Redmine
March 31, 2009 – 1:31 pmThe last few days I reworked on my http://www.redmine.org installation. Pewww! Pretty cool stuff . =)
Redmine is really, really feature-rich … in the deepest sense of this phrase: issue tracking, forum, wiki, news, … can’t image any item missing. And even more: themeable! He-hoo!!! I would recommend this gem of software as No#1 for any software developer. Take a look: http://projects.dyle.org!
This is really a great piece of software! I appreciate it. Much more comprehensive and cleaner than Trac I used before. I mean: trac is not bad, but redmine is clearly superior.
The only obstacles I encountered was combining my apache server with the ruby-on-rails redmine app. Currently I’m running Phusion Passenger 2.1.2 (http://www.modrails.com/). Most sites recommend mongrel to use with ruby on rails but I thought I would like to have several different webapps running on the very same apache instance on *:80. See … everything you can find on my website X.dyle.org is serviced by a single apache …
So I got into Phusion Passenger. I ran into several problems. The final one was giving me a “500 Internal Server Error” over and over again. The /var/log/apache2/error.log hinting towards a permission problem within the session subfolder of the redmine webapp. But this was not true! I su-ed www-root and created, touched, mv-ed and rm-ed files in right that folder. No problem. Only after I chown the whole webapp-folder to www-data this problem was fixed.
So I reported this on the Issue tracker of phusion passenger http://code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail?id=232 but — sadly — Hongli Lai rejected the issue, by quite stumbling into the very same pit I was in the last few days. *Sigh* well … maybe he comes back one day to this. I don’t care.