HowTo configure Apache to run Redmine
Version 1 (Cyber Sprocket, 2009-06-02 06:32)
| 1 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | h1. HowTo configure Apache to run Redmine |
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| 3 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | These notes assume you already have Redmine running via the webrick server and are looking to get Redmine running via your existing Apache installation. |
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| 5 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | Most of the commands assume you are in the root installation directory of redmine, so be sure to change directory there before starting. |
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| 7 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | h2. For CentOS 5 |
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| 9 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | h3. Assumptions |
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| 11 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | * OS is CentOS 5 |
| 12 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | * Web server is Apache 2 |
| 13 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | ** mod_cgi is enabled |
| 14 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | ** name based virtual servers are being used |
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| 16 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | h3. Basic Steps |
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| 18 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | * Install Redmine per the installation instructions and get it running with webrick. |
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| 20 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | * Kill the webrick session |
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| 22 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | * Copy the public/dispatch.cgi.example to public/dispatch.cgi |
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| 24 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | * Edit public/dispatch.cgi to fix the shell script invocation to read: |
| 25 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | @#!/usr/local/bin/ruby@ |
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| 27 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | * Make sure public/dispatch.cgi has execute permissions via: |
| 28 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | @# chmod 755 public/dispatch.cgi@ |
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| 30 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | * Update the config/environment.rb file to force the rails environment to production, simply uncomment this line at the start of the file: |
| 31 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | @ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'@ |
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| 33 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | * Add your virtual host entry to the apache configuration file (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf). We installed redmine into the /live/redmine folder on our server. _Note: be sure to point your DocumentRoot to the public sub-folder!_ |
| 34 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | <pre> |
| 35 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | <VirtualHost *:80> |
| 36 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | ServerName redmine.<YOUR-DOMAIN>.com |
| 37 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | ServerAdmin webmaster@<YOUR-DOMAIN>.com |
| 38 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | DocumentRoot /live/redmine/public/ |
| 39 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | ErrorLog logs/redmine_error_log |
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| 41 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | <Directory "/live/redmine/public/"> |
| 42 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | Options Indexes ExecCGI FollowSymLinks |
| 43 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | Order allow,deny |
| 44 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | Allow from all |
| 45 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | AllowOverride all |
| 46 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | </Directory> |
| 47 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | </VirtualHost> |
| 48 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | </pre> |
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| 50 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | * Make sure your files, log, tmp, and vendor directories are all accessible (read/write) by user apache, group apache. We did that via a change of ownership: |
| 51 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | @# chown -R apache:apache files log tmp vendor@ |
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| 54 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | h3. Gotchas |
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| 56 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | Look for rogue versions of ruby binaries. We had an older version in /usr/bin/ruby as well as /usr/local/bin/ruby which caused a rather generic error message: |
| 57 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | _@Rails requires RubyGems >= 0.9.4. Please install RubyGems@_ |
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| 59 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | Helpful commands: |
| 60 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | @# which ruby@ - tells you which ruby binary is being run when the fully-qualified-filename has not been specified. |
| 61 | 1 | Cyber Sprocket | @# find / -name ruby@ - searches your entire system for any file named ruby, warning: can take a while on large filesystems. |