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Christophe de Dinechin, 2018-02-02 11:53

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h1. Install Redmine 3.4 on RHEL7.4
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Here is a procedure that worked for me to install Redmine 3.5 on RHEL 7.4. These instructions work as for Feb 1st, 2018.
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I also chose to install with Postgres 10 to migrate an existing instance, although I believe it works with the default Postgres 9.2.
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h2. Dependencies
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Install the required packages.
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% sudo yum -y install zlib-devel curl-devel openssl-devel httpd-devel apr-devel apr-util-devel
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h2. Choice of database
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Install your database of choice. I've mostly tested with Postgres 10.
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h3. Postgres 10
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You can upgrade to Postgres 10 if you need for example to transfer an existing database.
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# More recent Postgres 10
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% sudo yum -y install https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/10/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat10-10-1.noarch.rpm
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% sudo yum install -y postgresql10-server postgresql10 postgres-devel
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% postgresql-setup initdb
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% sudo systemctl start postgresql-10
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% sudo systemctl enable postgresql-10
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Note that the @postgres-devel@ package is still required for the @bundle install@ step below, and I am not sure if that step works with Postgres 10.
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Like for Postgres 9, you need to add @trust@ for local IPv6 connexions in @/var/lib/pgsql/10/data/pg_hba.conf@:
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# TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD
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# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
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local   all             all                                     peer
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# IPv4 local connections:
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host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust
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# IPv6 local connections:
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host    all             all             ::1/128                 trust
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Check that you can connect to the database, then create the @redmine@ user and a @redmine@ database:
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% sudo su - postgres
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% psql
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postgres=# alter role postgres with encrypted password 'insert-your-postgres-password-here';
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postgres=# create user redmine with encrypted password 'insert-your-redmine-password-here';
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postgres=# create database redmine with encoding 'UTF-8' owner redmine;
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If you get an error related to the encoding:
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ERROR:  new encoding (UTF8) is incompatible with the encoding of the template database (SQL_ASCII)
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HINT:  Use the same encoding as in the template database, or use template0 as template.
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then you should explicitly use @template0@:
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postgres=# create database redmine with template=template0 encoding 'UTF-8' owner redmine;
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h3. Postgres 9.2.23
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Postgres 9.2.23 is what you get directly when installing with @yum@ in RHEL 7.4:
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# Default Postgres 9.2.23
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% sudo yum -y install postgresql postgresql-server postgresql-devel
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% postgresql-setup initdb
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% sudo systemctl start postgresql
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% sudo systemctl enable postgresql
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I have not been able to have Redmine connect to the database without altering @/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf@ to have @trust@ for local IPv6 connnexions:
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# TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD
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# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
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local   all             all                                     peer
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# IPv4 local connections:
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host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust
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# IPv6 local connections:
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host    all             all             ::1/128                 trust
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I suspect this is wrong, but I don't know how to do it "right", and that's also how it's configured in the Redmine docker containers I looked at.
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Create user and database like in the previous section.
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h3. For MySQL / MariaDB
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Installing and starting the database server
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# MariaDB (formerly MySQL)
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% sudo yum -y install mariadb mariadb-devel
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% sudo systemctl start mariadb
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% sudo systemctl enable mariadb
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Then you can setup the original database:
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% mysql -u root -p
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MariaDB [(none)]> set password for 'root'@'localhost' = password('insert-your-password-here');
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MariaDB [(none)]> create database redmine character set utf8;
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MariaDB [(none)]> create user 'redmine'@'localhost' identified by 'somepass';
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MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on redmine.* to 'redmine'@'localhost';
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Note: The rest of this setup assumes Postgres, will need to be updated with MariaDB instructions as well.
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h2. Upgrade Ruby
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The default @ruby@ is 2.0.0p648. If you keep that version, @gem install passenger@ fails.
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% cd /usr/local/src
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% wget https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.5/ruby-2.5.0.tar.gz
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% tar xvfz ruby-2.5.0.tar.gz
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% cd ruby-2.5.0/
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% ./configure
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% make
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% make install
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Verify that you have Ruby 2.5 installed after that: 
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% ruby -v
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ruby 2.5.0p0 (2017-12-25 revision 61468) [x86_64-linux]
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h2. Install passenger and Gem bundler:
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With Ruby 2.5, we can install Passenger:
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% gem install passenger
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gem install passenger
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Fetching: rack-2.0.3.gem (100%)
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Successfully installed rack-2.0.3
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Fetching: passenger-5.2.0.gem (100%)
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Building native extensions. This could take a while...
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Successfully installed passenger-5.2.0
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Parsing documentation for rack-2.0.3
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Installing ri documentation for rack-2.0.3
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Parsing documentation for passenger-5.2.0
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Installing ri documentation for passenger-5.2.0
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Done installing documentation for rack, passenger after 53 seconds
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2 gems installed
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Install Gem bundler:
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% gem install bundler
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Fetching: bundler-1.16.1.gem (100%)
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Successfully installed bundler-1.16.1
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Parsing documentation for bundler-1.16.1
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Installing ri documentation for bundler-1.16.1
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Done installing documentation for bundler after 5 seconds
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1 gem installed
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h2. Check out Redmine
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Check out the version of Redmine you want, here with version 3.4:
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% cd /var/www
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% svn co http://svn.redmine.org/redmine/branches/3.4-stable redmine
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Add a @redmine@ user and transfer ownership of the @/var/www/redmine@ files to it:
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% useradd redmine
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h2. Database configuration
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The database configuration for Redmine is in @/var/www/redmine/config/database.yml@. There is a template in that directory which you can edit.
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% cd /var/www/redmine/config/
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Edit @database.yml@ to contain the correct information regarding your installation. For Postgres:
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  adapter: postgresql
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  database: redmine
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  host: localhost
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  username: redmine
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  password: insert-your-password-here
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(Note that you always have the choice of running the database in some other host than @localhost@)
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h2. Install dependencies using the Gem bundler
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This step will look at the dependencies specified in the @Gemfile@:
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% bundle install
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You may have a message about YARD recommending you use the following command:
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% yard config --gem-install-yri
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Updated ~/.gemrc: 'gem: --document=yri'
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h2. Setup the production environment 
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Update @/var/www/redmine/config/environment.rb@, adding the following statement:
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ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'
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Generate a secret token:
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% RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake generate_secret_token
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Run the database migration step:
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% RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake db:migrate
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h2. Start the server
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You can now attempt to run the application:
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% sudo su - redmine
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% /usr/local/bin/ruby bin/rails server -b 0.0.0.0 -e production
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=> Booting WEBrick
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=> Rails 4.2.8 application starting in production on http://0.0.0.0:3000
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=> Run `rails server -h` for more startup options
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=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
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[2018-02-01 12:49:02] INFO  WEBrick 1.4.2
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[2018-02-01 12:49:02] INFO  ruby 2.5.0 (2017-12-25) [x86_64-linux]
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[2018-02-01 12:49:02] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=21470 port=3000
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Note that you may want to open the firewall for that port using @firewall-config@.