MySQL 5.5.37-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 desktop i386
1. Update package in Ubuntu
This may take a little bit of time...
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
2. Install MySQL
You may need to set a password to your mysql root during the installation.
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
3. Setup database and user for Redmine
CREATE DATABASE redmine CHARACTER SET utf8;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON redmine.* TO 'redmine'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'my_password';
4. Install Redmine
Redmine provides 3 choices, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server, of database. MySQL is picked here.
sudo apt-get install redmine redmine-mysql
5. Config database settings
The database.yml is located under /etc/redmine/default. Edit it by vim.
sudo vim /etc/redmine/default/database.yml
The contents of database.yml file look like followings after edited.
production:
adapter: mysql
database: redmine
host: localhost
port:
username: redmine
password: my_password
endcoding: utf8
The Redmine website suggests mysql2 adapter using ruby 1.9. But it works fine with mysql adapter in my case. You can specify another port number here. Username, password, database and endcoding should be the same as those when you setup database for Redmine.
6. Create database schema objects
Go to Redmine application root directory.
cd /usr/share/redmine
Run following command
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
Run following command to set default data (I skip this step. It doesn't make anything wrong after Redmine was started)
RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data
7. Config log settings
Make a log folder
sudo mkdir /usr/share/redmine/log
Edit production.rb file
sudo vim /usr/share/redmine/config/environments/production.rb
Add followings codes to specify the log file name, location and log level
config.logger = Logger.new('/usr/share/redmine/log/production.log', 7, 1048576)
config.logger.level = Logger::INFO
8. Start WEBrick to run application
Let's use WEBrick to run Redmine. Enter following command to start WEBrick.
sudo ruby /usr/share/redmine/script/rails server -e production
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