ZenTao is an open-source project management software that enables users to manage their projects, tasks, bugs, and documents. It's free, easy to use, and powerful. If you're interested in installing ZenTao on your Elementary OS Latest machine, then follow the steps below.
ZenTao requires Apache and PHP to run, so the first thing you need to do is to install Apache and PHP on your machine. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php
ZenTao uses MySQL as its database management system, so you need to install MySQL on your machine. Run the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
During the installation, you'll be asked to create a root password. Make sure to remember this password as you'll need it later.
Go to the ZenTao website at https://www.zentao.pm/download.html and download the latest ZenTao package. You can either choose the tar.gz or the zip package.
Once the download is complete, extract the package to the /var/www/html directory. You can do this by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo tar -xzvf zentao.tar.gz -C /var/www/html
Replace zentao.tar.gz with the name of the ZenTao package you downloaded.
After extracting the ZenTao package, you need to configure it. Go to the /var/www/html/zentao directory and rename the zentaopms.6.2.2 directory to zentaopms.
cd /var/www/html/zentao
sudo mv zentaopms.6.2.2 zentaopms
Next, go to the /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d directory and open the mysqld.cnf file in a text editor. Look for the bind-address parameter and comment it out by adding a # at the beginning of the line. Save and close the file.
sudo nano /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
Restart the MySQL service by running the following command:
sudo service mysql restart
Next, create a new MySQL user and grant it full privileges to the ZenTao database. Replace dbname with the name of your ZenTao database and password with your MySQL root password.
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE dbname;
CREATE USER 'zenuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbname.* TO 'zenuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Finally, go to the /var/www/html/zentao directory and edit the database.php file. Replace dbname with the name of your ZenTao database, zenuser with the username of your MySQL user, and password with the password of your MySQL user.
sudo nano /var/www/html/zentao/config/my.php
You're now ready to access ZenTao. Open your web browser and go to http://localhost/zentao. You should see the ZenTao installation wizard. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed ZenTao on your Elementary OS Latest machine!
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