Patrick Wolf's picture
Patrick Wolf - Mon, 2010/01/04 - 08:07

Hi,

just downloaded your Redmine virtual appliance.

I love the webmine interface and that subversion, https etc. is preinstalled!! Thanks.

I was wondering how could I update to the latest stable version of redmine 0.8.7 since the appliance is at 0.8.4?

Thanks a lot,

Patrick

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Neil Aggarwal's picture

Neil Aggarwal - Mon, 2010/01/04 - 09:32

I have not tried it on the redmine appliance, but apt-get update should pull in all the latest packages available.

Liraz Siri's picture

Liraz Siri - Mon, 2010/01/04 - 22:19
As the accompanying notes for the Redmine appliance document, Redmine is installed from an upstream tarball, which is extracted to /var/www. Unfortunately Redmine is currently not supported in Ubuntu/Debian so you can't use the package manager.

First make a backup of your database and current /var/www directory. Then download a new tarball, extract it to /var/www and follow the instructions here:

http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/RedmineUpgrade

Haven't tried it myself but it should work. Tell us how it goes.

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doftorul - Mon, 2010/11/22 - 20:31

 

*Execute the commands as root (sudo)

* The upgrade process can take a while, be patient while the stack is updated (gem, apt-get)

1. Stopping Apache

 
# /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
 
2. Some maintenance on the Ruby stack
 
# gem update --system

# gem install rails -v=2.3.5

# gem install rack -v=1.0.1

# apt-get install librmagick-ruby
 
(librmagick-ruby needed for the Redmine RMagick - avoiding to install full 126 MB package of imagemagick libs)
 
3. Create a "restore point" - OLD version for backup purposes
 
# cd /var/www/

# mv railsapp railsappOLD
 
4. Checkout the latest stable Redmine branch
	# cd /var/www/

# svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/1.0-stable railsapp
 
5. Copy config files from the OLD to the upgraded version
	# cd /var/www/

# cp ./railsappOLD/config/database.yml  ./railsapp/config/database.yml

# cp ./railsappOLD/config/email.yml  ./railsapp/config/email.yml

# cp -r ./railsappOLD/files ./railsapp/files
 
6. Setting appropiate permission files
 
# chown -R root:www-data /var/www/railsapp

# cd /var/www/railsapp

# chown -R www-data:www-data files log tmp
7. Some Ruby&co maintenance - migration
 
# rake generate_session_store

# rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production

# chown -R www-data:www-data files log tmp public/plugin_assets

# rake db:migrate:upgrade_plugin_migrations RAILS_ENV=production

# rake db:migrate_plugins RAILS_ENV=production

# chmod -R 755 files log/ tmp/ public/plugin_assets

# rake tmp:cache:clear

# rake tmp:sessions:clear
 
8. Fix the infamous "uninitialized constant PhusionPassenger::Utils::PseudoIO::StringIO" error
 

Open /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb in your favorite editor and on top of the first "required...." line add the following:

required='stringio'
i'm using nano as the editor, the example command line is:
# nano /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb
 
9. Restart Apache and enjoy !
 
/etc/init.d/apache2 start
 
Tested succesfully on vanilla VM install - 10.2 on VMWare Workstation, VMWare ESX4, KVM, VirtualBox
 
Credits goes to all the posters in the topic as the sequence is compiled based mainly on their contributions.
 
Best regards, 
Doftorul

Fide Sed Cui Vide

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Dirk Plantikow - Sun, 2010/02/14 - 13:34

Hallo, yesterday, I upgraded my Redmine Virtual Appliance 2009.10 (Redmine 0.8.7) to Redmine 0.9.2 like desbribed in http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/RedmineUpgrade. It was very easy, although I'm not trained on the Commandline. My german manual you can find at anleitung-upgrade-redmine.pdf

 
Roy Feldman's picture

Roy Feldman - Sun, 2010/02/14 - 08:45

I also just upgraded to 0.9.2 and it was very easy. Before you follow the RedmineUpgrade instructions, be careful to upgrade Rails to the correct version for Redmine 0.9.2.

To do that, log in as root and issue the following two commands

 

# gem install rails -v=2.3.5 (Be patient with this command)

# gem install rack -v=1.0.1

 

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Paul D Parisi - Wed, 2010/03/17 - 05:44

I am going crazy... I think.

