====== How I installed Request Tracker 3.8.2 on Debian Lenny ====== My first hints and pointers were from the poorly formatted guide at: * http://wiki.bestpractical.com/view/DebianLennyInstallGuide ===== Basic prerequisites ===== Install "providing" software. By this, I mean software that is needed to compile software, serve data to the web, test the data served, and communicate with the world. <code> apt-get install build-essential bzip2 \ gcc libncurses5 libncurses5-dev bin86 gawk \ ncurses-dev initramfs-tools \ zlib1g zlib1g-dev binutils sudo apt-get install openssl apache2 mysql-server-5.0 \ libapache2-mod-perl2 curl lftp lynx \ mlocate makepatch wget gpgv libgpgme11 \ libgpgme11-dev libgpg-error0 libgpg-error-dev \ libapache2-mod-fcgid libcgi-fast-perl libfcgi-perl libfcgi-dev sudo apt-get install fetchmail </code> Install and configure an MTA. I prefer to use postfix, and in my setup, the postfix installation is configured to use a smarthost to send mail out to the world. <code> sudo apt-get install postfix </code> ===== Perl prerequisites... ===== Next up is a shockingly long list of development- and perl-dependencies. The commands below are split into chunks that the BASH shell will accept, but the order, and eventual dependency satification is not taken into consideration. I.e. the list is for completeness. Your mileage may vary on what you actually need to install. ==== OS packaged perl-dependencies ==== <code> sudo apt-get install libc6-dev libc-dev gcc-4.1-base libmudflap0 libmudflap0-dev libxml-dom-perl libxml-encoding-perl libxml-parser-perl \ libxml-perl libxml-regexp-perl libxml-um-perl \ libxml-handler-composer-perl libxml-generator-perl sudo apt-get install libapache-dbi-perl libapache-session-perl \ libcalendar-simple-perl libconvert-binhex-perl libcss-squish-perl \ libdatetime-format-mail-perl libdatetime-format-w3cdtf-perl \ libdatetime-locale-perl libdatetime-perl \ libdatetime-timezone-perl libdbd-sqlite3-perl \ libdbix-searchbuilder-perl liberror-perl libexception-class-perl \ libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl libgd-graph-perl libgd-text-perl sudo apt-get install libhtml-mason-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl \ libmime-tools-perl libmodule-versions-report-perl libnet-libidn-perl \ libnet-ssleay-perl libparams-validate-perl libregexp-common-perl \ libcache-cache-perl libcache-simple-timedexpiry-perl \ libclass-accessor-perl libclass-container-perl \ libclass-data-inheritable-perl libclass-returnvalue-perl sudo apt-get install libclass-singleton-perl libclone-perl libdbix-dbschema-perl \ libdevel-stacktrace-perl libfreezethaw-perl libipc-sharelite-perl \ libwant-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl libtext-autoformat-perl \ libtext-quoted-perl libtext-reform-perl libtext-template-perl sudo apt-get install libtext-wikiformat-perl libtext-wrapper-perl libtime-modules-perl \ libtree-simple-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-rss-perl \ libxml-sax-expat-perl libxml-sax-perl libxml-simple-perl \ libxml-namespacesupport-perl </code> ==== CPAN setup ==== Now, prepare your Perl CPAN setup, as Request Tracker installation __will__ use CPAN to pull in even more dependencies! Here follows a somewhat complete(ish) summary of my interaction with CPAN: [[guides:rt3.8:CPAN]] ===== Download & unpack Request Tracker ===== Now, download and unpack Request Tracker, the latest release: <code> wget http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/ tar zxvf rt.tar.gz cd rt-3.