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HowTo Install Redmine 1.3.x with Mercurial and Subversion on Ubuntu Server 10.04¶

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HowTo Install Redmine 1.3.x with Mercurial and Subversion on Ubuntu Server 10.04

Pre-install¶

Set the timezone

$ dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Select your timezone and exit.

Set your hostname

$ sudo nano /etc/hostname

Enter your server name and save.

eg.

redmine

Map your fully qualified domain name (FQDN) to localhost

$ sudo nano /etc/hosts

Add a line mapping local host to your FQDN and hostname and save. 

eg. 

127.0.0.1 redmine.domain.com redmine

Redmine Installation¶

Install the LAMP stack
```
$ sudo tasksel install lamp-server
```

Install the required packages

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion libmysqlclient-dev libdigest-sha1-perl libgemplugin-ruby libgemplugin-ruby1.8 libruby-extras libruby1.8-extras rails rake ruby rubygems rubygems1.8 ruby1.8-dev libopenssl-ruby1.8

-->Update rubygems
In some cases the your system will still be using rubygems 1.5, but you will need a later version. Check which version is installed by typing:

$ gem --version

If the version is 1.5: update rubygems

gem install rubygems-update
cd /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin
sudo ./update_rubygems

-->Install necessary gems

$ sudo gem install rails -v=2.3.14 --no-ri --no-rdoc
$ sudo gem install rake -v=0.8.7 --no-ri --no-rdoc
$ sudo gem uninstall rake -v=0.9.2.2 
$ sudo gem install i18n -v=0.4.2 --no-ri --no-rdoc
$ sudo gem install mysql --no-ri --no-rdoc

Download Redmine into /user/share/redmine directory

$ sudo svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/1.3-stable /usr/share/redmine

Create an empty MySQL database and accompanying user named redmine for example.

$ mysql -u root -p
(enter the mysql root user password)
> create database redmine character set utf8;
> create user 'redmine'@'localhost' identified by '[password]';
> grant all privileges on redmine.* to 'redmine'@'localhost' identified by '[password]';
> exit

Copy config/database.yml.example to config/database.yml and edit this file in order to configure your database settings for "production" environment.

$ sudo cp /usr/share/redmine/config/database.yml.example /usr/share/redmine/config/database.yml

$ sudo nano /usr/share/redmine/config/database.yml

Modify to the following and save (ctrl+x)

production:
  adapter: mysql
  socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
  database: redmine
  host: localhost
  username: redmine
  password: [password]
  encoding: utf8

Generate a session store secret.

$ cd /usr/share/redmine

$ sudo rake generate_session_store

Create the database structure, by running the following command under the application root directory:
```
$ cd /usr/share/redmine

$ sudo rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV="production" 
```
Insert default configuration data in database, by running the following command:
```
$ sudo RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data
```

Setting up permissions

$ cd /usr/share/redmine
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data files log tmp public/plugin_assets

Test using the webrick web server

$ cd /usr/share/redmine

$ ruby script/server webrick -e production

Point your web browser at http://[my server ip]:3000

You should now see the application welcome page.

Apache Integration¶

Install the required packages

$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger

Add a symbolic link to the public redmine web directory

$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/redmine/public /var/www/redmine

Configure Passanger to run as www-data

$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf

Add the follow line and save (ctrl+x)

PassengerDefaultUser www-data

Create a new Apache site file

 
$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/redmine

Add the following lines and save (ctrl+x)

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www
        ServerName myservername

        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule   ^/$  /redmine  [R]

        <Directory /var/www/redmine>
                RailsBaseURI /redmine
                PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

For SSL add the following text instead

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www
        ServerName myservername

        SSLEngine On
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/redmine.pem

        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule   ^/$  /redmine  [R]

        <Directory /var/www/redmine>
                RailsBaseURI /redmine
                PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Enable the Redmine website

$ sudo a2dissite default
$ sudo a2ensite redmine

Enable the Passenger and Rewite modules and restart Apache

$ sudo a2enmod passenger
$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Test the setup

Open up your favorite web browser and goto

http://[my site or ip]/redmine

Mercurial Integration¶

Install the latest Mercurial release

$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mercurial-ppa/releases
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mercurial libapache-dbi-perl libapache2-mod-perl2

