ChiliProject 1.4.0 + Ruby Enterprise + Passenger + Apache2

I was a happy Trac user, but after seeing Redmine , I realized that Trac has many missing features and that you must do a lot of things with plugins, Redmine has this features out-of-box. After working a bit with Redmine I discovered ChiliProject , which is a fork of Redmine, and its actually compatible with Redmine Themes and Plugins .

Here is a comparison of Redmine/ChiliProject and Trac features:

The first thing that made me not to test Redmine/ChiliProject immediately was that it is RoR and the complexity to make it run stable under apache, but after searching a bit, I found Phusion Passenger and Ruby Enterprise , which is a very good solution to run RoR products stable under Apache, and you have the ability to run Ruby with custom user, usefull for shared environments.

Installation

1. Ruby Enterprise

   I downloaded and installer from source code, so that it’s compiled for my server and I can store it in a specific location. So, the first we have to do is download latest version from Ruby Enterprise Download page

   1wget http://rubyenterpriseedition.googlecode.com/files/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03.tar.gz
   2tar zxvf ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03.tar.gz
   3cd ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03
   4./installer

   Follow installer instructions, and install dependencies if needed (the installer tells us which packages we need for our Linux distro)

2. Phusion Passenger

   Next thing to do, is install the Passanger module for apache, this can be done with the passenger-install-apache2-module script available at Ruby Enterprise installation

   1cd /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/bin
   2./passenger-install-apache2-module 

   This script also checks the dependencies and says what packages you need for your Linux distro

3. Apache

   Now we need to configure apache, first we need to activate and configure the passenger module

   /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/passenger.load

   1	LoadModule passenger_module /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.7/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so

   /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/passenger.conf

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   <IfModule mod_passenger.c> PassengerRoot /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.7 PassengerRuby /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/bin/ruby PassengerFriendlyErrorPages Off PassengerUserSwitching On PassengerDefaultUser www-data PassengerDefaultGroup www-data </IfModule>

   And the last thing is configure a vhost under which we will run this ChiliProject installation

   /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/chiliproject

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   NameVirtualHost *:443 <VirtualHost *:443> SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.key <IfModule mod_passenger.c> PassengerUser chiliproject PassengerGroup chiliproject </IfModule> ServerAdmin [email protected] ServerName chiliproject.org DocumentRoot /home/chiliproject/public <Directory /> Options -MultiViews AllowOverride All </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/chiliproject-error.log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/chiliproject-access.log combined </VirtualHost>

4. ChiliProject

   First install needed gems

   1/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/bin/gem install -v=0.4.2 i18n
   2/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/bin/gem install -v=1.0.1 rack
   3/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/bin/gem install mysql

   Download the last available ChiliProject version from ChiliProject Files Page

   1wget https://www.chiliproject.org/attachments/download/99/chiliproject-1.4.0.tar.gz
   2tar zxvf chiliproject-1.4.0.tar.gz
   3mv chiliproject-1.4.0 /home/chiliproject

   Create the mysql database and user for ChiliProject

   1CREATE DATABASE chiliproject CHARACTER SET utf8 collate utf8_unicode_ci;
   2GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON chiliproject.* TO 'chiliproject'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'my_password';

   Configure ChiliProject Database Connection

   1mv config/database.yml.example config/database.yml

   1production:
   2  adapter: mysql
   3  database: chiliproject
   4  host: localhost
   5  username: chiliproject
   6  password: my_password

   Now initialize ChiliProject (session Store, DB Tables, DB Default Data

   1/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/bin/rake generate_session_store
   2RAILS_ENV=production /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/bin/rake db:migrate
   3RAILS_ENV=production /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/bin/rake redmine:load_default_data

   And the last thing we need to do before we can restart apache and begin to use the new installed ChiliProject, we need to create the chiliproject user

   1adduser --home /home/chiliproject --shell /bin/false --no-create-home chiliproject
   2chown -R chiliproject:chiliproject /home/chiliproject

5. (Optinal) Rmagick

   If we want to enable Gantt export to png image we need to install Rmagick (available as gem). First we need to install imagemagick ang graphicsmagick dev packages and then we can install the rmagick gem.

   1apt-get install libmagickcore-dev libgraphicsmagick1-dev libmagickwand-dev
   2/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/bin/gem install rmagick

Now we only need to restart Apache and load ChiliProject in our Browser. The default user is admin/admin