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Etienne Massip, 2012-10-23 11:48
Installing Redmine¶
- Table of contents
- Installing Redmine
- Requirements
- Redmine Version
- Installation procedure
- Step 1 - Redmine application
- Step 2 - Dependencies installation
- Step 3 - Create an empty database and accompanying user
- Step 4 - Configuration
- Step 5 - Session store secret generation
- Step 6 - Database schema objects creation
- Step 7 - Database default data set
- Step 8 - File system permissions
- Step 9 - Test the installation
- Step 10 - Logging into the application
- Configuration
- Logging configuration
- Backups
- Notes on Windows installation
- Alternative to manual installation
This is the installation documentation for Redmine 1.4.0 and higher. You can still read the document for 1.3.x here.
Requirements¶
Operating system¶
Redmine should run on most Unix, Linux, Mac, Mac Server and Windows systems as long as Ruby is available on this platform. See specific installation HowTos here.
Ruby interpreter¶
The required Ruby versions for a given Redmine version is:
Redmine version | Supported Ruby versions | Rails version used | Supported RubyGems versions |
---|---|---|---|
current trunk | ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, jruby-1.6.7 | Rails 3.2.8 | RubyGems <= 1.8 |
2.1.0 | ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, jruby-1.6.7 | Rails 3.2.8 | RubyGems <= 1.8 |
2.0.3 | ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, jruby-1.6.7 | Rails 3.2.6 | RubyGems <= 1.8 |
2.0.2 | ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, jruby-1.6.7 | Rails 3.2.5 | RubyGems <= 1.8 |
2.0.0, 2.0.1 | ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, jruby-1.6.7 | Rails 3.2.3 | RubyGems <= 1.8 |
1.4.x | ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, jruby-1.6.7 | Rails 2.3.14 | RubyGems <= 1.8 |
Supported database back-ends¶
- MySQL 5.0 or higher (recommended)
- make sure to install the C bindings for Ruby that dramatically improve performance. You can get them by running
gem install mysql2
. If you have problem installing the mysql gem refer Rails Wiki pages
- make sure to install the C bindings for Ruby that dramatically improve performance. You can get them by running
- PostgreSQL 8 or higher (8.2 or higher starting from Redmine 2.0.0)
- SQLite 3
Optional components¶
- SCM binaries (eg.
svn
), for repository browsing (must be available in your PATH). See RedmineRepositories for SCM compatibility and requirements. - RMagick (to enable Gantt export to png image)
- Ruby OpenID Library (to enable OpenID support) [only on Redmine trunk / 0.9-dev] Version 2 or greater is required.
Redmine Version¶
It is recommended that the majority of users install the proper point releases of redmine. Redmine currently releases a new version every 6 months, and these releases are considered very usable and stable. It is not recommended to install redmine from trunk, unless you are deeply familiar with Ruby on Rails and keep up with the changes - Trunk does break from time-to-time.
Installation procedure¶
Step 1 - Redmine application¶
Get the Redmine source code by either downloading a packaged release or checking out the code repository.
See the download page.
Step 2 - Dependencies installation¶
Since 1.4.0, Redmine uses Bundler to manage gems dependencies.
You need to install Bundler first:
gem install bundler
Then you can install all the gems required by Redmine using the following command:
bundle install --without development test
Optional dependencies¶
If ImageMagick is not installed on your system, you should skip the installation of the rmagick gem using: `bundle install --without development test rmagick`
.
Sidenote concerning the installation of rmagick
on Windows:
At the time of writing, there is little chance that the
rmagick
gem installation (if not yet installed), go through fine when running thebundle install
command; you'll find some help here .
You can also skip the installation of the database adapters you're not using. For example, if you're using MySQL, you can skip the installation of the postgresql and sqlite gems using `bundle install --without development test postgresql sqlite`
.
Additional dependencies (Gemfile.local
)¶
If you need to load any gems that are not required by Redmine core (eg. puma, fcgi), create a file named Gemfile.local
at the root of your redmine directory. It will be loaded automatically when running `bundle install`. Example:
# Gemfile.local gem 'puma'
Step 3 - Create an empty database and accompanying user¶
Redmine database user will be named redmine
hereafter but it can be changed to anything else.
MySQL¶
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';
PostgreSQL¶
CREATE ROLE redmine LOGIN ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'my_password' NOINHERIT VALID UNTIL 'infinity'; CREATE DATABASE redmine WITH ENCODING='UTF8' OWNER=redmine;
Step 4 - Configuration¶
Copy config/database.yml.example
to config/database.yml
and edit this file in order to configure your database settings for "production" environment.
Example for a MySQL database using ruby1.8 or jruby:
production: adapter: mysql database: redmine host: localhost username: redmine password: my_password
Example for a MySQL database using ruby1.9 (adapter must be set to mysql2
):
production: adapter: mysql2 database: redmine host: localhost username: redmine password: my_password
If your server is not running on the standard port (3306), use this configuration instead:
production: adapter: mysql database: redmine host: localhost port: 3307 username: redmine password: my_password
Example for a PostgreSQL database (default port):
production: adapter: postgresql database: <your_database_name> host: <postgres_host> username: <postgres_user> password: <postgres_user_password> encoding: utf8 schema_search_path: <database_schema> (default - public)
Step 5 - Session store secret generation¶
This step generates a random key used by Rails to encode cookies storing session data thus preventing their tampering.
