Redmine

Note: We need to install using the edge repositories.

Change to the edge repository:

mv /etc/apk/repositories /etc/apk/repositories.old
echo -e "http://dl-3.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/" >> /etc/apk/repositories 

Update and upgrade

apk -U upgrade

Install services

Basic Installation

For installing the additional packages first activate community packages and update the package index

Install the required packages:

# apk add lighttpd php82 fcgi php82-cgi

Configure Lighttpd

Edit lighttpd.conf (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) and uncomment the line:

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

... include "mod_fastcgi.conf" ...

Edit mod_fastcgi.conf (/etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf), find and change /usr/bin/php-cgi to /usr/bin/php-cgi82.

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf

... "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi82" # php-cgi ...

Start lighttpd service and add it to default runlevel

# rc-service lighttpd start # rc-update add lighttpd default

Install extra packages:

apk add fcgi mysql mysql-dev rubygems

gem install rails -v=2.3.5
gem install mysql

Configure MySql

/usr/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
/etc/init.d/mysql start && rc-update add mysql default
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'password'

Create the redmine database

mysql -u root -p

create database redmine character set utf8;
grant all privileges on redmine.* to 'redmine'@'localhost' identified by 'Secur3P@ass';
flush privileges;
exit

Create redmine folder

mkdir -p /usr/share/webapps/redmine

Download, unpack and move Redmine

cd /tmp/
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/73140/redmine-1.0.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf redmine-1.0.3.tar.gz
mv redmine-1.0.3/* /usr/share/webapps/redmine/

Change permissions

chown -R lighttpd:lighttpd /usr/share/webapps/redmine

Edit the database config file and put the mysql password

cp /usr/share/webapps/redmine/config/database.yml.example /usr/share/webapps/redmine/config/database.yml
nano /usr/share/webapps/redmine/config/database.yml 

Some more steps

cd /usr/share/webapps/redmine

rake generate_session_store
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data 

Note: keep default language of en

Start the Redmin

ruby /usr/share/webapps/redmine/script/server webrick -e production

Now you can browse to localhost:3000 an log using admin user and admin password.

Note: Follow http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/4458 adding the virtual host config to /etc/lighttpd/redmine.conf, and add redmine.conf to the includes in /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Then restart lighttpd.