{"id":127,"date":"2012-08-16T19:08:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T19:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglets.org\/?p=127"},"modified":"2015-09-04T10:41:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T10:41:55","slug":"migration-from-savane-to-redmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/migration-from-savane-to-redmine\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration from Savane to Redmine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am admin for a server at work foss.ulster.ac.uk<\/a> to host our open source development work. It used to run on GNU Savane, but despite several efforts, that project is clearly dead in the ditch.<\/p>\n

So having to change the underlying system, I decided to move to Redmine (you can see some previous discussion here<\/a>). I'm recording aspects of the migration here mostly for my own sake.<\/p>\n

This install was on Debian Squeeze. I first of all installed the relevant package<\/p>\n

\r\naptitude install redmine redmine-pgsql\r\n<\/pre>\n
and followed the prompts for the configuration. The documentation for the Debian install is a little unhelpful about how to actually configure the web server, and while I have good experience with Apache, I have very little with Ruby on Rails.<\/p>\n
I installed the Apache Passenger module.<\/p>\n
\r\naptitude install libapache2-mod-passenger\r\n<\/pre>\n
and copied the example config<\/p>\n
\r\ncd \/usr\/share\/doc\/redmine\/examples\/\r\ncp apache2-passenger-alias.conf \/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/redmine\r\n<\/pre>\n
I then edited the newly created redmine file to look like this:<\/p>\n
\r\n# These modules must be enabled : passenger\r\n# Configuration for http:\/\/foss.ulster.ac.uk\/redmine\r\n\r\nServerName foss.ulster.ac.uk\r\n# this is the passenger config\r\nRailsEnv production\r\nSetEnv X_DEBIAN_SITEID \"default\"\r\n\r\n#\r\n# This is the example from the Debian package\r\n#\r\n#SetEnv RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT \"\/redmine\"\r\n# apache2 serves public files\r\n#DocumentRoot \/usr\/share\/redmine\/public\r\n#Alias \"\/redmine\/plugin_assets\/\" \/var\/cache\/redmine\/default\/plugin_assets\/\r\n#Alias \"\/redmine\" \/usr\/share\/redmine\/public\r\n\r\n#\r\n# And my attempt (CT 20120816)\r\n#\r\nSetEnv RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT \"\/redmine\"\r\n# apache2 serves public files\r\nDocumentRoot \/usr\/share\/redmine\/public\r\nAlias \"\/plugin_assets\/\" \/var\/cache\/redmine\/default\/plugin_assets\/\r\nAlias \"\/\" \/usr\/share\/redmine\/public\r\n\r\nDirectory \"\/usr\/share\/redmine\/public\"\r\nOrder allow,deny\r\nAllow from all\r\n<\/pre>\n
In my case I wanted Redmine on the web root, so you can see the changes I made.<\/p>\n
I then disabled the default config and enabled this:<\/p>\n
\r\na2ensite redmine\r\na2dissite default\r\na2dissite default-ssl\r\n<\/pre>\n
and restarted Apache<\/p>\n
\r\n\/etc\/init.d\/apache2 restart\r\n<\/pre>\n
Now you can login, with the default username and password (admin and admin) and change them and start some configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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