Generating a new secret token invalidates all existing sessions after restart.
- with Redmine 1.4.x:
rake generate_session_store
- with Redmine 2.x:
rake generate_secret_token
Step 6 - Database schema objects creation¶
Create the database structure, by running the following command under the application root directory:
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
It will create tables and an administrator account.
If you get this error with Ubuntu:
Rake aborted! no such file to load -- net/https
Then you need to install libopenssl-ruby1.8
just like this: apt-get install libopenssl-ruby1.8
.
Step 7 - Database default data set¶
Insert default configuration data in database, by running the following command:
RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data
This step is optional but highly recommended, as you can define your own configuration from scratch. It will load default roles, trackers, statuses, workflows and enumerations.
Step 8 - File system permissions¶
NB: Windows users can skip this section.
The user account running the application must have write permission on the following subdirectories:
files
(storage of attachments)log
(application log fileproduction.log
)tmp
andtmp/pdf
(create these ones if not present, used to generate PDF documents among other things)
E.g., assuming you run the application with a redmine user account:
mkdir tmp tmp/pdf public/plugin_assets sudo chown -R redmine:redmine files log tmp public/plugin_assets sudo chmod -R 755 files log tmp public/plugin_assets
Step 9 - Test the installation¶
Test the installation by running WEBrick web server:
- with Redmine 1.4.x:
ruby script/server webrick -e production
- with Redmine 2.x:
ruby script/rails server webrick -e production
Once WEBrick has started, point your browser to http://localhost:3000/. You should now see the application welcome page.
Note: Webrick is not suitable for production use, please only use webrick for testing that the installation up to this point is functional. Use one of the many other guides in this wiki to setup redmine to use either Passenger (aka
mod_rails
), FCGI or a Rack server (Unicorn, Thin, Puma, hellip;) to serve up your redmine.
Step 10 - Logging into the application¶
Use default administrator account to log in:
- login: admin
- password: admin
You can go to Administration menu and choose Settings to modify most of the application settings.
Configuration¶
Since of 1.2.0, Redmine settings are defined in a file named config/configuration.yml
.
If you need to override default application settings, simply copy config/configuration.yml.example
to config/configuration.yml
then edit the new file; the file is well commented by itself, so you should have a look at it.
This settings may be defined per Rails environment (production
/development
/test
).
Important : don't forget to restart the application after any change.
Email / SMTP server settings¶
Email configuration is described in a dedicated page.
SCM settings¶
This configuration section allows you to:- override default commands names if the SCM binaries present in the
PATH
variable doesn't use the standard name (Windows .bat/.cmd names won't work) - specify the full path to the binary
Examples (with Subversion):
Command name override:
scm_subversion_command: "svn_replacement.exe"
Absolute path:
scm_subversion_command: "C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin\svn.exe"
Attachment storage settings¶
You can set a path where Redmine attachments will be stored which is different from the default 'files' directory of your Redmine instance using the attachments_storage_path
setting.
Examples:
attachments_storage_path: /var/redmine/files
attachments_storage_path: D:/redmine/files
Logging configuration¶
Redmine defaults to a log level of :info, writing to the log
subdirectory. Depending on site usage, this can be a lot of data so to avoid the contents of the logfile growing without bound, consider rotating them, either through a system utility like logrotate
or via the config/additional_environment.rb
file.
To use the latter, copy config/additional_environment.rb.example
to config/additional_environment.rb
and add the following lines. Note that the new logger defaults to a high log level and hence has to be explicitly set to info
.
#Logger.new(PATH,NUM_FILES_TO_ROTATE,FILE_SIZE)
config.logger = Logger.new('/path/to/logfile.log', 2, 1000000)
config.logger.level = Logger::INFO
Backups¶
Redmine backups should include:- data (stored in your redmine database)
- attachments (stored in the
files
directory of your Redmine install)
Here is a simple shell script that can be used for daily backups (assuming you're using a mysql database):
# Database /usr/bin/mysqldump -u <username> -p<password> <redmine_database> | gzip > /path/to/backup/db/redmine_`date +%y_%m_%d`.gz # Attachments rsync -a /path/to/redmine/files /path/to/backup/files
Notes on Windows installation¶
There is an prebuilt installer of Ruby MRI available from http://rubyinstaller.org.
After installing it, select Start Command Prompt with Ruby in the start menu.
Specifying the RAILS_ENV
environment variable:
When running command as described in this guide, you have to set the RAILS_ENV
environment variable using a separate command.
I.e. commands with the following syntaxes:
RAILS_ENV=production <any commmand>
<any commmand> RAILS_ENV=production
have to be turned into 2 subsequent commands:
set RAILS_ENV=production <any commmand>
MySQL gem installation issue:
You may need to manually install the mysql gem using the following command:
gem install mysql
And in some case it is required to copy the libmysql.dll file in your ruby/bin directory.
Not all libmysql.dll are ok this seem to works http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/InstantRails-win/InstantRails/mysql/bin/libmySQL.dll.
Alternative to manual installation¶
Some users may prefer to skip manual installation by using one of the third-party Redmine bundles on the download page.
Updated by Etienne Massip almost 12 years ago · 168 revisions locked