How to install Mantis on Fedora 14

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

192.168.1.2 yoursite.com

Open your mozilla firefox browser. And open bellow link.

http://yoursite/admin/install.php

Next screen

Now click on continue to login into mantis.

Now your mantis is installed.

Login with default admin username Administrator

password is root.