Resources

• http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/howto_install_redmine_on_ubuntu_step_by_step
• http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/redmineinstall

Tested version

pg_config --version
PostgreSQL 11.2 (Debian 11.2-1.pgdg90+1)

ruby -v
ruby 2.3.3p222 (2016-11-21) [x86_64-linux-gnu]

Server packages

Debian packages

sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-passenger ruby ruby-dev
sudo apt install postgresql-server-dev-all

Ruby GEMs

sudo -E gem install bundler -v 1.17.3

Database

CREATE ROLE redmine LOGIN ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'redmine' NOINHERIT VALID UNTIL 'infinity';
CREATE DATABASE redmine WITH ENCODING='UTF8' OWNER=redmine;

App

tar -xzf redmine-3.4.10.tar.gz
cd redmine-3.4.10/
mv config/database.yml.example  config/database.yml
cd ..
mv redmine-3.4.10/ /var/www/redmine

Edit config/database.yml.example :

# PostgreSQL configuration example
production:
  adapter: postgresql
  database: redmine
  host: localhost
  username: redmine
  password: "redmine"

And rename it:

mv config/database.yml.example  config/database.yml

Dependencies

bundle install --without development test

Setup

bundle exec rake generate_secret_token
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake db:migrate
RAILS_ENV=production REDMINE_LANG=fr bundle exec rake redmine:load_default_data


mkdir -p tmp tmp/pdf public/plugin_assets
sudo chown -R www-data: files log tmp public/plugin_assets
sudo chmod -R 755 files log tmp public/plugin_assets

Apache2

Permissions & ownership

sudo chown -R www-data: /var/www/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/

 Configuration of passenger.conf

Add the following line to /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf:

PassengerDefaultUser www-data

Virtual Host

Edit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    #ServerName www.example.com
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine/public/
        #MaxRequestLen 20971520

        <Directory "/var/www/redmine/public">
                Options Indexes ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
                AllowOverride all
        </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/redmine.error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/redmine.access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Test

REDMINE should be running, login with admin/admin.