Installing Redmine in Ubuntu

Redmine – server web application for managing projects and tasks.

On the test I will install Redmine in Ubuntu Server 16.04, MySQL will be used as the database, and so first we will install the necessary components:

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

Now perform the installation of Redmine:

sudo apt-get install redmine redmine-mysql

Check whether bundler gem is installed:

sudo gem update
sudo gem install bundler

Open the configuration file in the text editor passenger.conf:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf

And after the line:

<IfModule mod_passenger.c>

Let’s add:

PassengerDefaultUser www-data

Create a symbolic link to Redmine in the web server directory:

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

Open the web server configuration file in a text editor:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

And somewhere inside the VirtualHost block, we add:

<Directory /var/www/html/redmine>
    RailsBaseURI /redmine
    PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on
</Directory>

Create a Gemfile.lock file and assign it to the owner of the web-server user www-data:

sudo touch /usr/share/redmine/Gemfile.lock
sudo chown www-data:www-data /usr/share/redmine/Gemfile.lock

Restart the web server to apply all the changes:

sudo service apache2 restart

Now Redmine is installed and it can be opened by link http://HOST/redmine
Where it is necessary to press Enter, enter the standard login admin and password admin.

Done.