Create the hg web directory
```
$ sudo mkdir -p /var/hg/repos
```

Create the web cgi script file

$ sudo nano /var/hg/hgwebdir.cgi

Add the following and save

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
from mercurial.hgweb.hgwebdir_mod import hgwebdir
import mercurial.hgweb.wsgicgi as wsgicgi
application = hgwebdir('hgweb.config')
wsgicgi.launch(application)

Create the cgi web config file

$ sudo nano /var/hg/hgweb.config

Add the following and save

[paths]
/=/var/hg/repos/**

[web]
allow_push = *
push_ssl = false
allowbz2 = yes
allowgz = yes
allowzip = yes

Setup permissions

$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/hg
$ sudo chmod gu+x /var/hg/hgwebdir.cgi

Create a Apache config file

$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/hg.config

Add the following and save
# Use PerlLoadModule Apache2::Redmine when using apache2, or else you might get weird errors trying to authenticate.

PerlLoadModule Apache::Redmine
ScriptAlias /hg  "/var/hg/hgwebdir.cgi" 
<Location /hg  >
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Redmine Mercurial Repository" 
    Require valid-user

    #Redmine auth
    PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler
    PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler
    RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=redmine;host=localhost" 
    RedmineDbUser "redmine" 
    RedmineDbPass "password" 
</Location>

Add a symbolic link to Redmine.pm

$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/redmine/extra/svn/Redmine.pm /usr/lib/perl5/Apache/Redmine.pm
$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/redmine/extra/svn/Redmine.pm /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Redmine.pm

Enable the required Apache modules and restart Apache
```
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
```

Create a new test repository and project in Redmine

$ sudo hg init /var/hg/repos/test
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/hg/repos/test

Create a new project with and identifier 'test'

In the project Settings > Repository set
SCM: Mercurial
Path to repository: /var/hg/repos/test
Press the 'Create' button

Goto to the Repository tab of the test project

View the test repository in the web browser
```
> http://[my site name]/hg/test
```

Subversion Integration¶

Install the latest Mercurial release

$ sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn libapache-dbi-perl libapache2-mod-perl2

Create the svn repository directory
```
$ sudo mkdir /var/svn
```

Setup permissions

$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn

Add a symbolic link to Redmine.pm

$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/redmine/extra/svn/Redmine.pm /usr/lib/perl5/Apache/Redmine.pm
$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/redmine/extra/svn/Redmine.pm /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Redmine.pm

Create a Apache config file

$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/svn.config

Add the following and save

PerlLoadModule Apache::Redmine
<Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath "/var/svn" 
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Satisfy any

    PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler
    PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Redmine Subversion Repository" 

    #read-only access    
    <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
        Require valid-user
        Allow from [my server ip]
        # Allow from another-ip
         Satisfy any
    </Limit>
        # write access
        <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
        Require valid-user
    </LimitExcept>

    ## for mysql
    RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=redmine;host=localhost" 
    RedmineDbUser "redmine" 
    RedmineDbPass "password" 
</Location>

Enable the required Apache modules and restart Apache

$ sudo a2enmod dav_svn
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Create a new test repository

$ sudo svnadmin create /var/svn/test
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/test

Automate Repository Creation¶

Enable WS for repository management and generate and API key

* From the Redmine Administration menu select Settings
* Click on the Repositories tab
* Enable the 'Enable WS for repository management' checkbox
* Click the 'Generate a key' link 
* Press the 'Save' button

Modify reposman.rb

$ sudo nano /usr/share/redmine/extra/svn/reposman.rb

Add the following to module SCM and save  

  module Mercurial
    def self.create(path)
      Dir.mkdir path
      Dir.chdir(path) do
        system_or_raise "hg init" 
      end
    end
  end

Schedule the reposman.rb script to run every minute

$ sudo nano /etc/cron.d/redmine

Add one of the following lines (not both) and save.
(Note: you will need to replace [my API key] with the API key you generated in step 1)
.
To create subversion repositories add:

* * * * * root ruby /usr/share/redmine/extra/svn/reposman.rb --redmine localhost/redmine --scm Subversion --svn-dir /var/svn --owner www-data --url file:///var/svn --key=[my API key] >> /var/log/reposman.log

OR to create Mecurial repositories add:

* * * * * root ruby /usr/share/redmine/extra/svn/reposman.rb --redmine localhost/redmine --scm Mercurial --svn-dir /var/hg/repos --owner www-data --url /var/hg/repos --key=[my API key] >> /var/log/reposman.log

