Install Redmine with git and svn support over https on Debian wheezy using the Debian repository¶

This a short (incomplete) howto for those who want to stay within the debian repository.
IMPORTANT: The Debian package is v1.4.4. That version is out of support and has multiple security issues.

• Basic install using postgresql backend
  See references for configuration
  Redmine version 1.4.4 is present the debian repository.
  

  aptitude install postgresql redmine redmine-pgsql redmine-plugin-botsfilter
  

• make sure all the necesarry modules for apache are loaded
  See references for configuration
  eg.
  

  aptitude install libdbd-pg-perl
  

• set up the vhosts
  See references for configuration
  • svn, apache enabled site
    in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled dir a site containing
    

    <VirtualHost *:443>
            ServerAdmin email@of.you
            DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine
            ServerName your.dns.org
    
            SSLEngine On
    
            SSLCertificateFile    /etc/apache2/ssl/yourcert.pem
            SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/yourcert.key
            SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/apache2/ssl/yourcert.certificate_chain # optional, can be self signed
    
            <Directory /var/www/redmine>
                    RailsBaseURI /
                    PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on
                    # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/misc/perf-tuning.html
                    AllowOverride None
            </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>
    

• in conf.d dir eg svn.conf
  

  # /svn location for users
  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 "Projectwerk Subversion Repository" 
  
      #read-only access    
      <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
          Require valid-user
          # Allow from [my server ip]
          Allow from putyourserver.ipadress
          Allow from 127.0.0.1
          # Allow from another-ip
          Satisfy any
      </Limit>
      # write access
      <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
          Require valid-user
      </LimitExcept>
      ErrorDocument 404 default
  
      # postgresqlconnection
      RedmineDSN "DBI:Pg:dbname=redmine_default;host=localhost" 
      RedmineDbUser "redmine" 
      RedmineDbPass "geheim" 
  </Location>
  

• git

in conf.d dir a git.conf file

PerlLoadModule Apache::Redmine

SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/git/
SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend/

<Location /git>
  AuthType Basic
  Require valid-user
  AuthName "Projectwerk Git Repository" 

  PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler
  PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler

  # postgresqlconnectie leggen
  RedmineDSN "DBI:Pg:dbname=redmine_default;host=localhost" 
  RedmineDbUser "redmine" 
  RedmineDbPass "geheim" 
</Location>

don't forget to restart apache

• set up cron repository creation
  See references for configuration
  • choose either only svn or git (one can only be the master repo)
  • if you want both u will need to register the second repo (git or svn) by hand on the redmine project site, for that you also need to make you use force.
    

    eg
    */5 * * * * root ruby /usr/share/redmine/extra/svn/reposman.rb --redmine localhost --scm Subversion --svn-dir /var/svn --owner www-data --url file:///var/svn --key=ARAZERAEZRZAER >> /var/log/redmine/reposman.log
    */30 * * * * root ruby /usr/share/redmine/extra/svn/reposman.rb -r localhost --scm Git --svn-dir /var/git --owner www-data --url /var/git --key=ARAZRRAEZRAEZRAEZ --verbose -f >> /var/log/redmine/reposman.log
    

• svn repo appear after enabling repository module on the site,
  if u also have the git cron added, then u can add the git repo manually,
  redmine will complain, but it exists. So checkout the git repo, add a file, commit and push to server, redmine will no longer complain.

References:
http://www.redmine.org/issues/4905
http://www.redmine.org/issues/3958
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.html
http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/HowTo_Install_Redmine_using_Debian_package
http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/HowToInstallRedmineOnUbuntuServer