Traq is a PHP-based project management tool designed for developers, allowing teams to track and manage their projects in one place. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Traq on a Fedora CoreOS system.
To continue with this tutorial, you need the following:
First, we will install Apache, PHP and PHP extensions on our Fedora CoreOS system.
To install Apache and PHP, run the following commands:
sudo rpm-ostree install httpd php php-mysqlnd php-gd php-ldap php-xml
This will install Apache with PHP and some necessary PHP extensions.
Traq uses a database to store all project information. In this tutorial, we will be using MariaDB as our database.
To install MariaDB, run the following command:
sudo rpm-ostree install mariadb mariadb-server
This will install MariaDB and its server component.
Before we create a new database for Traq, we need to secure our MariaDB installation by running the following command:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Follow the prompts to configure MariaDB security.
Next, create a new database and user for Traq:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter the root password when prompted. Once logged in, create a new database called traqdb:
CREATE DATABASE traqdb;
Create a new user and grant them access to the database:
CREATE USER 'traqdbuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON traqdb.* TO 'traqdbuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Make sure to replace your_password with an actual password.
We will now download Traq from the official website. You can visit the Traq website by navigating to https://traq.io/ .
Once the website loads, click on the Download button and save the zip file to your system.
Unzip the downloaded file to the Apache web root directory:
sudo unzip traq*.zip -d /var/www/html/
sudo mv /var/www/html/traq* /var/www/html/traq
This will create a new directory traq in the /var/www/html/ directory.
Now that Traq is installed, we need to configure it to connect to our MariaDB database.
To do this, edit the config.php file located in the \traq\app\configs directory:
sudo nano /var/www/html/traq/app/configs/config.php
Update the following settings:
$config['db.host'] = 'localhost';
$config['db.user'] = 'traqdbuser';
$config['db.password'] = 'your_password';
$config['db.name'] = 'traqdb';
Make sure to replace your_password with the database user password you created earlier.
Save and close the file.
By default, SELinux is enabled on Fedora CoreOS, and this may prevent Traq from working properly. We can configure SELinux to allow Traq to work properly as follows:
sudo setsebool -P httpd_execmem 1
sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db 1
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/var/www/html/traq/app/libs/Data/Cache(/.*)?"
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/var/www/html/traq/app/libs/Data/Logs(/.*)?"
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/var/www/html/traq/app/plugins(/.*)?"
sudo restorecon -Rv /var/www/html/traq
sudo systemctl restart httpd
Traq is now installed and ready to use. To access it, navigate to http://<your_server_ip>/traq in your web browser.
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Traq on a Fedora CoreOS system. We also secured our MariaDB installation, downloaded and configured Traq, and enabled SELinux to allow Traq to function properly.
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