Debian 8 Jessie minimal Redmine Server with SQLite3

Debian 8 Jessie is on Beta 2, it has most package you need for 99% of my works.

Here is how it setup a Minimal Redmine Server from Debian 8 Jessie Beta2:

1. First Insall Ruby ( version 2.1 perfect for Redmine version 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 )




# apt-get install ruby ruby-dev make gcc libsqlite3-dev




2. Download Latest Redmine Stable 2.6.0 at this time




# mkdir -p /var/www
# cd /var/www
# wget http://www.redmine.org/releases/redmine-2.6.0.tar.gz
# tar xzvf redmine-2.6.0.tar.gz




3. Install Redmine follow Redmine's official Installation document


http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineInstall


4. my brief installation recorders

Define SQLite Database in config/database.yml


# SQLite3 configuration example
production:
  adapter: sqlite3
  database: db/redmine.sqlite3



install Bundler first


# gem install bundler
# bundle install --without development test rmagick



Session store secret generation


# rake generate_secret_token



Database schema objects creation


# RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate



Database default data set


# RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data



Test the installation


# ruby script/rails server webrick -e production




5. Setup Redmine init script, run WEBrick service

Reference: https://gist.github.com/FeroVolar/7911366
http://www.redmine.org/boards/1/topics/9334?r=14295

My /etc/init.d/redmine file:



#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          redmine
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $all
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: redmine webrick
# Description:       redmine webrick server autostart-script
### END INIT INFO

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
DESC="redmine webrick daemon"
NAME=redmine
PIDFILE=/var/run/redmine.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/"$NAME"

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

# Modify it to your configuration
DIR=/var/www/redmine-2.6.0/

# Start Redmine in daemon mode.
do_start(){
        cd $DIR
        ruby script/rails server webrick -d -e production -p 80 > /var/log/redmine.log
}

# Stop Redmine daemon
do_stop(){
        RUBYPID=`ps aux | grep "ruby script/rails server webrick" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
        if [ "x$RUBYPID" != "x" ]; then
                kill -2 $RUBYPID
        fi
}

# Check if Redmine is running
do_status(){
        RUBYPID=`ps aux | grep "ruby script/rails server webrick" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
        if [ "x$RUBYPID" = "x" ]; then
                echo "* Redmine is not running"
        else
                echo "* Redmine is running"
        fi
}


case "$1" in
        start)
                do_start
                ;;

        stop)
                do_stop
                ;;

        status)
                do_status
                ;;

        restart|force-reload)
                do_stop
                do_start
                ;;

        *)
                echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}"
                exit 1

esac




6. Update systemd init service:



# update-rc.d redmine defaults
# systemctl daemon-reload
# service redmine start
# service redmine stop

Please notice: Redmine with SQLite3 is not for multi-user production system. Webrick server is not for high traffic site as well.

But hey, I got redmine running on a 64 MB VM in 5 mintues!