Automatic refresh of repositories in Redmine¶

Schedule the fetch_changesets script to run every 15 minutes

$ sudo nano /etc/cron.d/redmine

Add the following line and save

*/15 * * * * root ruby /usr/share/redmine/script/runner "Repository.fetch_changesets" -e production > /dev/null 2>&1

Setup a changegroup script on the Mercurial server to run fetch_changesets after each push to a Mercurial repository

$ sudo nano /var/hg/changegroup-hook

Add the following text and save
(Note: you will need to replace [your API key] the API key you generated in Redmine

#!/bin/sh
curl "http://localhost/redmine/sys/fetch_changesets?key=[your API key]"  > /dev/null 2>&1

Setup permissions

$ sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/hg/changegroup-hook
$ sudo chmod ug+x /var/hg/changegroup-hook

Modify the hgweb.config file

$ sudo nano /var/hg/hgweb.config

Add the following section and save

[hooks]
changegroup = /var/hg/changegroup-hook

Email Integration¶

Install and configure Sendmail

$ sudo apt-get install sendmail
$ sudo sendmailconfig

(Answer Yes to all questions which you will be asked)

Update the Redmine configuration file

$ sudo nano /usr/share/redmine/config/configuration.yml

Add the following text and save

 production:
   email_delivery:
     delivery_method: :sendmail

Backup to Amazon S3 cloud storage¶

Create an account at http://aws.amazon.com/
Create a S3 bucket using the aws management console https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home
View your Access Keys at https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account/index.html?action=access-key

Build and install fuse to 2.8.4

$ sudo wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/fuse_2.8.4.orig.tar.gz
$ cd fuse-2.8.4/
$ tar xzf fuse_2.8.4.orig.tar.gz 
$ sudo ./configure 
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install

Build and install s3fs 1.61

$ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
$ wget http://s3fs.googlecode.com/files/s3fs-1.61.tar.gz
$ tar xzf s3fs-1.61.tar.gz 
$ cd s3fs-1.61/
$ sudo ./configure 
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install

Create a s3fs password file
```
$ sudo nano /etc/passwd-s3fs
```
Added your 'Access Key ID' and 'Secret Access Key' separated by a colon
```
[accessKeyId]:[secretAccessKey]
```
Setup permissions
```
sudo chmod 640 /etc/passwd-s3fs
```
Create mounting point
```
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/s3
```

Mount your S3 bucket

$ sudo s3fs [your-s3-bucket-name] /mnt/s3 -ouse_cache=/tmp -o allow_other

Test it worked and unmount

$ echo hello > /mnt/s3/welcome.txt
$ ls /mnt/s3
$ sudo umount /mnt/s3

Create upstart job to mount the s3 file system start up

$ sudo nano /etc/init/s3.conf

Add the following text and save.

description "Mount Amazon S3 file system on system start" 

start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)
stop on runlevel [016]

respawn

exec s3fs -f [your-s3-bucket-name] /mnt/s3 -ouse_cache=/tmp -o allow_other

Start the s3 job
```
sudo start s3
```

Test it worked

$ echo hello > /mnt/s3/welcome2.txt
$ ls /mnt/s3

Create the backup script file

$ sudo apt-get install mailutils
$ sudo nano /usr/local/bin/backup-redmine.sh

Add the following text and save.

#!/bin/bash
# Script to backup Redmine files to a mounted storage device
# with daily, weekly, monthly backup rotation

# Sysadmin email address
sysadmin_email="admin@domain.com" 

# What to backup
db_dump_file="/usr/share/redmine/db/redmine-database-dump.sql" 

backup_files="$db_dump_file /usr/share/redmine/files /var/hg /var/svn /etc/apache2/conf.d/hg.conf" 
backup_files="$backup_files /etc/apache2/sites-available/redmine /etc/init/s3.conf /etc/cron.d/redmine" 
backup_files="$backup_files /usr/local/bin/backup-redmine.sh" 

# Where to backup to
backup_dir="/mnt/s3" 

# Set database access
redmine_db_name="redmine" 
redmine_db_user="redmine" 
redmine_db_password="password" 

# Encryption
encrypt="true" 
secret_passphrase="password" 

# Set rotation schedule in units of days ( 0 = disabled )
daily_remove_older_than=6
weekly_remove_older_than=31
monthly_remove_older_than=62

