Traq is a PHP-powered free and open-source project management tool that simplifies collaboration among teams. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Traq on Elementary OS latest version.
Before we proceed, ensure that the following requirements are met:
First, we need to install the LAMP stack on our Elementary OS. LAMP is an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
At your terminal, run the following command:
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install lamp-server^
You will be prompted to enter a MySQL root password during installation.
We recommend setting up the firewall on your system by enabling HTTP and HTTPS traffic. You can do this by running the following:
sudo ufw allow http
sudo ufw allow https
sudo ufw reload
We need to install Git to download the Traq files. Run the command below in your terminal:
sudo apt-get install git
Once Git is successfully installed, clone the Traq repository on GitHub to your home directory by running this command:
cd ~/
git clone https://github.com/traq/traq.git
This will download all the necessary files for Traq into a "traq" directory in your home folder.
Next, we need to move the traq directory into Apache's root directory so that it can be served by our webserver.
sudo mv ~/traq /var/www/html/traq
To enable Apache to access the Traq directory, change ownership of the directory recursively:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/traq
We need to now create a new MySQL database and user for Traq.
Login to MySQL by running the command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
And then in MySQL shell, create a new MySQL database:
CREATE DATABASE traq;
Next, create the user and grant full access permissions:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON traq.* TO 'traq'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password_here';
After running the command, remember to replace "your_password_here" with your chosen password.
The Traq configuration file in the cloned Traq directory template with the name config.php.tmpl. We will copy this file, rename it as config.php, and modify it to fit our installation.
cd /var/www/html/traq/
sudo cp config.php.tmpl config.php
Next, open the file using your preferred code editor and enter the following:
<?php
$settings = array(
'db_adapter' => 'mysql',
'db_hostname' => 'localhost',
'db_database' => 'traq',
'db_username' => 'traq',
'db_password' => 'your_password_here',
'base_url' => 'http://localhost/traq',
'hash_secret' => 'random_string_here'
);
Note: Remember to replace 'your_password_here' and 'random_string_here' with your chosen values.
Once done, save and exit.
Finally, visit your browser and go to the URL http://localhost/traq/install/.
Follow the prompts to complete the installation process.
At this point, You should have Traq installed on your Elementary OS latest version. Traq has a wide range of features that can be customized through its settings. To learn more about Traq, kindly visit the official Traq website at https://traq.io/.
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