Redmine

• Debian 8 - Jessie (Currently - 2022-11-27 - no Redmine support for Debian 11!)
• If you are using a VM, give it at least 256 MB.

get it going

• 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

• 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

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