Basic redmine installation

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Manual installation

For basic redmine installation of redmine 2.6.2 with default set of plugins use following steps:

1. Use 'yum -y install ruby rubygems mysql-server mysql-devel ImageMagick gcc ruby-devel ruby-RMagick ImageMagick-devel' to install various packages.
2. If access to Internet is forced through a proxy server, then configure proxy using something similar to "export http_proxy='http://<proxy-fqdn>:<proxy-port>/'".
3. Use following commands for install bundler, downloading redmine sources and using bundle for redmine installation

   gem install bundler
   wget http://www.redmine.org/releases/redmine-2.6.2.tar.gz
   tar xzf redmine-2.6.2.tar.gz
   cd redmine-2.6.2
   bundle install --without postgresql sqlite development test
   bundle show

4. Start mysql-server and secure mysql installation using 'service mysqld start' and '/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation'
5. Enable mysql to run on start-up using 'chkconfig mysqld on'
6. Create database, username and password for redmine using 'mysql -u root -p' followed by:

   create database redmine character set utf8;
   create user 'redmine'@'localhost' identified by 'my_password';
   grant all privileges on redmine.* to 'redmine'@'localhost';
   flush privileges
   \q

7. Configure database, username and password in redmine configuration file using 'cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml' and then by editing 'config/database.yml' to correct database name, username and password for production
8. Initialize redmine for running first time using following commands:

   rake generate_secret_token
   RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
   RAILS_ENV=production REDMINE_LANG=en rake redmine:load_default_data
   mkdir -p public/plugin_assets log files tmp/pdf
   useradd redmine
   sudo chmod -R 755 files log tmp public/plugin_assets
   cd ..
   mv redmine-2.6.2 /home/redmine
   chown -R redmine:redmine /home/redmine

9. Now login as redmine user to start the redmine server

   su - redmine
   cd redmine-2.6.2
   ruby script/rails server webrick -e production -d

10. To run redmine on start-up add following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:

    runuser -l redmine -c 'cd /home/redmine/redmine-2.6.2; ruby script/rails server webrick -e production -d >run.log 2>&1 &'

11. Now redmine should be acessible at http://<machine>:3000/ Sign in using admin as username and same admin as password.

Note that as per http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineInstall webrick is not suitable for production deployment and other mechanisms such as passenger (mod_rails) should be used

Automated installation

For automated installation of redmine2.6.2 using ansible-playbook use:

---
  - name: Redmine 2.6 installer
    hosts: redmine
    remote_user: root

    vars:
      redmine_download_url: http://www.redmine.org/releases/redmine-2.6.2.tar.gz
      redmine_download_url_file_sha256_sum: bed25f295ae8d4f438970c7871d62ba2fcf21749f2aaf334441f3ebab6703225
      redmine_user_password: rekall123
      redmine_user_password_hash: $6$Q7jcmX1jjl$7khBB/slfc2fvUQgxa4q0JAI5fKi7mLNuFFUkj59QiLbZQ2PQZ4dwzjxv2WzsSM3WDCEVKbLQwmE/UCR9pjv.0
      redmine_home_folder: /home/redmine/
      mysql_redmine_password: rekall123
      rpmfusion_free_download_url: http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
      rpmfusion_nonfree_download_url: http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
      epel_download_url: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
      epel_download_path: /root/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

    tasks:
    - name: Create redmine user
      user: name=redmine password={{ redmine_user_password_hash }}

    - name: Download redmine sources
      get_url: url="{{ redmine_download_url }}"  dest="{{ redmine_home_folder }}redmine-2.6.2.tar.gz" force=no sha256sum="{{ redmine_download_url_file_sha256_sum }}" timeout=5

    - name: Extract redmine downloaded sources in /home/redmine
      unarchive: copy=no src="{{ redmine_home_folder }}"/redmine-2.6.2.tar.gz dest="{{ redmine_home_folder }}" creates=/home/redmine/redmine-2.6.2/config.ru

    - name: Download epel RPM
      get_url: url="{{ epel_download_url }}" dest="{{epel_download_path}}" timeout=5
 
