MantisBT is an open source issue-tracking system that provides a user-friendly web interface. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing MantisBT on Alpine Linux.
Before installing any software on your system, it is recommended to update the system. You can do this using the following command:
sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade
This command will update all the packages already installed on your system to their latest version.
In order to install MantisBT on Alpine Linux, you need to install some required packages first. Run the following command:
sudo apk add nginx mariadb mariadb-client php7 php7-fpm php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-json php7-gd php7-ldap php7-xml php7-mbstring
This command will install the necessary packages for MantisBT to work properly on your system.
MantisBT requires a database to store its data. We will be using MariaDB for this purpose. To create a new database, run the following command:
sudo mysql -uroot -p
This will open up the MySQL shell. Run the following command to create a new database:
CREATE DATABASE mantisbt;
You can replace "mantisbt" with any other name you like for your database. Next, create a new user and grant all the privileges to the newly created database. You can do this using the following commands:
CREATE USER 'mantisbtuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
GRANT ALL ON mantisbt.* TO 'mantisbtuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Replace "yourpassword" with the password you want to use for your user.
Next, download the latest version of MantisBT from their official website. You can use the following command to download it:
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/mantisbt/files/mantis-stable/2.25.2/mantisbt-2.25.2.tar.gz/download -O mantisbt.tar.gz
This command will download the latest stable release of MantisBT to your system. Extract the downloaded archive using the following command:
tar -zxvf mantisbt.tar.gz -C /var/www/
This command will extract the contents of the archive to the "/var/www" directory.
MantisBT requires some PHP extensions to be enabled. Open the "/etc/php7/php.ini" file and add the following lines at the end of the file:
extension=pdo_mysql.so
extension=gd.so
extension=ldap.so
extension=xml.so
extension=mbstring.so
Save the file and close it.
Next, we need to configure Nginx to serve the MantisBT application. Create a new virtual host configuration file with the following command:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/mantisbt.conf
Add the following configuration to the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourdomain.com;
root /var/www/mantisbt/;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Replace "yourdomain.com" with your domain name or IP address. Save the file and close it.
Start the necessary services for mantisBT to work:
sudo service nginx start
sudo service php-fpm start
Open your web browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com/ or http://your-server-ip/. Follow the on-screen instructions to configure and set up MantisBT.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed MantisBT on Alpine Linux.
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