* </code> ===== Setting up the source tree ===== The following code sets up my RT install to dump the instance files into the dir /opt/rt/defcon, and use MySQL for storage <code> ./configure \ --prefix=/opt/rt/defcon \ --enable-gd \ --enable-gpg \ --with-db-type=mysql \ </code> Test for dependencies. This will fail, even though we have run a fairly thorough pre-install... The output below is an excerpt, showing only the packages that failed on my test-run. <code> make testdeps Locale::Maketext::Lexicon >= 0.32...MISSING Text::Template >= 1.45...MISSING Text::Template version 1.45 required--this is only version 1.44 File::ShareDir...MISSING Locale::Maketext::Fuzzy...MISSING Log::Dispatch >= 2.0...MISSING UNIVERSAL::require...MISSING Email::Address...MISSING HTML::RewriteAttributes >= 0.02...MISSING CGI >= 3.38...MISSING CGI version 3.38 required--this is only version 3.29 PerlIO::eol...MISSING GnuPG::Interface...MISSING Data::ICal...MISSING Net::Server::PreFork...MISSING Net::Server...MISSING HTTP::Server::Simple >= 0.34...MISSING HTTP::Server::Simple::Mason >= 0.09...MISSING make: *** [testdeps] Error 1 </code> Use RT's own helper to satisfy the missing dependencies: <code> sudo make fixdeps </code> This uses CPAN to pull in the missing or out-dated Perl modules. After a successful run, rerun make testdeps, and you shuld get: <code> All dependencies have been found. </code> ===== Installation ===== Time to do the actual installation: <code> sudo make install ... </code> ===== Configuration of RT ===== You must now configure RT by editing /opt/rt/defcon/etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm. WARNING: Never, EVER, change RT_Config.pm. All your changes need to be put in RT_SiteConfig.pm. (You will definitely need to set RT's database password in /opt/rt/defcon/etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm before continuing. Not doing so could be very dangerous. Note that you do not have to manually add a database user or set up a database for RT. These actions will be taken care of in the next step.) So, the natural next step is to open $PREFIX/etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm in your favourite text-editor, and decide on the basic setting of this instance... <code> # What RT instance? Set($rtname, 'Ticket'); Set($Organization , "defcon.no"); # Default email adresses Set($CorrespondAddress , 'rt@defcon.no'); Set($CommentAddress , 'rt-comment@defcon.no'); # How to handle time (timezone setting) Set($Timezone , 'CET'); # Database setup #Set($DatabaseHost , 'localhost'); #Set($DatabaseRTHost , 'localhost'); #Set($DatabasePort , ''); Set($DatabaseType, 'mysql'); Set($DatabaseUser , 'rt_user'); Set($DatabasePassword , 'password'); Set($DatabaseName , 'rt_database'); # Who is owner/admin of this instance? Set($OwnerEmail , 'rtowner@defcon.no'); Set($LoopsToRTOwner , 1); # Max allowed attachments, up from 10MB to 20MB Set($MaxAttachmentSize , 20000000); # Where do we exist on the web? Set($WebDomain, 'rt.home.defcon.no'); # RT resides on the root of the previous name... Set($WebPath, ""); </code> ===== Initialize the RT database ===== <code> sudo make initialize-database </code> ===== Configure HTTPd ===== I am using Apache2, and running RT through mod_perl. Note the PerlRequire, SetHandler and PerlResponseHandler. Without these, your RT will __not__ work. <code> # /etc/apache2/sites-available/rt.home.defcon.no <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName rt.home.defcon.no DocumentRoot /opt/rt/defcon/share/html PerlRequire "/opt/rt/defcon/bin/webmux.pl" <Location /> AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 SetHandler perl-script PerlResponseHandler RT::Mason </Location> </VirtualHost> </code> As this is a Debian Lenny system, I used the Debian helper tools to enable all needed apache2 related configurations: <code> sudo /usr/sbin/a2enmod perl sudo /usr/sbin/a2enmod rewrite sudo /usr/sbin/a2ensite rt.home.defcon.no sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload </code> ===== First look at the installed RT ===== Go to the address you have configured in Apache, DNS and RT_SiteConfig.pm, and you should be greeted with the login-box of RT3.8! Log in as "root" with password "password". Now SET A NEW PASSWORD ! (!) * Preferences * About me * Password * New passord * Retype passord ===== Post install setup ===== That's not all, but it is all for now... ==== Overriding the footer ==== <code> web:/opt/rt/defcon# mkdir local/html/Elements web:/opt/rt/defcon# cp share/html/Elements/Footer local/html/Elements/ web:/opt/rt/defcon# vim local/html/Elements/Footer </code> ==== Setting up default permissions ==== ==== Adding a few queues ====