Last modified: January 18, 2021

Overview

This document explains how to install the Redmine® web application. Redmine is a project management web application that functions on the Ruby platform. You can register the Redmine application in cPanel’s Application Manager interface (cPanel >> Home >> Software >> Application Manager).

Getting started

Before you follow the steps outlined in this documentation, note the following:

• The cPanel account must possess compiler access in WHM’s Compiler Access interface (WHM >> Home >> Security Center >> Compiler Access). If the account does not possess compiler access, the system will return an error similar to the following message:

  make: execvp: gcc: Permission denied

• We recommend that you perform the steps in this document via the command line as a cPanel user unless the step specifies otherwise. You can also perform these steps in cPanel’s Terminal interface (cPanel >> Home >> Advanced >> Terminal).

Pre-installation settings

Before you begin, ensure that you remove the operating system-provided Ruby installation. Then, install Ruby via the following RPMs:

• ea-ruby27-mod_passenger

  Note:

  If you enable this module, the system disables Apache’s mod_userdir module.

• ea-ruby27-ruby-devel

• ImageMagick-devel

• ea-apache24-mod_env

  Note:

  This module allows you to add environment variables when you register your application. For more information about environment variables, read our Application Manager documentation.

To install these RPMs, use WHM’s EasyApache 4 interface (WHM >> Home >> Software >> EasyApache 4) or run the following command as the root user:

yum install ea-ruby27-mod_passenger ea-ruby27-ruby-devel ImageMagick-devel ea-apache24-mod_env

Install the bundler Ruby gem

To install the bundler Ruby gem, run the following command as the root user:

scl enable ea-ruby27 'gem install bundler --user-install'

Install the bundler without the SCL utility

If you do not want to use the Software Collection Library (SCL) utility, perform the following steps:

1. Log in to the server as the root user.

2. Add the source /opt/cpanel/ea-ruby27/enable line to your shell’s rc file (for example, the /home/user/.bashrc file).

3. Log out of your terminal session, then log back in again. You can also create a new terminal session.

4. Run the gem install bundler --user-install command.

Extract the Redmine archive file

After you install the bundler and rake Ruby gems, download the application and extract the archive file. To do this, perform the following steps:

1. Access the Redmine website in a web browser.

2. Download the most recent .tar.gz file from the Stable Releases section. To do this, run the following command:
   

   wget url http://www.redmine.org/releases/redmine-X.X.X.tar.gz

3. Extract the .tar.gz file’s contents. To do this, run the following command:

   tar xvzf redmine-X.X.X.tar.gz

4. After you extract the .tar.gz file, rename the file to your Ruby application’s name. To do this, run the following command:

   mv /home/user/redmine-X.X.X /home/user/greenmine

Create the database and database users

After you extract the Redmine archive file, create the application’s database and configure the database users.

To do this, perform the following steps:

1. Create production and development databases the UAPI Mysql::create_database. For example:

   /usr/local/cpanel/bin/uapi Mysql create_database name=user_greenmine

2. Create the database users via the UAPI Mysql::create_user function. For example:

   /usr/local/cpanel/bin/uapi Mysql create_user name=user_greenmine password=123456luggage

3. Assign the database user’s privileges via the UAPI Mysql::set_privilges_on_database function. For example:

   /usr/local/cpanel/bin/uapi Mysql set_privileges_on_database user=user_greenmine database=production_greenmine privileges=ALL

4. Copy the contents of the /home/user/greenmine/config/database.yml.example file to the /home/user/greenmine/config/database.yml file.

5. Open the /config/database.yml file with a text editor.

6. Add the database names, usernames, and passwords information to the file. The file will resemble the following example:

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   # Default setup is given for MySQL with ruby1.9. # Examples for PostgreSQL, SQLite3 and SQL Server can be found at the end. # Line indentation must be 2 spaces (no tabs). production: adapter: mysql2 database: user_production_greenmine host: localhost username: user password: "123456luggage" encoding: utf8 development: adapter: mysql2 database: user_development_greenmine host: localhost username: user password: "123456luggage" encoding: utf8

Install your Ruby Gems

To install the Ruby Gems that reside in the /home/user/greenmine/Gemfile file, change to the /home/user/greenmine directory and run the following command:

scl enable ea-ruby27 'bundle install'

Create a secret key

After you install your Ruby Gems, create a secret key, which the system uses to encode cookies. To generate this key, run the following command:

scl enable ea-ruby27 'rake secret'

This command returns a key hash that resembles the following example:

0d3f00336c10ac419f9ed08b4448dc1e652179b86eb1c434d3e4cf68b15aa92fbac1dc1f24a19b150b63a133fe4e89b8fb79ca5e78026bcbcf8ce183f5c9ca8c

After you create the secret key, create the /home/user/greenmine/config/secrets.yml file. Then, add the following content, where secretkey is the key hash that the scl enable ea-ruby27 'rake secret' command returned:

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  secret_key_base: secretkey

Create the database structure

After you add the security key to the /home/user/greenmine/config/secrets.yml file, create the database structure. To do this, change to the /home/user/greenmine directory and run the following command:

RAILS_ENV=production scl enable ea-ruby27 'bundle exec rake db:migrate'

The output will resemble the following partial example:

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== 20160416072926 RemovePositionDefaults: migrating ===========================
-- change_column("boards", :position, :integer, {:default=>nil})
   -> 0.0025s
-- change_column("custom_fields", :position, :integer, {:default=>nil})
   -> 0.0024s
-- change_column("enumerations", :position, :integer, {:default=>nil})
   -> 0.0023s
-- change_column("issue_statuses", :position, :integer, {:default=>nil})
   -> 0.0021s
-- change_column("roles", :position, :integer, {:default=>nil})
   -> 0.0022s
-- change_column("trackers", :position, :integer, {:default=>nil})
   -> 0.0020s
== 20160416072926 RemovePositionDefaults: migrated (0.0139s) ==================

== 20160529063352 AddRolesSettings: migrating =================================
-- add_column(:roles, :settings, :text)
   -> 0.0109s
== 20160529063352 AddRolesSettings: migrated (0.0109s) ========================

Create the data configuration

After you create the database structure, create the database’s default configuration data set. To do this, perform the following steps:

1. Run the following command:

   RAILS_ENV=production scl enable ea-ruby27 'bundle exec rake redmine:load_default_data'

2. When the system prompts you, select the database’s locale. To do this, enter your chosen locale’s two letter abbreviation in the command line.

Set the file system permissions

After you create the database’s data configuration, set the file system permissions. To do this, change to the /home/user/greenmine directory and run the following commands:

• mkdir -p tmp tmp/pdf public/plugin_assets
• chmod -R 755 files log tmp public/plugin_assets

Register the application

After you set the file permissions, register your web application. To do this, use cPanel’s Application Manager interface (cPanel >> Home >> Software >> Application Manager) to register the web application.

You can also use UAPI’s PassengerApps::register_application function. For example:

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/uapi PassengerApps register_application name="greemine" path="/home/user/greenmine" domain="myredminedomain.tld" deployment_mode="production" base_uri="/greenmine" enabled="1"

Restart Apache

After you register the Apache configuration, restart Apache as the root user with the /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/restartsrv_httpd command. After Apache restarts, you can access the Redmine web application in cPanel’s Application Manager interface (cPanel >> Home >> Software >> Application Manager).