Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.
OS: CentOS 6.2

  • Install packages 
    yum install ruby-devel gcc-c++ openssl-devel httpd httpd-devel mysql-server  mysql-devel make ruby-rdoc libcurl-devel rubygem-rake ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel wget
  • Rubygems 
    cd /tmp
wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.8.24.tgz
tar xvfz rubygems-1.8.24.tgz
cd rubygems-1.8.24
ruby setup.rb
  • Passenger 
    gem install passenger
passenger-install-apache2-module


  • Load the passenger apache module. Add the following config in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
    LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.12/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.12
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby
  • Setup apache vhost 
    cat <<'EOF' > /etc/httpd/conf.d/redmine.conf
Header always unset "X-Powered-By"
Header always unset "X-Rack-Cache"
Header always unset "X-Content-Digest"
Header always unset "X-Runtime"

PassengerMaxPoolSize 20
PassengerMaxInstancesPerApp 4
PassengerPoolIdleTime 3600
PassengerUseGlobalQueue on
PassengerHighPerformance on
PassengerStatThrottleRate 10
RailsSpawnMethod smart
RailsAppSpawnerIdleTime 86400
RailsFrameworkSpawnerIdleTime 0

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName redmine.local
 DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine/public/
 
 <Directory "/var/www/redmine/public/">
  Options Indexes ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride all
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
EOF
    Note that redmine.local is a local domain and is a manual entry in my workstation's /etc/hosts file. This is done for testing purposes only. For production systems, this may very well be a subdomain under you company's domain name e.g. redmine.acme.com
  • Download and extract redmine 
    cd /tmp
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/76134/redmine-2.0.0.tar.gz
tar xvfz redmine-2.0.0.tar.gz
mkdir /var/www/redmine
cp -a redmine-2.0.0/* /var/www/redmine
chown -R apache.apache /var/www/redmine && chmod -R 755 /var/www/redmine
 
touch /var/www/redmine/log/production.log
chown root.apache /var/www/redmine/log/production.log
chmod 664 /var/www/redmine/log/production.log
  • Bundle 
    gem install bundler
cd /var/www/redmine/
bundle install --without development test postgresql sqlite
  • Setup MySQL DB 
    service mysqld start
chkconfig mysqld on
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation
mysql -uroot -p -e 'create database redmine character set utf8; grant all on redmine.* to [email protected] identified by "my_passwd";flush privileges';
  • Setup redmine database connection 
    mv /var/www/redmine/config/database.yml.example /var/www/redmine/config/database.yml
vi /var/www/redmine/config/database.yml
 
# In the production section, update username, password and other parameters accordingly like so:
 
production:
  adapter: mysql
  database: redmine
  host: localhost
  username: redmine
  password: my_passwd
  encoding: utf8
  • Generate token key for connections 
    rake generate_secret_token
  • Migrate database models 
    RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
  • Load MySQL database schema and default data 
    RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data
  • Fix plugin directory permissions 
    cd /var/www/redmine
mkdir public/plugin_assets
chown -R apache:apache files log tmp public/plugin_assets
chmod -R 755 files log tmp public/plugin_assets
  • and finally, start Apache 
    service httpd start
chkconfig httpd on
  • You may now open and point your browser to http://redmine.local and login as admin/admin