Installing a issue tracking

After finding a Issue Tracker, the next thing is to figure out where to install it.

Pusku server seemed a good option. The first thing I had to do was to fix the permissions in my home directory, so I could publish pages in the apache server. The default didn't allow apache to CD into my home dir.

This was done with the command:

chmod 701 .

Next, I downloaded one Issue Tracker:

wget http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mantisbt/mantis-1.0.7.tar.gz

Mantis is self-contained and since I had used it before I though it was a good idea to give it a try.

The installation process is simple, the instructions can be found in:

http://manual.mantisbugtracker.com/manual.installation.php

Basically you extract the file, move it to your webserver folder (in my case public_html under my home folder) and open the configuration script on the browser. It can be found in:

http://yoursite/mantis/admin/install.php

There were some issues in the installation:

1. The hostname for the DB server had to be specified as 'localhost' otherwise the installation failled. It seens that my user doesn't have permissions to use the database from other hosts.
2. The file 'mantis/config_inc.php' could not be created by the script. Had to create it manually. Again a permissions issue.
3. Email is disabled from PHP in the server. To avoid error messages, I disabled it in the application. This is done by adding the line: $g_enable_email_notification = 'off';
   to 'config_inc.php'
   

After installing, the default administrator user have to be disabled and the /admin directory under mantis have to be deleted.

The bug tracking system is available at the URI:
http://pusku.helia.fi/~h00432/mantis/login_page.php

Arthur and I are administrators to the system and can create new users.