Linux Stuff: December 2010

How to Install Mantis on Fedora 14.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install and configure Mantis - Bug Tracker on your Fedora operating system.

Mantis is an open source free defect tracking utility.

Requirements

Apache

mysql-server

PHP

Lets Install required packages and its dependancies.

#yum install httpd php php-pdo       php-mysql php-gd mysql mysql-server 

Go to the /var/www/html direcotory.

#wget -c http://space.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mantisbt/mantis-stable/1.2.4/mantisbt-1.2.4.tar.gz

extract tarball

#tar -zxvf mantisbt-1.2.4.tar.gz

#cd mantisbt-1.2.4

#chown -R apache.apache       mantisbt-1.2.4

#cp config_inc.php.sample       config_inc.php

#vim       /var/www/html/mantisbt-1.2.4/config_inc.php

put appropriate database and host specific information

<?php

  $g_hostname = 'localhost';

  $g_db_type = 'mysql';

  $g_database_name = 'tracker';

  $g_db_username = 'mantisdbuser';

  $g_db_password = ''; ?>

# --- Anonymous Access / Signup ---     

$g_allow_signup = ON;     

$g_allow_anonymous_login = OFF;     

$g_anonymous_account = '';     

# --- Email Configuration ---     

$g_phpMailer_method =       PHPMAILER_METHOD_MAIL; # or PHPMAILER_METHOD_SMTP,       PHPMAILER_METHOD_SENDMAIL     

$g_smtp_host =       'localhost'; # used with PHPMAILER_METHOD_SMTP     

$g_smtp_username = ''; # used with       PHPMAILER_METHOD_SMTP     

$g_smtp_password = ''; # used with       PHPMAILER_METHOD_SMTP     

$g_administrator_email =       'administrator@yoursite.com';     

$g_webmaster_email =       'webmaster@yoursite.com';     

$g_from_name =       'Mantis Bug Tracker';     

$g_from_email =       'noreply@yoursite.com'; # the "From: " field       in emails     

$g_return_path_email =       'admin@yoursite.com'; # the return address for bounced mail     

$g_email_receive_own = OFF;     

$g_email_send_using_cronjob = OFF;     

$g_enable_email_notification = OFF;

save and close file.

create mysql database

mysql> create database tracker;

mysql> grant all on tracker.* to mantisdbuser@localhost identified by 'mantisdbpass';

mysql> flush privileges;

mysql> quit

Create virtual host in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

ServerAdmin webmaster@yoursite.com

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mantisbt-1.2.4

ServerName yoursite.com

ErrorLog logs/yoursite.com-error_log

CustomLog logs/yoursite.com-access_log common

put entry in host file

Open your mozilla firefox browser. And open bellow link.

Next screen

Now click on continue to login into mantis.

Now your mantis is installed.

password is root.

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