We’ll show you, How To Install Traq on Ubuntu 16.04. Traq is powerful project management and issue tracking system based on PHP. It is capable of handling multiple projects with per-project permissions, custom fields, milestones, email notifications and much more. In this tutorial we will show you how to install Traq on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with Apache and PHP.
Traq comes with a lot of useful features such as:
- Multiple projects
- Project milestones
- Atom feed
- Read and write API
- Powerful plugin system
- Filters
and many more…
In order to run Traq, your Ubuntu 16.04 VPS has to meet the following requirements:
- Web server
- PHP version 5.5 or later
- Mcrypt
- PostgreSQL or MariaDB/MySQL database server
In this tutorial we will install all of the requirements.
Let’s start with the installation. First of all make sure your server OS packages are fully up-to-date:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade apt-get install git
Run the following command on your Ubuntu VPS to install Apache web server
apt-get install apache2
Once Apache is installed, start it and enable it to start on boot
systemctl start apache2 systemctl enable apache2
Install PHP and few PHP modules required by Traq
apt-get install php php-common php-mcrypt
Next, install MySQL database server
apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
Enable the MySQL server to start on boot:
systemctl enable mysql
Once the installation is completed, it is recommended to execute the ‘mysql_secure_installation’ script, to secure your MySQL server and set a root password
Traq requires an empty database to store its data. Create a new MySQL database by logging in to the MySQL server and executing the following commands:
mysql -u root -p mysql> create database traqdb; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON traqdb.* TO 'traquser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Your_Password'; mysql> flush privileges; mysql> quit
Don’t forget to replace ‘Your_Password’ with an actual, strong password.
Change the current working directory to the document root directory and clone Traq from their official GitHub repository
cd /var/www/html/ git clone --recursive https://github.com/nirix/traq
And checkout the latest version
cd traq/ git checkout v3.6.0
To run Traq properly, create a new .htaccess file
vim .htaccess
With the following content
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]Set the correct ownership
chown -R www-data: /var/www/html/traq/
Create a new virtual host directive in Apache.
vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/traq.conf
with the following content
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin admin@your-domain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/traq/ ServerName your-domain.com ServerAlias www.your-domain.com <Directory /var/www/html/your-domain.com/> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-access_log common </VirtualHost>
Run the following command to enable the configuration file
a2ensite traq.conf
And restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect:
service apache2 restart
If you closely followed this tutorial, you will be able to access Traq by pointing your favorite web browser at http://your-domain.com . Traq’s web installation wizard will show up. Follow the wizard to complete the installation.
For more information and documentation about Traq, please visit their official website.
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