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Redmine 2.0.3 on Centos 6 (i386) - detailed step by step¶
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- Redmine 2.0.3 on Centos 6 (i386) - detailed step by step
- Introduction
- Assumptions
- Installation Instructions
- turn off SE-Linux
- Install basic services (Apache, mySQL, and several tools...
- Configure basic services
- Configure passenger for Apache
- Get Redmine and install it
- Create Redmine database
- Configure Redmine
- mind the firewall!
- do a testdrive!
- activate FCGI and generate plugin directory
- Apache permissions!
- Getting Apache to work with FastCGI
- set the file path for Redmine
- Telling Apache to serve REDMINE
- Additional Config: E-Mail System
- Getting Subversion working
Introduction¶
our company was using the BITNAMI stack with Redmine and Subversion for our production environment. So the goal was about changing the server and migrating the data from v1.4 to v2.0.3 including getting all repositories and permissions moved. Doing this I tried to avoid webrick but rather use the fastCGI Module for Apache2.
Second was converting the logins from the built in database to LDAP (ActiveDirectory). Result of 2 days of work and googling is this little tutorial for setting up a mentioned box doing exactly this stuff. We are using CentOS 6 (i386) for that task. Please excuse my bad english for I am not used anymore to post long instruction manuals. Feel free to edit whatever you want. First of all, I tend to use vi so if you cannot operate vi I'd recommend to use any editor you like. If my instruction tells you to edit a file, you can find the sequence "..." which means, there is something above or below that line of text, that needs to be edited. Do not include those dots...
Assumptions¶
- You have a CentOS installation (minimum install) working and SSH access to your box
- You can access the internet
- You are logged in with your root account
Installation Instructions¶
My personal flavour is to use as less self compiled packages as necessary to get the package up and runnning. So I try to use as many repository packages as possible.
turn off SE-Linux¶
I spent a lot of time to find out, that se-linux can be a real party pooper. So I strongly recommend to disable that first before installing anything else. You can find a tutorial inside the howto section describing how to enable SELinux for your installation.
vi /etc/selinux/config
find the line with SELINUX and set it to
... SELINUX=disabled ...
Do a reboot NOW
Install basic services (Apache, mySQL, and several tools...¶
Now we are good to go to install some tools that might be useful during our installation... First of all, update your system and then install some packages
yum update yum -y install wget system-config-network system-config-firewall vim openssh-clients yum -y install httpd mysql mysql-server
After that continue and install all packages that might be necessary during the ruby and redmine installation.
yum -y install ruby rubygems yum -y install zlib-devel curl-devel openssl-devel httpd-devel apr-devel apr-util-devel mysql-devel gcc ruby-devel gcc-c++ make postgresql-devel ImageMagick-devel sqlite-devel perl-LDAP mod_perl perl-Digest-SHA
Configure basic services¶
let's configure the basic services, first of all, enable mySQL and Apache to start at bootup
chkconfig httpd on --level 2345 chkconfig mysqld on --level 2345
After configuring these, start them up
service httpd start service mysqld start
Now configure your new mySQL Installation and follow the instructions. Please note the mysql administrator password.
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation
Configure passenger for Apache¶
You need to install passenger for Apache using gem. Do the following on the command line
gem install passenger passenger-install-apache2-module
Please notice the installation messages! The next .conf file might use another path or version!
After this you need to generate a conf file with the displayed content
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/ruby.conf
During my installation the following content was displayed and needs to be entered in that file:
LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.15/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.15 PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby
Restart your apache with
service httpd restart
Get Redmine and install it¶
change to your home directory and download the latest version, expand it and copy it to the right place.
cd wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/76259/redmine-2.0.3.tar.gz tar xvfz redmine-2.0.3.tar.gz mkdir /var/www/redmine cp -av redmine-2.0.3/* /var/www/redmine
Next is to install bundler and let it install the production environment (with automatic resolve)
Now change to this directory - this is your new Redmine application directory!
cd /var/www/redmine gem install bundler bundle install --without development test
fetch some coffee... this might take some time...
Create Redmine database¶
Next to generate a new database for redmine... Log on to your datbase with the following command. If prompted for a password, enter it.
mysql -u root -p
I tend to create a local only user for that database, change the password 'very_secret' to a better one :)
create database redmine character set utf8; create user 'redmine'@'localhost' identified by 'very_secret'; grant all privileges on redmine.* to 'redmine'@'localhost'; quit;
Configure Redmine¶
First of all, copy the example config to a productive one and edit the config for your needs
cd /var/www/redmine/config cp database.yml.example database.yml vi /var/www/redmine/config/database.yml
Now find the production section inside this file and edit it like that
... production: adapter: mysql database: redmine host: localhost username: redmine password: very_secret encoding: utf8 ...
