How to install Redmine on Fedora 11 linux?

Question

I would like to install REDMine on my LINUX LAMP. First i need to install ROR.

http://www.redmine.org

Provide steps if anybdoy has done installation

Answer 1

If you actually looked, you would have found that the instructions are on the redmine website: http://www.redmine.org/wiki/1/RedmineInstall

Answer 2

Given that no truly reliable installation instructions can be found around (Fedora or other distribution that is), I will hereby detail the installation steps that worked for me. The website instructions are pretty reliable, but this is the most straightforward approach. I assume that you already have Apache2 and MySql, and installed Redmine 1.2.1 on a given $REDMINE_HOME.

This procedure was tested on Ubuntu 11.04, but given the packages involved, it should not be a problem replicating the procedure with success under Fedora. I will try to be as generic as possible.

Ruby:

1. Install ruby, rubygems, rake and the development mysql client library (libmysqlclient-dev on Ubuntu); a working ruby version is the 1.8.7 as of Sep '11
2. gem install rails -v=2.3.11
3. gem install i18n -v=0.4.2
4. gem install mysql

MySql:

Perform the following list of commands:

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

Redmine configuration:

1. Create a $REDMINE_HOME/config/database.yml file with at least the following profile:

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

2. In $REDMINE_HOME, run

   • rake generate_session_store
   • rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
   • rake redmine:load_default_data RAILS_ENV=production

Now running ruby script/server -e production should have you access Redmine at "0.0.0.0:3000".

Apache2:

1. Install the Apache2 Passenger mod (libapache2-mod-passenger in Ubuntu)

2. Assuming you provided a symbolic link to $REDMINE_HOME/public from /var/www/redmine, the virtual host should read something like this:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
       DocumentRoot /var/www
       Options Indexes ExecCGI FollowSymLinks    
   
       RailsBaseURI /redmine
       <Directory /var/www/redmine>
           Options -MultiViews
       </Directory>
   </VirtualHost>
   

Eclipse Mylyn integration:

1. Go to $REDMINE_HOME/vendor/plugins and run

   git clone git://redmin-mylyncon.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/redmin-mylyncon/redmine-mylyn-connector

2. (Re)start the server, and in Redmine under Administration/Plugins the Mylyn Connector Plugin should be listed

3. Again in Redmine, under Administration/Settings/Authentication, check the "Enable REST web service" field

4. In Eclipse, install the Eclipse connector via its update site

   http://redmin-mylyncon.sourceforge.net/update-site/N/