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Stephan Schuberth, 2012-03-27 16:17


HowTo install Redmine on CentOS 5 or 6

Assumptions

  • Apache is up and running
  • Apache has previously been used and works quite well
  • MySQL is up and running
  • MySQL has previously been used and works quite well
  • Your are logged as root
  • The next steps are done successively without errors

Steps to take

Install gem and passenger dependencies

yum -y install zlib-devel curl-devel openssl-devel httpd-devel apr-devel apr-util-devel mysql-devel

Get Ruby

Commands to be used at the 'ftp>' Prompt are shown like this:

ftp> command

So, just type the command, no use in repeating the 'ftp>' prompt. :)

cd ~/Downloads  # YOUR FOLDER OF CHOICE
ftp ftp.ruby-lang.org

# START OF FTP SESSION
ftp> Anonymous  # USERLOGIN
ftp> 'none', just hit Enter  # NO PASSWORD
ftp> cd /pub/ruby
ftp> get ruby-1.8.7.pXXX.tar.gz  # XXX is currently 358, as of 03/2012
ftp> bye
# END OF FTP SESSION

tar zxvf ruby-1.8.7.pXXX.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.7.pXXX
./configure
make
make install
ruby -v
which ruby
cd ..

Get Gems 1.4.2 (does not work with Gems 1.5)

wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.4.2.tgz
tar zxvf rubygems-1.4.2.tgz
cd rubygems-1.4.2
ruby setup.rb
gem -v
which gem
cd ..

Install Passenger (requires gcc)

gem install passenger
passenger-install-apache2-module

An alternate method is to install mod_passenger RPM for Apache from the following location:
http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/

RHEL/CentOS 5

rpm -Uvh http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/5/passenger-release.noarch.rpm
yum install mod_passenger

RHEL/CentOS 6

rpm --import http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-stealthymonkeys.asc
yum install http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/6/passenger-release.noarch.rpm
yum install mod_passenger

Restart Apache

service httpd restart

Download Redmine

Download page: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1850

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/75597/redmine-1.3.0.tar.gz  # GET LATEST VERSION ON RUBYFORGE
tar zxvf redmine-1.3.0.tar.gz

Copy the folder to its HTTP document root folder

cp -av redmine-1.3.0/* /var/www/redmine

Configure Apache to host the documents

more information can be found here: HowTo configure Apache to run Redmine

Install Bundler

gem install bundler

Add the Bundler Boot and preinitializer code

For more info go to the Bundler site.

Create the Gemfile and register these gems in it

vi /var/www/redmine/Gemfile
# file: /var/www/redmine/Gemfile
source "http://rubygems.org" 
gem "rake", "0.8.3" 
gem "rack", "1.1.0" 
gem "i18n", "0.4.2" 
gem "rubytree", "0.5.2", :require => "tree" 
gem "RedCloth", "~>4.2.3", :require => "redcloth" # for CodeRay
gem "mysql" 
gem "coderay", "~>0.9.7" 
bundle install

Create the Redmine MySQL database

yum install mysql-server
chkconfig mysqld on
service mysqld start
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

For MySQL:
start the mysql client (mysql -u root -p) and enter the following commands

create database redmine character set utf8;
create user 'redmine'@'localhost' identified by 'my_password';
grant all privileges on redmine.* to 'redmine'@'localhost'; 

For versions of MySQL prior to 5.0.2 - skip the 'create user' step and instead:

 grant all privileges on redmine.* to 'redmine'@'localhost' identified by 'my_password';

Configure /var/www/redmine/config/database.yml (rename database.yml.example)

Set the production environment (optional)

Uncomment the following line in file redmine/config/environment.rb:

ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'

Generate the session store

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake generate_session_store

Migrate the database models

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake db:migrate

Load default data (optional)

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake redmine:load_default_data

Follow instructions.

Rename dispatch CGI files in /var/www/redmine/public/

mv dispatch.cgi.example dispatch.cgi
mv dispatch.fcgi.example dispatch.fcgi
mv dispatch.rb.example dispatch.rb

Edit .htaccess file for CGI dispatch configuration

mv htaccess.fcgi.example .htaccess

Chown and Chmod files for read/write access for the Apache user

cd ..
chown -R apache:apache redmine-1.x
chmod -R 755 redmine-1.x

Redmine should be fully installed now and fully usable

Enjoy!

Updated by Stephan Schuberth about 12 years ago · 36 revisions