How to install Redmine

Test system: CentOS 5.4
1. Download package
Please read http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/RedmineInstall first
Download redmine http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1850
Download ruby http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ http://rubyonrails.org/download
Download rake http://rake.rubyforge.org/
Download rail http://rubyonrails.org/download
Download rubygems http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems/
Below install is on CentOS 5.4, mysql version is 5.0.77 (mysql-5.0.77-3.el5)

2. Install Ruby
#tar -xvf ruby-1.8.7-p174.tar.gz
#cd ruby-1.8.7-p174
#./configure
#make
#make install
Check version
#ruby -v
#cd ..

3. Install rubygems
#tar -xvf rubygems-1.3.6.tar
#cd rubygems-1.3.6
#ruby setup.rb
#cd ..

4. Install rake
#tar -xvf rake-0.8.7.tar
#cd rake-0.8.7
#ruby install.rb
Check version
#ruby -V
#cd ..

5. Run redmine
#service mysqld start
If you can’t user above command to start mysql, you can find /etc/init.d/mysqld and use “/etc/init.d/mysqld start” to start mysql
#tar -xvf redmine-0.8.7.tar.tar
#cd redmine-0.8.7
#mysql
mysql>create database redmine;
mysql>create user 'redmine'@'localhost' identified by 'redmine';
mysql>grant all privileges on redmine.* to 'redmine'@'localhost';
#cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
#vim config/database.yml
production:
adapter: mysql
database: redmine
host: 127.0.0.1
username: redmine
password: redmine
encoding: utf8
#rake config/initializers/session_store.rb
#rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=”production”
Error1: syntax error on line 14, col 2: encoding: utf8
Resolution: modify config/database.yml, after password: it must has a space between ":" and "redmine"
Error2: No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock
Resolution: modify config/database.yml "host: Localhost" to "host: 127.0.0.1"
#ruby script/server -e production
Then you can see below information
==> Booting WEBrick
==> Rails 2.1.2 application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000 ==> Ctrl-c to shutdown server; call with --help for options
...
Input http://127.0.0.1:3000 to see redmine page, create user and project. You can see out put information in terminal

6. Add a script
Create a shell script for redmine useing
#vim redmine.sh
#!/bin/bash
cd /your_path/redmine
ruby script/server -e production

#chmod 755 redmine.sh
#vim /etc/init.d/redmine
#!/bin/sh
# redmine

case "$1" in
start)
/your_path/redmine.sh
;;
stop)
killall ruby
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
;;
esac
exit 0

If you want it run when system start, you can add “/etc/init.d/redmine &” in “/etc/rc.d/rc.local”. Also need run mysql when using redmine

7. Useful link
http://www.javaeye.com/topic/611349
http://hi.baidu.com/demon119/blog/item/a73bd60ba4b1201394ca6b78.html
http://blog.csdn.net/helen_shw/archive/2010/01/26/5259188.aspx