Redmine

Your rails is too old for current Redmine (I think 0.9 needs 2.3.5).

Also: what are you trying to use to server redmine? From what I see, you're using cgi, I'd recommend mod_passenger if that is an option for you.

I believe that I have passenger installed. I downloaded the gem with ruby and followed the steps from the guide to install this.
I've also added the entry in the config file to load the module.

But about the rails, if I do not have 2.1.2 installed, the rake commands complain about it.

What version of redmine have you installed? Or from what svn branch and revision?

I've just removed everything and downloaded the version 0.9 as you mentioned from the installation guide.
I've reconfigured everything according the guide, recreated the database and all.

All rake commands worked without a problem, so my database is populated. Ran the tests with the webrick server and that all seemed to work as well.

Now I've configured apache and when I try to visit the site again I recieve the error message that the rails application failed to start properly. (At least this is a step further :))

When I take a look at the error log I recieved the following two errors:

[error][client 192.168.44.1] (13)Permission denied: exec of '/opt/redmine/dispatch.cgi' failed
[error][client 192.168.44.1] Premature end of script headers: dispatch.cgi


I've tried running the command public/dispatcher.cgi as mentioned in the installation guide and this is what I recieve as output:

public/dispatch.cgi
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:119:Warning: Gem::Dependecy#version_requirements is deprecated and will be removed on or after august 2010. Use #requirement
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/dispatcher.rb:24: warning: already initialized constant Dispatcher
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.35/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:22: in '__send__': undefined method 'env_table' for nul:NulClass (NoMethodError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:22:in 'dispatch_cgi'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:101:in 'dispatch_cgi'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:27:in 'dispatch'
from public/dispatch.cgi:11


I hope this information helps. If I need to fetch something or give more information I'm happy to. I really wish to get redmine running and start using it here at work instead of the tools we have right now.

Ok, if you want to use passenger, just remove the .htaccess file, as that is needed only for cgi operations (passenger is not cgi :-) ). Reload apache after that and try it again.

Done, but now I get all the files again as before and not the redmine application (see attached screenshot)

Also, it seems I have a problem with passenger. I've looked into the error-log from apache itself and found the following entries:

[notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd running as context unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
[notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[error] *** Passenger could not be initialized base of this error: Cannot create FIFO file /tmp/passenger.2171/.guard: Permission denied(13)
[notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication...
[notice] Digest: done
[error] *** Passenger could not be initialized because of this error: Cannot create FIFO file /tmp/passenger.2171/.guard: Permission denied(13)
[notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 Phusion_Passenger/2.2.11 SVN/1.6.9 configured -- resuming normal operations


I'm not experienced in Linux, but something tells me that is the root of the problem ?

It is. See http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html#_the_apache_error_log_says_that_the_spawn_manager_script_does_not_exist_or_that_it_does_not_have_permission_to_execute_it and/or google for mentions of installing passenger on fedora12.

I will take a look it later and see if I can find a compromise somewhere.
For now I have put SELinux into permissive mode and the application is working fine without a problem.