Redmine

• If you are using a VM, give it at least 256 MB.

Redmine, new variant for installation with backport

• add the backport repository and "apt-get update" but don't install anything yet
• Install imagemagick

apt-get install imagemagick

• install the Postgre database:

apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

• Check the output for the start command, something like

pg_ctlcluster 13 main start

• Either use this or just reboot the machine
• Check the status of the database (replace the cluster 13 with yours)

pg_ctlcluster 13 main status

• A good answer is:

server is running

• Install Apache 2

apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-fcgid libapache2-mod-passenger

• enable mod rewrite.load

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
ln -s ../mods-available/rewrite.load

• disable default site

cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
rm *

• install Aptitude

apt-get install aptitude

• install redmine main part

aptitude install redmine 

• answer twice with 'y'
• install Redmine Postgres package

aptitude install redmine-pgsql

• enable writing to /var/www for others than root

chmod o+w /var/www

• install Redmine for real

aptitude install redmine

• Accept this solution: n (no)
• Accept this solution: y (yes)
• Accept this solution: y (yes)
• Answer all questions with the default (yes/localhost/empty)
• disable writing to /var/www for others than root

chmod o-w /var/www

• copy the following files (don't know if all are needed)

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
cp /usr/share/doc/redmine/examples/apache2-host.conf .
cp /usr/share/doc/redmine/examples/apache2-alias.conf .
cp /usr/share/doc/redmine/examples/apache2-passenger-alias.conf .
cp /usr/share/doc/redmine/examples/apache2-passenger-host.conf .

• enable the config files

cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
ln -s ../sites-available/apache2-host.conf
ln -s ../sites-available/apache2-alias.conf
ln -s ../sites-available/apache2-passenger-alias.conf
ln -s ../sites-available/apache2-passenger-host.conf

• restart Apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

• visit your site
  • create a new account, which will be pending approval (write it down too)
  • login as admin/admin
  • change your admin password (write it down)
  • approve the new account under "Administration/Users/Status:All"

old variant with apt-get for redmine

• install required packages

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

• enable mod rewrite.load

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
ln -s ../mods-available/rewrite.load

• install redmine

apt-get install redmine redmine-mysql

• copy some(all?) of the following files

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
cp /usr/share/doc/redmine/examples/apache2-host.conf .
cp /usr/share/doc/redmine/examples/apache2-alias.conf .
cp /usr/share/doc/redmine/examples/apache2-passenger-alias.conf .
cp /usr/share/doc/redmine/examples/apache2-passenger-host.conf .

• enable the config files

cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
ln -s ../sites-available/apache2-host.conf
ln -s ../sites-available/apache2-alias.conf
ln -s ../sites-available/apache2-passenger-alias.conf
ln -s ../sites-available/apache2-passenger-host.conf

• visit your ip
  • create a new account, which will be pending approval
  • login as admin/admin
  • approve the new account
  • change your admin password

mail (not tested with Debian 11 so far)

• Make your server being able to send mails:

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

• Test it with

 echo bla | mail -s test you@yourDomain.com

• Get the configuration file for redmine

cd /etc/redmine/default
cp /usr/share/redmine/config/configuration.yml.example ./configuration.yml

• Allow local mail delivery (do NOT use tabs, use 2 spaces)

default:
  email_delivery:
    delivery_method: :smtp

• reload apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

• Change admin email

subversion (not tested with Debian 11 so far)

If you are using a custom ssl-certificate, you will perhaps get problems. One way to fix this:

• give in /etc/passwd www-data a bash:

www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/bash

• change to the user www-data

su - www-data

• provoke the question to save the certificate permanently:

svn list https://<IP>/svn/<REPOSITORY><PATH> --username <USER>

• try to save the certificate
• copy the failed path and create the directory as root

mkdir /var/www/.subversion/auth/svn.ssl.server -p

• allow the creation of files in that directory

chmod o+w /var/www/.subversion/auth/svn.ssl.server

• as www-data, try again to list the svn directory

svn list https://<IP>/svn/<REPOSITORY><PATH> --username <USER>

• save the certificate
• depending on where your server is, you will want to protect the directory again

chmod o-w /var/www/.subversion/auth/svn.ssl.server

• don't allow login for www-data in /etc/passwd

www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin

Misc (after installation)

Issues for Gantt chart

It only displays "issues that have a start date and a due date or are assigned to a version with a date".

(source)

Redmine inside VirtualBox

If you are running Redmine inside a VirtualBox you might want to have a look here: Port forwarding for Redmine.