Installing Redmine on Centos 6.4 + GIT Support

Ruby Install

# yum install httpd-devel ruby ruby-devel -y

# cd /tmp

# wget http://fossies.org/unix/www/apache_httpd_modules/mod_ruby-1.3.0.tar.gz

# tar zxvf mod_ruby-1.3.0.tar.gz

# cd mod_ruby-1.3.0/

# ./configure.rb --with-apr-includes=/usr/include/apr-1

# make

# make install

 

Configure Ruby to load with Apache

# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/ruby.conf

Paste the following in the file

LoadModule ruby_module modules/mod_ruby.so
RubyAddPath /1.8

Now Restart the web server

# service httpd restart

 

Install Redmine

# cd /tmp

# wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/77138/redmine-2.3.3.tar.gz

# tar -zxvf redmine-2.3.3.tar.gz

 Now move this to where ever you want to keep it

 

DB – MySQL

# mysql -p

In MySQL Console

mysql > CREATE DATABASE redmine CHARACTER SET utf8;
 mysql > CREATE USER 'redmine'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';
 mysql > GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON redmine.* TO 'redmine'@'localhost';

 

Copy config/database.yml.example to config/database.yml and edit this file in order to configure your database settings for “production” environment.

 

Following are the settings for For Ruby 1.8.7

 

# vi config/database.yml

production:
 adapter: mysql
 database: redmine
 host: localhost
 username: redmine
 password: PASSWORD

 

Make sure you are inside the redmine directory with ‘Gemfile’. Run the following command

# gem install bundler

 

Before installing the bundles update the Gemfile, add

# vi Gemfile

gem 'mail', '2.5.3'

 

inside it. If you don’t use this, it will install mail 2.5.4 which will not work with redmine 2.3.3. I read somewhere that if ruby is >= 1.9.* we can use 2.5.4 version of mail but not sure.

# bundle install --without development test

 

If ImageMagick is not installed on your system, you should skip the installation of the rmagick gem using:

# bundle install --without development test rmagick

 

# rake generate_secret_token

 

# RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate

# RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data

 

Select your language [en]

 

File/folder permission

# mkdir -p tmp tmp/pdf public/plugin_assets
# sudo chown -R USER:USERGROUP files log tmp public/plugin_assets
# sudo chmod -R 755 files log tmp public/plugin_assets

 

Testing the Installation

# ruby script/rails server webrick -e production

 

Now in your browser go to http://yourip:3000

Use the following details

Login: admin

Pass: admin

 

EMAIL Settings

http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/EmailConfiguration

# vi config/configuration.yml

locate and change the following

 

default:

 # Outgoing emails configuration (see examples above)

 email_delivery:

   delivery_method: :sendmail

   smtp_settings:

     address: 127.0.0.1

     port: 25

GIT Integration

# which git

normally it is in ‘/usr/bin/git’

# vi config/configuration.yml

locate and add the path

scm_git_command: /usr/bin/git

Login to admin, create project, in project settings create Repository, in repository settings page, Select GIT, and in path provide full path including git dir, for example

/var/www/clients/client1/aala.pk/web/rep/lapchi/.git

 

Apache Configuration

Used this one

http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Redmine+Apache+Passenger_InstallOnRedHat

 

# gem install passenger

# passenger-install-apache2-module

 

More details on passenger http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html

 

# rake generate_session_store

 

Create /etc/httpd/conf.d/passenger.conf

# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/passenger.conf

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.18/buildout/apache2/mod_passenger.so

PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.18

PassengerDefaultRuby /usr/bin/ruby

# the following line is required, as files uploaded will be owned by apache, if not

# added it will cuase 500 internal server error on file delete/ or issue/project

# delete where files are attached with issues

PassengerDefaultUser apache

 

Redmine Apache Config

# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/redmine.conf

Listen *:3000

   <VirtualHost *:80>

       ServerName redmine.aala.pk

       ServerAdmin webmaster@<YOUR-DOMAIN>.com

       DocumentRoot /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/red/public/

       ErrorLog logs/redmine_error_log

       #If you are using mod_fcgid and are going to upload files larger than

       #131072 bytes you should consider adding the following line

       #that allows to upload files up to 20 mb

       MaxRequestLen 20971520

       <Directory "/var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/red/public/">

               Options Indexes ExecCGI FollowSymLinks

               Order allow,deny

               Allow from all

               AllowOverride all

       </Directory>

   </VirtualHost>

For more details follow the tutorial link provided above

Check Memory Consumption

# passenger-memory-stats

KNOWN ISSUE

Unable to delete a project – check that there are files attached with any of its issues? if yes make sure to include PassengerDefaultUser in the passenger.conf file, when file is uploaded passenger store it as root and can not delete it later