# Redirect stderr to a log file
error_log="/tmp/backup-redmine.log" 
exec 6>&2
exec 2>$error_log

on_exit() {
    # Restore IO output
    exec 2>&6  6>&-

    # Check for errors
    if [ -s "$error_log" ]; then
        logger -t "$0" -s "#### Backup Failed ####" 
        logger -t "$0" -s -f "$error_log" 
        cat "$error_log" | mail -s "Backup failed!"  $sysadmin_email
     else
        logger -t "$0" -s "Backup Complete" 
    fi

    # Clean up
    rm -f $error_log
}

trap on_exit EXIT SIGHUP SIGINT SIGQUIT SIGTERM

# Setup variables for the archive filename.
hostname=$(hostname -s)
date_stamp=`date +%Y-%m-%d`                    # Date p e.g 2011-12-31
date_day_of_week=`date +%A`                    # Day of the week e.g. Monday
date_day_of_month=`date +%e`                   # Date of the Month e.g. 27

# Is the  backup directory mounted?
mount | grep -sq "$backup_dir" 
if  [ $? != 0 ]; then
   echo "backup destination ${backup_dir} is not mounted" >&2
  exit 1
fi

# Delete old archives
find "${backup_dir}" -mtime +"$monthly_remove_older_than" -type f -name "${hostname}_fullbackup_monthly*" -exec rm {} \;
find "${backup_dir}" -mtime +"$weekly_remove_older_than" -type f -name "${hostname}_fullbackup_weekly*" -exec rm {} \;
find "${backup_dir}" -mtime +"$daily_remove_older_than" -type f -name "${hostname}_fullbackup_daily*" -exec rm {} \;

# Determine the backup schedule
if [[ $monthly_remove_older_than -gt "0" && $date_day_of_month == "1" ]]; then
    schedule="monthly" 
elif [[ $weekly_remove_older_than -gt "0" && $date_day_of_week == "Saturday" ]]; then
    schedule="weekly" 
elif [[ $daily_remove_older_than -gt "0" ]]; then
    schedule="daily" 
else
    echo "Invalid backup rotation schedule" >&2
    exit 1
fi

archive_file="${backup_dir}/${hostname}_fullbackup_${schedule}_${date_stamp}.tgz" 

# Dump the redmine database
rm -f "${db_dump_file}" 
mysqldump --user="${redmine_db_name}" --password="${redmine_db_password}" "${redmine_db_name}" > $db_dump_file

# Write the archive file to the backup directory
if [ $encrypt == "true" ]; then
    tar czP ${backup_files} | gpg -c -z 0 --yes --no-use-agent --passphrase="${secret_passphrase}" -o "${archive_file}.gpg" 
else
    tar czfP "${archive_file}" ${backup_files}
fi

if [ -s "$error_log" ]; then
    exit 1
else
    exit 0
fi

Setup permissions

sudo chmod 770 /usr/local/bin/backup-redmine.sh

Schedule the backup to run once a day at 12am

$ sudo nano /etc/cron.d/redmine

Add the following line and save

0 0 * * * root /usr/local/bin/backup-redmine.sh

Test the script

$ sudo backup-redmine.sh
$ ls -R /mnt/s3

Files (9)

Updated by Alexey Porotnikov about 12 years ago · 23 revisions

redmine (491 Bytes) redmine		Dimitry Profus, 2011-09-24 05:25
redmine.cron (381 Bytes) redmine.cron		Dimitry Profus, 2011-09-24 05:25
s3.conf (224 Bytes) s3.conf		Dimitry Profus, 2011-09-24 05:25
backup-redmine.sh (3.53 KB) backup-redmine.sh		Dimitry Profus, 2011-09-24 05:25
changegroup-hook (96 Bytes) changegroup-hook		Dimitry Profus, 2011-09-24 05:25
hg.conf (429 Bytes) hg.conf		Dimitry Profus, 2011-09-24 05:25
hgweb.config (158 Bytes) hgweb.config		Dimitry Profus, 2011-09-24 05:25
hgwebdir.cgi (2.23 KB) hgwebdir.cgi		Dimitry Profus, 2011-09-24 05:25
installingmysqlgem.txt (5.19 KB) installingmysqlgem.txt		Peter Pan, 2012-07-06 19:20

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HowTo Install Redmine 1.3.x with Mercurial and Subversion on Ubuntu Server 10.04¶

Pre-install¶

Redmine Installation¶

Apache Integration¶

Mercurial Integration¶

Subversion Integration¶

Automate Repository Creation¶

Automatic refresh of repositories in Redmine¶

Email Integration¶

Backup to Amazon S3 cloud storage¶