I downloaded the Redmine VM today and I followed the above, execellent suggestions and upgraded to 0.9.3 and it went pretty well. I did hit one error which required I edit lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb and insert

require 'stringio'

at the top

And everything seemed to work fine. Email worked. I created a whole bunch of issues. Now two hours later I am trying to login and I get a big purple

Ruby on Rails application could not be started

With the following:

Error message:
syntax error on line 68, col 0: `production:'
Exception class:
ArgumentError
Application root:
/var/www/railsapp
Backtrace:
# File Line Location
0 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb 133 in `load'
1 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb 133 in `load'
2 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb 144 in `load_file'
3 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb 143 in `open'
4 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb 143 in `load_file'
5 /var/www/railsapp/config/initializers/40-email.rb 6  
6 /var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb 147 in `load_without_new_constant_marking'
7 /var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb 147 in `load'
8 /var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb 622 in `load_application_initializers'
9 /var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb 621 in `each'
10 /var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb 621 in `load_application_initializers'
11 /var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb 176 in `process'
12 /var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb 113 in `send'
13 /var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb 113 in `run'
14 /var/www/railsapp/config/environment.rb 20  
15 /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb 31 in `gem_original_require'
16 /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb 31 in `require'
17 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/application_spawner.rb 303 in `preload_application'
18 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/application_spawner.rb 252 in `initialize_server'
19 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb 255 in `report_app_init_status'
20 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/application_spawner.rb 237 in `initialize_server'
21 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb 194 in `start_synchronously'
22 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb 163 in `start'
23 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/application_spawner.rb 213 in `start'
24 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb 262 in `spawn_rails_application'
25 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb 126 in `lookup_or_add'
26 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb 256 in `spawn_rails_application'
27 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb 80 in `synchronize'
28 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb 79 in `synchronize'
29 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb 255 in `spawn_rails_application'
30 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb 154 in `spawn_application'
31 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb 287 in `handle_spawn_application'
32 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb 352 in `__send__'
33 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb 352 in `main_loop'
34 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb 196 in `start_synchronously'
35 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/bin/passenger-spawn-server 61

This is my first ever time working with Ruby so I HAVEN'T GOT A CLUE!

 

I did try to restart the VM and same issue comes up.

 

HELP.

Thanks,

Paul.

Danilo Pires's picture

Danilo Pires - Sun, 2010/05/30 - 15:16

Download the 0.9.4 version 

cd /var/www/

wget -c http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/70486/redmine-0.9.4.tar.gz

 
Before beggining - Do the backups (MySQL, Redmine Folder and the /var/www/railsapp/files folder that contains all the files added to your projects) - For more details search google for mysqldump or even use the Webmin module for MySQL management inside the TurnKey Redmine.
 
 
The 17 steps:
 
1 - Rename the old railapps folder to railsappsWHATEVER
 
2 - Uncompress and copy the new redmine folder to the /var/www
 
3 - Rename the new redmine to railsapp
 
4 - Copy the files database.yml and email.yml of the old installation to the new one.
(inside the /var/www/railsapp/config folder)
 
5 - Copy also the /files folder that you made the backup from the old installation to the new new one - /var/www/railsapp/files
 
6 - sudo chown -R root:www-data /var/www/railsapp 
 
7 - cd /var/www/railsapp
 
8 - sudo chown -R www-data:www-data files log tmp public/plugin_assets"
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
9 - sudo chmod -R 755 files log/ tmp/ public/plugin_assets
 
10 - gem install rails -v=2.3.5 (this command takes a little time - be patient)
 
11 - gem install rack -v=1.0.1
 
12 - rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
13 - rake db:migrate:upgrade_plugin_migrations RAILS_ENV=production 
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
14 - rake db:migrate_plugins RAILS_ENV=production
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
15 - rake tmp:cache:clear
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
16 - rake tmp:sessions:clear
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
17 - Restart and enjoy it (sudo reboot)
Danilo Pires's picture

Danilo Pires - Thu, 2010/06/24 - 16:26

Thanks GaMa for the correction, indeed I forgot this session store

Danilo Pires's picture

Danilo Pires - Thu, 2010/06/24 - 16:30

 

 
 
1 - Rename the old railapps folder to railsappsWHATEVER
 
2 - Copy the new redmine folder to the /var/www
 
3 - Rename the new redmine to railsapp
 
4 - Copy the files database.yml and email.yml of the old installation to the new one.
(inside the /var/www/railsapp/config folder)
 
5 - Copy also the /files folder that you made the backup from the old installation to the new new one - /var/www/railsapp/files
 
6 - sudo chown -R root:www-data /var/www/railsapp 
 
7 - cd /var/www/railsapp
 
8 - sudo chown -R www-data:www-data files log tmp
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
9 - gem install rails -v=2.3.5 (this command takes a little time - be patient)
 
10 - gem install rack -v=1.0.1
 
11 - rake generate_session_store
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
12 - rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
13 - sudo chown -R www-data:www-data files log tmp public/plugin_assets
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
14 - rake db:migrate:upgrade_plugin_migrations RAILS_ENV=production 
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
15 - rake db:migrate_plugins RAILS_ENV=production
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
16 - sudo chmod -R 755 files log/ tmp/ public/plugin_assets
 
17 - rake tmp:cache:clear
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
18 - rake tmp:sessions:clear
(inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
 
19 - Restart and enjoy it (sudo reboot)
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Jake Dyson - Sat, 2010/07/17 - 16:22



