Redmine installer

Warning

❗ THIS TOOL IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED. Easy Software Ltd. has stopped maintaining this tool. We are switching to dockerized installation and upgrade process. Please use our docker images for installation.

Feel free to contact our support if you have any questions.

Easy way hot to install/upgrade Redmine, Easy Redmine or Easy Project.

Please do not run installer on background. It may happen that process will be paused by some event. For example database may require enter password during backuping database.

⚠️ Current version support only ruby 3.1.2, Percona 8 as DB server and redmine 5.0.3+

Version v3.x is designed primarily for work with Easy Redmine / Easy Project v12.x.

Installation

Install tool into your server environment by:

gem install redmine-installer

⚠️ Version v3.0.0 and higher require ruby 3.1.2 and its designed for Easy Redmine / Easy Project v12 and Redmine 5.0.3+ respectively.

Examples

To display global documentation for installer.

redmine help

You can also check more detailed documentation for each command.

redmine help [COMMAND]

Environment checker

Check your server environment if it meets our requirements for best Easy Redmine experience.

redmine env_check

Installing

Create new project on empty directory. All argument are optional. Directory should be empty because installer delete all content for ensuring correct installation. If directory does not exist, current user must have privileges to create it.

redmine help install
redmine install [PACKAGE PATH or URL] [REDMINE_ROOT] [options]

--bundle-options OPTIONS   Options for bundle install
--silent                   Less verbose installation

Examples:

Install Redmine. Installer will ask for every required parameters.

• redmine install

Install Redmine from internet

• redmine install https://server.tld/REDMINE_PACKAGE.zip /srv/redmine

Install Redmine from redmine.zip package into /srv/redmine folder.

• redmine install redmine.zip /srv/redmine

Install Redmine without rmgaick dependencies.

• redmine install redmine.zip /srv/redmine --bundle-options "--without rmagick"

Upgrading

Upgrade existing project with new package. Full and correct upgrading is ensured by these steps:

1. project is build on temporary directory
2. previous root is deleted
3. projects is moved to target location

Since current root is deleted you should use option --keep if you want preserved some files.

redmine help upgrade
redmine upgrade [PACKAGE PATH or URL] [REDMINE_ROOT] [options]

--bundle-options OPTIONS   Options for bundle install
--silent                   Less verbose upgrading
--profile PROFILE_ID       Using saved profile
--keep PATH(s)             Keep selected files or directories

Examples:

Upgrade Redmine located on /srv/redmine with package redmine2.zip

• redmine upgrade redmine2.zip /srv/redmine

Upgrade Redmine from internet

• redmine upgrade https://server.tld/REDMINE_PACKAGE.zip /srv/redmine

Upgrade Redmine and keep directory.

• redmine upgrade redmine2.zip /srv/redmine --keep directory_i_want_keep

Once you've saved profile you can use previouse "answer" again.

• redmine upgrade redmine2.zip /srv/redmine --profile 1

Backuping

Backup existing project. You can backup full redmine with database or just database.

redmine help backup
redmine backup [REDMINE_ROOT]

Examples:

Backup project located in /srv/redmine

• redmine upgrade /srv/redmine

Restoring database

Restore database dump to redmine.

redmine help restore-db
redmine restore-db DATABASE_DUMP [REDMINE_ROOT] [options]

Examples:

Restore database db.dump for redmine in /srv/redmine

• redmine restore-db db.dump /srv/redmine

Testing

Just run:

docker compose up --build --exit-code-from redmine_installer

This will build docker image from current code and run tests against percona8.

note: Require Docker of course.