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.

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.

• (bitnami_base) = /opt/bitnami in VM images

• 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 SVN in Redmine
  • 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 root: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(/|$)