Redmine installation on Ubuntu ... now what?

I've been tinkering/testing with Ubuntu Server 10.04 Beta LAMP stack in a VM and now I've come to the Redmine install. I found a package for it, and issued:

sudo tasksel install lamp-server
sudo apt-get install redmine

Which (I think almost) worked, but I've no idea how to test it, or even know if it's configured.

How do I test it? I'm using 10.04 server so I don't have a local GUI.

Solution 1:

Unfortunately the redmine Ubuntu package requires some manual configuration before you can get started. Now that redmine is installed, you still have to make it accessible through a real web server. An easy way to do this is with Apache with the mod_passenger plugin.

Just edit your /etc/apache2/sites-available/default (or default-ssl), adding:

RailsBaseURI /redmine
PassengerDefaultUser www-data

Then configure /etc/redmine/default/database.yml as necessary and run ln -s /usr/share/redmine/public /var/www/redmine. That should do the trick.

You can read more at http://www.redmine.org/wiki/1/HowTo_Install_Redmine_in_Ubuntu.

Solution 2:

What happens if you to http://IP.address.of.server?

At some point during the Redmine install you would've likely setup an Apache virtual host that would've had a ServerAlias directive with somedomain.com, assuming you have DNS setup for that domain to resolve to your VM's IP address. If not, you can get away with editing your HOSTS file.

If so, you need to go to http://somedomain.com in your browser to see/use Redmine.