Redmine

Very nice document! Imo it would be better to supply a pdf document however.

Hans-Peter

François K. wrote:

Hello,

I wrote a documentation about my last installation of Redmine on a Debian server - for a production environment - because I think this is the missing intelligence in the official documentation.

Feel free to use it in the wiki or simply as a starting point for your own installation.

François.

François,

I follow your guide for Debian and don´t work. My browser receive list file in /usr/local/lib/redmine-0.8/public.
Any idea ???

Iuri Souza wrote:

I follow your guide for Debian and don´t work. My browser receive list file in /usr/local/lib/redmine-0.8/public.
Any idea ???

If you see the files, maybe the mod_passenger doesn't work or be activated.
To check this, you need to activate the mod_info.

For this:
cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
ln -s ../mods-available/info.load
ln -s ../mods-available/info.conf

Now, if you make your tests from an other computer, you need to edit the info.conf file and add a line like this one to allow the connection from this computer:
Allow from 192.168.2.2 (with the IP address of the computer)

Then reload apache (/etc/init.d/apache2 reload) and use your browser to go to the url /server-info on your server.

You will see the mods loaded on your server: is mod_passenger visible? is its configuration correct?

Here's a pdf version

Thank you Gordon for the PDF version!

I have updated my installation guide to integrate Subversion.
Here is the result (in both docx and pdf this time :)

François,

I had the same problem. The passenger module is on, but the problem persist.

Any idea?

Thank You!!!

Hello,

First of all you can check the "/var/log/apache2/errors.log" log file of apache. He will contain the passenger errors.

But I'm quite sure that the error came from my doc. In fact, it contains an error on pages 5 and 8.

Use

PassengerRoot /usr/local/lib/passenger

PassengerRoot /usr/local/lib/passenger-2.2.1

I hope this help :)

François,

I followed your guide again, and now works fine! I must have done something wrong in first time.

Thank you again!

You're welcome !

There is now a package for redmine in debian/sid.
It will go to testing, then i hope backports too, in a few weeks.

I followed the instructions on a testserver (Debian under Virtualbox), and all went well. Now, on a physical server I got stuck on the passenger part. When running "./passenger-install-apache2-module", the process says that "rack" could not be found. I installed rack with the following command: "/usr/bin/gem install rack", and installation went fine. When I run the passenger command again, it still can't find the rack software. Anyone with an idea/solution?

It looks like the passenger version has changed and "rack" is now required but doesn't install properly. To use the version of passenger that is listed in the instructions I replaced:
gem install passenger
with
gem install passenger -v=2.2.1

Thanks Chris, that solved it! I used "gem install passenger -v=2.2.5".

I get this error, when installing rails.

projects:~# aptitude install ruby rake rubygems
projects:~# aptitude install libmysql-ruby libopenssl-ruby
projects:~# gem install rails –v=2.1.2
ERROR:  Error installing rails:
        actionpack requires rack (~> 1.0.0, runtime)
ERROR:  could not find gem –v=2.1.2 locally or in a repository

rails package is in debian,
in stable : rails 2.1.0
in testing/unstable : rails 2.2.3

aptitude install rails

!
Also be aware that redmine 0.9.0 is (the release candidate) is going to be uploaded
in debian/unstable very soon. It'll be rails 2.2.3 compatible, and using backports,
will be also available on stable.
Regards,
Jérémy.

Hey thanks for your reply

i did

projects:~# apt-get install rails
projects:~# gem install -v=2.1.2 rails

Did you try "gem install rails -v=2.1.2" ?

Yeah, look above :)

but i got it all working.

but thx for all your replies

Thanks for the guide! An alternative (a bit simpler) approach is described here:

http://madpropellerhead.com/random/20100820-installing-redmine-on-debian-with-apache

It worked exactly as described at least today, so it's as up to date as it can be :)

Hi,
i just uploaded redmine 1.0.1-1 to debian/unstable.
I also fixed several debian-only bugs.
Hopefully it'll be accepted into squeeze.

Regards,
Jérémy.

Jérémy Lal wrote:

Hi,
i just uploaded redmine 1.0.1-1 to debian/unstable.
I also fixed several debian-only bugs.
Hopefully it'll be accepted into squeeze.

Thanks for your efforts, they're appreciated!

Just for curiosity, what kind of debian-only bugs there are/were?

Best Regards,
Joonas

Mainly, a minimal patch for libi18n-ruby 0.4.1 support.
Otherwise debconf/docs fixes.

François K. wrote:

Hello,

I wrote a documentation about my last installation of Redmine on a Debian server - for a production environment - because I think this is the missing intelligence in the official documentation.

Feel free to use it in the wiki or simply as a starting point for your own installation.

François.

Hi François,

I've just used your guide as the base for rewrite an other for redmine 1.1 . Can I publish this on my website and here if you according to me.

Let me know.

Regards,
Marco

You will need an Internet connected Windows PC or server to get started. If you don’t have an Internet-enabled PC, you can do the install on an Internet connected PC and move the Ruby folder tree to your target machine, but I’ll assume you live in the 21st century and do have Internet connectivity.

1. Download version 1.8 of Ruby – the link is to the “all-in-one” installer for Windows. You need version 1.8, not 1.9 as Redmine only works on 1.8 right now.
   2. Set up so Ruby’s “bin” folder is in your system or command prompt path. You should be able to type “ruby” at the command prompt and not get any “file not found” errors.
   3. Create yourself some sort of “Ruby apps” folder and open a command prompt at that location, e.g. C:\Ruby\Apps or something
   4. At the command prompt: “gem install rails“
   5. At the command prompt: “gem install mongrel“
   6. Download the latest stable version of Redmine and unzip into a subfolder of your Ruby apps dir (e.g. C:\Ruby\Apps\Redmine)
   7. Configure the database.yml for Redmine to point to a database for your Redmine instance to use (I’ll leave that up to you)
   8. In the Redmine folder, at the command prompt: “rake db:migrate“
   9. If you’re using Redmine v0.8.7 or above, at the command prompt: “rake generate_session_store”
  10. Test your Redmine installation is working, at the command prompt: “mongrel_rails start“, then hit http://localhost:[port]/ in your browser where [port] is the port Mongrel started with. Kill the server with Ctrl+C once you’ve verified Redmine is working.
  11. At the command prompt: “gem install win32-service“
  12. At the command prompt: “gem install mongrel_service“
  13. Install Redmine as a Windows service, at the command prompt: “mongrel_rails service::install -N Redmine -c [your redmine folder] -p [portno] -e production“, replacing [your redmine folder] with the full path to the Redmine folder in the filesystem, and the [portno] being the port you’d like redmine to server on, e.g. 80 for standard http port 80.
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