    - name: Install epel RPM
      yum: name="{{epel_download_path}}" state=present

    - name: Install mysql-server, MySQL-python, ruby, rubygems, ImageMagick, ruby-devel, gcc, ruby-RMagick, ImageMagick-devel, mysql-devel
      yum: name={{ item }} state=present
      with_items:
        - mysql-server
        - MySQL-python   #Required for mysql_db etc. ansible modules used below
        - ruby           #Required for ruby which redmine uses
        - rubygems       #Required for installing ruby packages esp bundler
        - ImageMagick    #Required for image manipulation,  This is used by redmine
        - ruby-devel     #For compiling various ruby modules through bundler
        - gcc             
        - ruby-RMagick 
        - ImageMagick-devel   #Without this devel packages ruby modules will not compile due to absense of header files
        - mysql-devel         

    - name: Start and Enable mysqld
      service: name={{ item }} state=started enabled=yes
      with_items:
        - mysqld

    - name: Create redmine database in mysql
      mysql_db: name=redmine
  
    - name: Create redmine user and give all permissions on redmine database
      mysql_user: name=redmine password="{{ mysql_redmine_password }}" priv=redmine.*:ALL

    - name: Copy database.yml file to config folder
      copy: src=database.yml dest="{{ redmine_home_folder }}redmine-2.6.2/config" owner=redmine group=redmine
  
    - name: Install bundler using rubygems
      gem: name=bundler state=present user_install=no

    - name: Ask bundler to install all redmine dependencies
      shell: bundle install --without development test postgresql sqlite
      args:
        chdir: "{{ redmine_home_folder }}redmine-2.6.2/"
#        creates: /home/redmine/redmine-2.6.2/Rakefile 

    - name: Generate new key for encoding session data
      shell: rake generate_secret_token
      args:
        chdir: "{{ redmine_home_folder }}redmine-2.6.2/"
#        creates: /home/redmine/redmine-2.6.2/Rakefile

    - name: Create database schema objects
      shell: RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
      args:
        chdir: "{{ redmine_home_folder }}redmine-2.6.2/"
#        creates: /home/redmine/redmine-2.6.2/Rakefile

    - name: Insert default configuration data in database
      shell: RAILS_ENV=production REDMINE_LANG=en rake redmine:load_default_data
      args:
        chdir: "{{ redmine_home_folder }}redmine-2.6.2/"

    - name: Ensure all redmine user files are owned by redmine user
      file: dest="{{ redmine_home_folder }}" owner=redmine group=redmine recurse=yes

    - name: Create necessary folders for redmine to work
      file: path="{{ redmine_home_folder }}{{ item }}" state=directory owner=redmine group=redmine mode=755
      with_items:
        - files
        - log
        - tmp/pdf
        - public/plugin_assets

    - name: Configure redmine to start on machine start
      lineinfile: dest=/etc/rc.d/rc.local line="runuser -l redmine -c 'cd /home/redmine/redmine-2.6.2; ruby script/rails server webrick -e production -d >run.log 2>&1 &'" 
      notify:
        - start redmine

    - name: Print web instructions
      debug: msg="Please visit http://{{ ansible_default_ipv4.address }}:3000 and login using admin:admin credentials"


    handlers:
    - name: start redmine
      shell: runuser -l redmine -c "cd /home/redmine/redmine-2.6.2; ruby script/rails server webrick -e production -d >run.log 2>&1 &"

The script requires database.yml file in local folder with contents similar to:

# Default setup is given for MySQL with ruby1.9. If you're running Redmine
# with MySQL and ruby1.8, replace the adapter name with `mysql`.
# Examples for PostgreSQL, SQLite3 and SQL Server can be found at the end.
# Line indentation must be 2 spaces (no tabs).

production:
  adapter: mysql
  database: redmine
  host: localhost
  username: redmine
  password: "rekall123"
  encoding: utf8

development:
  adapter: mysql2
  database: redmine_development
  host: localhost
  username: root
  password: ""
  encoding: utf8

# Warning: The database defined as "test" will be erased and
# re-generated from your development database when you run "rake".
# Do not set this db to the same as development or production.
test:
  adapter: mysql2
  database: redmine_test
  host: localhost
  username: root
  password: ""
  encoding: utf8

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