MantisBT is an open-source issue tracker platform that helps teams manage and track software issues, bugs, and other tasks. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing MantisBT on POP! OS.
Before we can start installing MantisBT, the following prerequisites need to be satisfied:
You need to have root or sudo access to the POP! OS terminal.
Your POP! OS system needs to have a web server and PHP installed. You can install these packages using the following command:
sudo apt-get install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php
To download the latest MantisBT version, go to the official MantisBT website at https://www.mantisbt.org/ and navigate to the "Download" page.
Select the latest version of MantisBT that is compatible with your POP! OS system.
wget https://www.mantisbt.org/files/mantisbt-x.x.x.tar.gz
After downloading the MantisBT tarball file, extract its contents to the web root directory. The default web root directory is /var/www/html/.
sudo tar zxvf mantisbt-x.x.x.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/
Then set the ownership and permissions for MantisBT:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/mantisbt-x.x.x/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/mantisbt-x.x.x/
Next, we need to create a MySQL database for MantisBT. Login to your MySQL server:
mysql -u root -p
Create a new database named "mantisbt":
CREATE DATABASE mantisbt;
Create a new MySQL user and grant it full privileges to the "mantisbt" database:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mantisbt.* TO 'mantisbtuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Replace mantisbtuser and password with the desired values. Note that the localhost value assumes that you are running MySQL on the same machine where you are installing MantisBT.
Exit the MySQL prompt:
exit
To configure MantisBT, edit the config_inc.php file located in /var/www/html/mantisbt-x.x.x/config/.
sudo nano /var/www/html/mantisbt-x.x.x/config/config_inc.php
Find the following lines and set the appropriate values for your MySQL database and user:
$g_hostname = 'localhost';
$g_db_type = 'mysqli';
$g_database_name = 'mantisbt';
$g_db_username = 'mantisbtuser';
$g_db_password = 'password';
Save and exit the file.
Once the configuration is complete, you can access MantisBT by opening a web browser and navigating to http://your-server-address/mantisbt-x.x.x/. Replace "your-server-address" with the IP address or hostname of your POP! OS server.
You should see the MantisBT login page, where you can enter the administrator username and password that you set during the installation process.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed MantisBT on POP! OS!
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