Redmine

h1. HowTo Install Redmine 5.0.x on Ubuntu 20.04 with Apache2

h2. Installing dependencies

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# update & upgrade 

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

# install required packages

sudo apt install -y apache2 ruby ruby-dev build-essential libapache2-mod-passenger libmysqlclient-dev

# if you want to install mysql server locally

sudo apt install -y mysql-server

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h2. Download & Extract Redmine

Go grab the latest version from [[Download|here]]. For this example it will be 5.0.1

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# download and extract

cd

wget https://redmine.org/releases/redmine-5.0.1.tar.gz

cd /opt

sudo tar -xvzf ~/redmine-5.0.1.tar.gz

# symlink to remove version reference

sudo ln -s redmine-5.0.1 redmine

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h2. Configure database

Create a database and create a user for redmine. Example for localhost installation below:

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sudo mysql

mysql> CREATE DATABASE redmine CHARACTER SET utf8mb4;

mysql> CREATE USER 'redmine'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secretPassword';

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON redmine.* TO 'redmine'@'localhost';

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

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