== Redmine installation Redmine - project management software Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Jean-Philippe Lang http://www.redmine.org/ == Requirements * Ruby on Rails 2.1 * A database: * MySQL (tested with MySQL 5) * PostgreSQL (tested with PostgreSQL 8.1) * SQLite (tested with SQLite 3) Optional: * SVN binaries >= 1.3 (needed for repository browsing, must be available in PATH) * RMagick (gantt export to png) == Installation 1. Uncompress the program archive 2. Create an empty database: "redmine" for example 3. Configure database parameters in config/database.yml for "production" environment (default database is MySQL) 4. Create the database structure. Under the application main directory: rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV="production" It will create tables and an administrator account. 5. Setting up permissions The user who runs Redmine must have write permission on the following subdirectories: files, log, tmp (create the last one if not present). Assuming you run Redmine with a user named redmine: mkdir tmp sudo chown -R redmine:redmine files log tmp sudo chmod -R 755 files log tmp 6. Test the installation by running WEBrick web server: ruby script/server -e production Once WEBrick has started, point your browser to http://localhost:3000/ You should now see the application welcome page 7. Use default administrator account to log in: login: admin password: admin Go to "Administration" to load the default configuration data (roles, trackers, statuses, workflow) and adjust application settings == Email delivery Configuration Copy config/email.yml.example to config/email.yml and edit this file to adjust your SMTP settings. Don't forget to restart the application after any change to this file. Please do not enter your SMTP settings in environment.rb.