How to install Fly-spray on Linux mint 18.03
To install FlySpray on Linuxmint 18.03
Flyspray is an uncomplicated, web-based bug tracking system written in PHP for assisting with software development. Flyspray is free software, released under the GNU GPL license. In this tutorial, we will see the installation of Flyspray on Linux mint 18.3
features
• Web-based, platform-independent
• Multiple database support
• Easy installation
• Easy to use
• Multiple projects
• File attachments
Prerequisites
Install LAMP (Apache, MariaDB, php7)
In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user)
Php installation with required following modules
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt-get update
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0 php7.0-common
php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap php7.0-xml php7.0-intl php7.0-cli php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl
Installation
Download a flyspray package on terminal using the wget command.
linuxhelp ~ # wget https://github.com/Flyspray/flyspray/archive/v1.0-rc6.zip
--2018-07-09 14:12:29-- https://github.com/Flyspray/flyspray/archive/v1.0-rc6.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112, 192.30.253.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/Flyspray/flyspray/zip/v1.0-rc6 [following]
--2018-07-09 14:12:31-- https://codeload.github.com/Flyspray/flyspray/zip/v1.0-rc6
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 192.30.253.121, 192.30.253.120
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|192.30.253.121|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3493385 (3.3M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘;v1.0-rc6.zip’;
v1.0-rc6.zip 100%[=====================================>] 3.33M 138KB/s in 23s
2018-07-09 14:12:56 (146 KB/s) - ‘;v1.0-rc6.zip’; saved [3493385/3493385]
After Downloading extract the downloaded package
linuxhelp ~ # unzip v1.0-rc6.zip
Archive: v1.0-rc6.zip
7800ed1c37f06a1395ebb2937d7f45fbf13e5167
creating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/
inflating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/.gitignore
inflating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/.travis.yml
inflating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/README.md
creating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/Tests/
inflating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/Tests/CreateTestData.php
inflating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/Tests/bootstrap.php
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inflating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/themes/CleanFS/templates/shortcuts.tpl
inflating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/themes/CleanFS/templates/toplevel.tpl
inflating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/themes/CleanFS/theme.css
inflating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/themes/CleanFS/theme_print.css
inflating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/themes/CleanFS/typography.css
extracting: flyspray-1.0-rc6/themes/CleanFS/up.png
creating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/vendor/
inflating: flyspray-1.0-rc6/vendor/.htaccess
Change ownership and permission of the as Flyspray follows
linuxhelp ~ # ls @ flyspray-1.0-rc6 v1.0-rc6.zip linuxhelp ~ # chown -R www-data:www-data flyspray-1.0-rc6/ linuxhelp ~ # chmod -R 775 flyspray-1.0-rc6/
Navigate to the apache document root directory
linuxhelp ~ # mv flyspray-1.0-rc6/ /var/www/html/
Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the flyspray.
linuxhelp ~ # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim fly.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/ html/flyspray-1.0-rc6 /
<Directory /var/www/html/ flyspray-1.0-rc6 />
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
</Directory>
</virtualHost>
Enable the site access
linuxhelp sites-available # a2ensite fly.conf
Enabling site fly.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
service apache2 reload
Entry to the host file.
linuxhelp sites-available # vim /etc/hosts
<Give your ip > <Give your domain name>
Now install the composer.
linuxhelp flyspray-1.0-rc6 # composer install
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
- Installing ezyang/htmlpurifier (v4.8.0)
Downloading: 100%
- Installing dapphp/securimage (3.6.5)
Downloading: 100%
- Installing swiftmailer/swiftmailer (v5.4.9)
Downloading: 100%
- Installing adodb/adodb-php (v5.20.12)
Downloading: 100%
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> rm -rf vendor/dapphp/securimage/captcha.html vendor/dapphp/securimage/example_form.php vendor/dapphp/securimage/example_form.ajax.php vendor/dapphp/securimage/securimage_play.swf vendor/dapphp/securimage/examples/
> rm -rf vendor/dapphp/securimage/audio/*
> rm -rf vendor/dapphp/securimage/backgrounds/*
> echo '<?php return array("session_name"=>"flyspray"); ?>' > vendor/dapphp/securimage/config.inc.ph
Restart the apache service.
linuxhelp flyspray-1.0-rc6 # systemctl restart apache2.service
Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL: http://<ipaddress or domain name
Verify the prerequisites for installing flyspray as shown below
Configure the Database setup as follow
Configure the Admin user setup
The installation is completed. Now, click view site.
Now, click ‘;remove the folder / setup’;.
Now, you can use flyspray application.
Login page of flyspray.
After the Successful login, you will see the Admin dashboard of flySpray as shown below
With this, the method to install FlySpray on linuxmint-18.03 comes to an end
# composer install
# wget https://github.com/Flyspray/flyspray/archive/v1.0-rc6.zip
• Web-based, platform-independent
• Multiple database support
• Easy installation
• Easy to use
• Multiple projects
• File attachments
Flyspray has very few external dependencies and this makes it easier to install and maintain than something like Bugzilla. The following stuff are required to get Flyspray up and running:
Computer to act as a server. Our SSD VPS hosting plans are perfect for this.
Web Server like Apache, Nginx etc.. Apache is recommended
PHP web scripting language 5.2 or later
PHP-GD library
PHP-XML library
OpenSSL library
MySQL or PostgreSQL database server