Install Redmine On Ubuntu Server 13.10

Introduction

Redmine is one of most interesting project management web applications, written using Ruby on Rails framwork.

Installation

Install Apache2, MySQL and other dependencies packages:

apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-passenger mysql-server mysql-client

Install Redmine

apt-get install redmine redmine-mysql

Configure database for redmine, Select Yes.

Select database type. In this example, I use mysql.

Provide database administrative password.

Provide a password for redmine.

Confirm password:

Configuration

Create symlink Redmine in web documents path.

ln -s /usr/share/redmine/public /var/www/redmine

Apache2 Configuration

Edit file /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf,

vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf

with content:

<IfModule mod_passenger.c>
PassengerDefaultUser www-data
PassengerRoot /usr
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby
</IfModule>

Change ownership:

chown -R chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/redmine

Virtualhost Configuration

Create a virtuahost named “redmine” in /etc/apache2/sites-available/.

vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/redmine

with content:

<VirtualHost *:80>
                 ServerAdmin helpdesk@unixmen.com
                 ServerName redmine.unixmen.com
                 ErrorLog /var/log/error-redmine.log
                 LogLevel warn
                 CustomLog /var/log/access-redmine.log combined
                 DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine
                 <Directory /var/www/redmine>
                                    RailsBaseURI /redmine
                                    PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on
                                    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                                    AllowOverride all
                                    Order deny,allow
                                    Deny from all
                                    Allow from 192.168.5.0/255.255.255.0 172.16.5.0/255.255.255.0
                 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Enable site redmine: