .. chown -R apache:apache redmine-1.x chmod -R 755 redmine-1.x Redmine should be fully installed now and fully usableEnjoy! |
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