Redmine installation on Ubuntu Jaunty

So, in the previous entry I gave instructions on installing Gitorious on Ubuntu Jaunty. This post will tell how to install Redmine on the same box. It will also use Passenger and MySql so no extra software is installed.

In case you only want to install Redmine, I will also tell which steps from the Gitorious installation instructions must also be done.

Install packages

1. aptitude install ruby-pkg-tools ruby1.8-dev libapache-dbi-perl libapache2-mod-perl2 libdigest-sha1-perl

Redmine only: also do steps 1,2, 4 and 8.

Fetch Redmine

1. cd /var/www/
2. wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/56909/redmine-0.8.4.tar.gz
3. gunzip redmine-0.8.4.tar.gz && tar xvf redmine-0.8.4.tar
4. mv redmine-0.8.4 redmine

Create user

1. adduser --system --home /var/www/redmine --no-create-home --group --shell /bin/bash redmine
2. chown -R redmine:redmine /var/www/redmine

Configure Apache

1. Copy attached redmine.conf file to /etc/apache2/conf.d/redmine.conf.

Redmine only: you also need to do steps 1-4, 7 and 9. SSL is only not needed by Redmine.

Create database and database user

1. mysql -p
2. create database redmine character set utf8;
3. create user 'redmine'@'localhost' identified by '[password]';
4. grant all privileges on redmine.* to 'redmine'@'localhost';
5. quit
6. Copy attached database.yml to /var/www/redmine/config/database.yml. Change the password to the one you selected in previous step.

Bootstrap Redmine

1. cd /var/www/redmine
2. rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV="production"
3. rake redmine:load_default_data RAILS_ENV="production"

Setup email

1. Copy attached file email.redmine.yml to /var/www/redmine/config/email.yml. Fix domain name.
   

Finally restart Apache one more time. Default admin user name and password is admin/admin.

Attachments

redmine.conf:

Alias /redmine /var/www/redmine/public

<directory /var/www/redmine/public>
PassengerAppRoot /var/www/redmine

RailsBaseURI /redmine
</directory>

database.yml:

production:
adapter: mysql
database: redmine
host: localhost
username: redmine
password: [password]

email.yml:

production:
delivery_method: :smtp
smtp_settings:
address: 127.0.0.1
port: 25
domain: DOMAIN
authentication: :login
user_name: redmine
password: redmine