Head back to your application directory and generate a secret token
cd /var/www/redmine/ rake generate_secret_token
Now it is about time to generate the database structure (application directory!)
cd /var/www/redmine/ RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
fill the database with default values...
cd /var/www/redmine/ RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data
follow the instructions to select your language.
mind the firewall!¶
be aware that the firewall is enabled by default (which is good!). So if you know which ports to open, do it now or disable the firewall (just for testing purposes). I'd really recommend disabling the firewall during installation and enable it (opening ports) after you are sure that everything works.
system-config-firewall
use the onscreen menu to disable it or adjust the values.
do a testdrive!¶
I mentioned that I wanted not to use webrick, but for a testdrive, it'll work. This helps finding bugs and errors that might have occured before.
cd /var/www/redmine/ ruby script/rails server webrick -e production
Open up a browser and point it to: http://yoursystemname.yourdomain.com:3000 - the default username and password is 'admin'.
If everything is working, you are good to go! Kill webrick by hitting Ctrl+C.
activate FCGI and generate plugin directory¶
To activate the fcgi module you need to copy the example file and edit the very first line. During this step it is recommended to generate the default .htaccess config as well.
cd /var/www/redmine/public mkdir plugin_assets cp dispatch.fcgi.example dispatch.fcgi cp htaccess.fcgi.example .htaccess vi /var/www/redmine/public/dispatch.fcgi
now edit dispatch.fcgi and change it like this...
#!/usr/bin/ruby ...
Apache permissions!¶
this one is important, so don't miss that one...
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/redmine/
Getting Apache to work with FastCGI¶
Unfortunately the default Repo from CentOS cannot deliver the fcgid module so it is important to include a replo, that can deliver this package. I use the Fedora Repo so it is time to activate this... Again - this can change so please take care which repository to use.
rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm yum -y install mod_fcgid
set the file path for Redmine¶
I wanted to move the files to another location, so I decided to move them to /opt/redmine
mkdir /opt/redmine mkdir /opt/redmine/files chown -R apache:apache /opt/redmine
now edit the configuration
cd /var/www/redmine/config cp configuration.yml.example configuration.yml vi /var/www/redmine/config/configuration.yml
edit the path settings inside this file...
... attachments_storage_path: /opt/redmine/files ...
Telling Apache to serve REDMINE¶
The final step is to tell apache, where to find Redmine and what to do with it. Generate a new conf file for your virtual host to serve redmine...
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/redmine.conf
and enter the following config (adjust to your needs ;) )
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName yoursystemname.yourdomain.com ServerAdmin yourmail@yourdomain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine/public/ ErrorLog logs/redmine_error_log MaxRequestLen 20971520 <Directory "/var/www/redmine/public/"> Options Indexes ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from all AllowOverride all </Directory> </VirtualHost>
Restart Apache and cross your fingers, wheter you can access http://yoursystemname.yourdomain.com - redmine should be available right now...
service httpd restart
Additional Config: E-Mail System¶
in order to get emails sent to your clients, edit the configuration.yml and enter your server settings...
vi /var/www/redmine/config/configuration.yml
now find the settings for your server... the following settings describe an anonymous relay on an internal server. You need to remove the username and password line if you use anonymous sign on.
... default: # Outgoing emails configuration (see examples above) email_delivery: delivery_method: :smtp smtp_settings: address: mailserver.yourdomain.com port: 25 domain: yourdomain.com ...
Getting Subversion working¶
After getting Redmine working, it is time to get Subversion working... The goal is to integrate the repositories inside Redmine and host them on the same server...
Installing Packages for Subversion¶
Install the following packages
yum -y install mod_dav_svn subversion subversion-ruby
Linking authentication for Redmine¶
Redmine provides a perl module to handle Apache authentication on SVN DAV repositories. First step is to link that module into the search path
mkdir /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/Apache ln -s /var/www/redmine/extra/svn/Redmine.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/Apache/Redmine.pm
creating repository for subversion¶
create a path and set permissions for your SVN repo...
mkdir /opt/subversion chown -R apache:apache /opt/subversion
edit virtual host for apache to serve SVN with redmine¶
to get Apache working with subversion, you need to adjust (create) the virtual host file
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf
now enter/edit the following
PerlLoadModule Apache::Redmine <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath "/opt/subversion" SVNListParentPath on Order deny,allow Deny from all Satisfy any LimitXMLRequestBody 0 SVNPathAuthz off PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler AuthType Basic AuthName "Redmine SVN Repository" Require valid-user RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=redmine;host=localhost:3306" RedmineDbUser "redmine" RedmineDbPass "OuaWe0HXidr39X" # cache max. 50 passwords RedmineCacheCredsMax 50 </Location>
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Updated by Sven Nosse over 12 years ago · 3 revisions