Redmine Installation

This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Redmine, a flexible project management web application written in Ruby on Rails, on a Ruby Simple Hosting instance.

Redmine is open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).

Start by downloading the latest version of Redmine (version 2.5.1, at the time of this writing, in our example):

$ wget http://www.redmine.org/releases/redmine-2.5.1.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf redmine-2.5.1.tar.gz
$ mv redmine-2.5.1 redmine
$ rm redmine-2.5.1.tar.gz
$ cd redmine

Prepare the .gitignore file

Remove the following lines from the file .gitignore:

/config/database.yml
/config/initializers/session_store.rb
/config/initializers/secret_token.rb
/public/plugin_assets
/Gemfile.lock
/Gemfile.local
/db/schema.rb

Database configuration

$ cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml

Configure the database:

For MySQL:

--
file : config/database.yml
--

production:
  adapter: mysql2
  database: redmine
  socket: /srv/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
  username: root
  password: ""
  encoding: utf8
  pool: 5

For PostgreSQL:

--
file: config/database.yml
--

[...]
production:
  adapter: postgresql
  template: template0
  database: redmine
  host: localhost
  port: 5432
  username: hosting-db
  password: 
  encoding: unicode
  pool: 5
[...]

Install dependencies

Next, install the necessary dependencies and generate the Gemfile.lock file using Bundler:

Redmine uses Rmagick for image manipulation and PDF/PNG export. If you want to use Rmagick, install the libmagickwand-dev package to meet dependencies when generating the Gemfile.lock file. Otherwise, use the –without rmagick option, as in the second option below.

 $ bundle install

or, without Rmagick:

 $ bundle install --without rmagick

Next, generate a secret token:

$ bundle exec rake generate_secret_token

Push to your instance

In the commands below, replace INSTANCE_ID with your instance ID, and and DC_ID with the ID of the datacenter where your instance lives (dc0 for Paris, dc1 for Baltimore, dc2 for Luxembourg).

Initialize the repo and push the code to the instance:

$ git init  
$ git add .
$ git commit -am 'Initial install'
$ git remote add gandi git+ssh://INSTANCE_ID@git.DC_ID.gpaas.net/default.git
$ git push gandi master

Deployment

Deployment is performed by running the following command:

$ ssh LOGIN@git.DC_ID.gpaas.net 'deploy default.git'

To finish, activate the SSH console of the instance, then connect via SSH and run the following command to initialize the database:

$ cd web/vhosts/default/
$ bundle exec rake db:setup

Steps to take upon first login

It's often useful to run an extra command to create certain default Redmine options, such as the interface language.

Still in the web/vhosts/default/ directory, run:

$ bundle exec rake redmine:load_default_data

Choose “en” for English, “fr” for French, or “es” for Spanish.

To access your Redmine installation, browse to the default URL that is displayed on the instance control panel in your Gandi account.

The default login credentials are as follows:

Login: admin
Password: admin

Don't forget to change your password after your first login!

You can now use your Redmine installation to manage your projects!

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