# ----------------------------------------
# Credit to Danilo Pires!
# Upgrade Redmine 0.8.4 to 0.9-stable
# ----------------------------------------
# Basically It's his "update-manual" turned into a script for simple copy&paste.
#
# Only real change is to redmine version 0.9-stable
# ----------------------------------------
# edit:
# svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.9-stable railsapp
# instead of 
# wget -c http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/71421/redmine-0.9.5.tar.gz
# (edit is not tested)
# ----------------------------------------
# Advice from Danilo Pires:
# Before beggining - Do the backups (MySQL, Redmine Folder and the
# /var/www/railsapp/files folder that contains all the files added to your projects)
# - For more details search google for mysqldump or even use the Webmin
#   module for MySQL management inside the TurnKey Redmine.
# ----------------------------------------




#1
cd /var/www
svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.9-stable railsapp
#2
mv railsapp railsappOLD
#3
tar xvfz redmine-0.9.5.tar.gz
#4
mv redmine-0.9.5 railsapp
#5
cp ./railsappOLD/config/database.yml  ./railsapp/config/database.yml
cp ./railsappOLD/config/email.yml  ./railsapp/config/email.yml

#6
# This and the backup-part are not really tested since I did it on a fresh install
cp -r ./railsappOLD/files ./railsapp/files

#7
sudo chown -R root:www-data /var/www/railsapp

#8
cd /var/www/railsapp

#9 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data files log tmp

#10 (this command takes a little time - be patient)
gem install rails -v=2.3.5
#11
gem install rack -v=1.0.1
#12 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
rake generate_session_store

#13 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production

#14 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data files log tmp public/plugin_assets

#15 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
rake db:migrate:upgrade_plugin_migrations RAILS_ENV=production

#16 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
rake db:migrate_plugins RAILS_ENV=production
 
#17
sudo chmod -R 755 files log/ tmp/ public/plugin_assets
 
#18 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
rake tmp:cache:clear

#19 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
rake tmp:sessions:clear

#20 - Restart and enjoy it
sudo reboot
 


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Adrian VanRassel - Wed, 2010/07/14 - 05:19

Don't use 0.9.5, it has a security hole in svn.  Use 0.9.6

I found using SVN is a lot more easier and quicker to update than using the traditional method.  I would still back up everything though.

Instead of doing the wget command, use

svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.9-stable railsapp

From there, continue normally.  Now when you want to update, just type this in the install path

svn update

Danilo Pires's picture

Danilo Pires - Sat, 2010/07/17 - 06:28

As Adrian said, SVN is also for me the best and easier way to do a upgrade. But unfortunatelly is disabled by default on turnkeylinux redmine stack ( I still can figure out why ).

That's why is necessary the first method that I wrote down.

So just change the first step to the one described by Adrian:

 

svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.9-stable railsapp

And then continue with the next steps.

 

After that the SVN version of Redmine can be always updated with the simple command:

 

	svn update
 
GREAT JOB Adrian!!! I love when everybody work togheter for the good of the comunity.
Adrian VanRassel's picture

Adrian VanRassel - Sun, 2010/07/18 - 07:28

You just made my day epic :)


Danilo Pires's picture

Danilo Pires - Fri, 2010/07/23 - 22:02

Hi guys. Anyone there was able to install the Gitosis and Budget Plugins on Redmine.

 

I lost a few nights trying this, specially with the Gitosis. Nowadays what I use is an external Revision Control (Revision Control VM from TurnKey) and a Redmine Stack. I have a scheduled job to pull every 10 minutes the main repo from the revision stack. This Gitosis plugin would make my life much easier, making my own GitHub server =).

The Budget Plugin keeps always giving me the message:

 

Internal error

An error occurred on the page you were trying to access.
If you continue to experience problems please contact your redMine administrator for assistance.

 

 

Hope to hear from you ASAP.

 

Thanks. Have all a nice weekend.

Danilo Pires's picture

Danilo Pires - Fri, 2010/07/30 - 00:08

Thanks for the tips. I'll take a look at gitolite.

The only doubt I have is: Can I use any plugin to integrate it with redmine?! What I really would like is to make a GitHub like internal server. This script for gitosis and redmine let (at least in theory) the administrator to integrate the user registration, ssh key and permitions of both systems.

There's a lot of bug reports of files locking problems with redmine-gitosis-plugin.

I didn't know Gitosis was deprecated. Thanks for the advice and I'll make the migration ASAP. Once I get everything done I'll post a new message.

Thanks again.

Danilo Pires's picture

Danilo Pires - Thu, 2010/11/04 - 13:31

Thanks Alon for the support to Babbo.

Babbo, as explained by Alon, the best way to do the redmine procedure without a machine or VM reboot is by simply restart of the apache process, or the stop and start - with the same result (at least in theory) =).

The first one as described before is done with the command above:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

 

The second one is:

/etc/init.d/apache2 stop    and

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

 

Thanks everyone for the fast answers on this topic.

C ya.

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