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Installation Instructions

Open Design Engine (ODE) is based on Redmine. The official installation method is to install the Bitnami Redmine Stack, apply some custom configuration to the stack, and then upgrade the installed Redmine instance to the ODE source code. Support for other stacks (or bootstrapped installations) will come with future releases. With luck, one or more of the stack providers will add ODE to their list of supported stacks.

If you're looking to upgrade from a previous version of ODE, see Upgrading ODE

Note, these instructions assume you are running the Ubuntu VM image of the Bitnami Redmine Stack and are running all commands under sudo. They were tested with version 1.1.3 in VMWare Player.

Useful Paths
  • (bitnami_base) = /opt/bitnami in VM images
Steps to install ODE
  • Import the Bitnami Redmine Stack into VMWare (the free VMWare Player is supported)
  • Configure Redmine to run at http://hostname/ instead of http://hostname/redmine
    • Edit (bitnami_base)/apache2/conf/httpd.conf and comment out the line:
      DocumentRoot "/opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs"
    • Edit (bitnami_base)/apps/redmine/conf/redmine.conf to match the following (the key areas are the addition of the virtual host section and changing all references of /redmine to /):
      <VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin haha.huhu.com
  ServerName server.our.lan
  ServerAlias server
  ErrorLog "logs/error.log" 
  CustomLog "logs/access.log" combined
 # this not only blocks access to .svn directories, but makes it                
 # appear as though they aren't even there, not just that they are              
 # forbidden                                                                    
 <DirectoryMatch "^/.*/\.svn/">
    ErrorDocument 403 /404.html
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    Satisfy All
  </DirectoryMatch>
  # This passes through remote_user to mongrel                                  
  RewriteEngine On
  # Redirect non-static requests to cluster                                     
  RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://redminecluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
</VirtualHost>

#ProxyPass / balancer://redminecluster
#ProxyPassReverse / balancer://redminecluster

<Proxy balancer://redminecluster>
  BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3001
  BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3002
  # The number of balancer members depends on the number of mongrels running
  # We use only one mongrel on port 3001 by default for the BitNami Cloud Hosting
  # Please remove the others like 3002 above in such a case.
</Proxy>
    • Edit (bitnami_base)/apps/redmine/config/mongrel_cluster.yml and change references to prefix: /redmine to prefix:
    • Restart Redmine by running:
      (bitnami_base)/ctlscript stop
(bitnami_base)/ctlscript start
  • Configure apache to host svn repositories using Redmine for user authentication
    • Install dependencies
      apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install zlib1g-dev
(bitnami_base)/perl/bin/cpan  # accept defaults and choose CPAN servers
cpan> install Test::Simple
cpan> install DBI
cpan> install DBD::mysql
cpan> quit
apt-get install libapache2-svn libapache-dbi-perl libapache2-mod-perl2 libdbd-mysql-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libauthen-simple-ldap-perl
    • Enable newly installed apache modules by editing (bitnami_base)/apache/conf/httpd.conf
      • Uncomment approximately line 108:
        LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so
      • Add a line at the end of the load modules list for mod_perl:
        LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
    • Copy Redmine.pm into the perl library
      cp (bitnami_base)/apps/redmine/extra/svn/Redmine.pm (bitnami_base)/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux/Apache/
    • Create the directory structure for the svn repositories (Note, ODE is setup to store all project related content in the (bitnami_base) directory, so it uses a non-traditional location to store the svn repositories.)
      cd (bitnami_base)
mkdir repos
chown root:daemon repos
chmod 0755 repos
cd repos
mkdir svn
chown daemon:daemon svn
chmod 0750 svn
    • Document the following production values in (bitnami_base)/apps/redmine/config/database.yml:
      • username
      • password
      • socket
      • database
      • host
    • Edit (bitnami_base)/apps/redmine/conf/redmine.conf to configure apache to host the svn repositories
      • Add the following line between RewriteEngine On and the first RewriteCond to prevent calls to svn from being forwarded to Redmine:
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/svn(/|$)
      • Add the following line above the first ProxyPass directive:
        ProxyPass /svn !
      • Add the following directives to the end of redmine.conf to enable svn over http (note the various fields that need to be updated with values for your installation, including the values you noted earlier from database.yml):
        # /svn location for users
PerlLoadModule Apache::Redmine
<Location /svn>
  DAV svn
  SVNParentPath "(bitnami_base)/repos/svn" 
  Order deny,allow
  Deny from all
  Satisfy any

  PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler
  PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Redmine SVN Repository" 

  #read-only access   
  <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
     Require valid-user
     Allow from localhost
     # Allow from another-ip
     Satisfy any
  </Limit>
  # write access
  <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
    Require valid-user
  </LimitExcept>

  ## for mysql
  RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=(database);host=(host);mysql_socket=(socket)" 

  RedmineDbUser "(username)" 
  RedmineDbPass "(password)" 
</Location>
    • Restart Redmine by running:
      (bitnami_base)/ctlscript stop
(bitnami_base)/ctlscript start
  • Configure Redmine to automatically create svn repositories
    • Activate SVN in Redmine
      • Login to Redmine with an administrator account
      • Goto Admin/Settings and select the Repositories tab
      • Check "*Enable WS for repository management*"
      • Click the "Generate a key" link and note the new API key for use below
      • Make sure SVN is the only enabled SCM
    • Add the following to cron by calling crontab -e
      */2 * * * * (bitnami_base)/ruby/bin/ruby (bitnami_base)/apps/redmine/extra/svn/reposman.rb --redmine localhost --svn-dir (bitnami_base)/repos/svn --owner root --group daemon --command="(bitnami_base)/subversion/bin/svnadmin create --pre-1.6-compatible --fs-type fsfs" --url http://(server_public_fqdn)/svn --key=(API_Key) --verbose >> /var/log/reposman.log 2>&1
  • Test SVN Functionality
    • Create a new Redmine project, making sure to select the Repository module, then wait for 2 minutes to give the cron job a chance to create the svn repository
    • Refresh the project page, and then browse to the new project's Repository tab. You should see an empty repository display without any error messages
    • Confirm you can browse the new repository using svn by running the following command. It should return without errors.
      svn ls http://(server_public_fqdn)/svn/(project_name)
    • Confirm you can add content to the svn repository through svn.
      • Add a user to the newly created project in Redmine (go to the Settings tab and then the Members sub-tab to add a user)
      • Run the following command (note, you will be prompted for the Redmine user's password during this step):
        svn --username (user) -m "testing mkdir" mkdir http://(server_public_fqdn)/svn/(project_name)/testdir
      • Refresh the project's Repository tab in Redmine and confirm the testdir is present in the repository
Sources
These installation instructions are based on a number of existing how-to's and postings on the internet. The sources include:

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