This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install GitScrum on Ubuntu 18.04 | 16.04 with Apache2 HTTP server.
GitScrum is a project management tool that will help you manage your complex projects with ease. When your business deals with large data with diverse teams, a robust project management tool with cool features should help you keep your work going while keeping your teams operation mode.
With GitScrum, businesses can triage and distribute work across teams in different departments based on email, calls, orders, projects, tasks, reminders, calendar events, and more.
Whether you’re a small or large enterprise, GitScrum can help your team communicate and collaborate. and these conversations will be available on the desktop, mobile devices and everywhere you have GitScrum installed.
This Tool designed for ease of use to allow businesses to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with users across multiple devices, including mobile.
For more about GitScrum, please check their Homepage
To get started with installing GitScrum, follow the steps below:
Step 1: Install Apache2 HTTP Server
GitScrum works a web server and Apache2 HTTP server is the most popular open source web server available today. To install and use Apache2 with GitScrum, run the commands below:
sudo apt update sudo apt install apache2
After installing Apache2, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable Apache2 service to always start up with the server boots.
sudo systemctl stop apache2.service sudo systemctl start apache2.service sudo systemctl enable apache2.service
To test whether Apache2 is installed and working, simply open your browser and browse to the hostname or IP address of the server.
After browsing the the server hostname and you see a page above similar as above, then Apache2 is working as expected.
Step 2: Install MariaDB Database Server
GitScrum also requires a database server to store its content. If you’re looking for a truly open source database server, then MariaDB is a great place to start.
To install MariaDB run the commands below:
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
After installing MariaDB, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable MariaDB service to always start up when the server boots.
Run these on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
sudo systemctl stop mysql.service sudo systemctl start mysql.service sudo systemctl enable mysql.service
Run these on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
sudo systemctl stop mariadb.service sudo systemctl start mariadb.service sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
To secure MariaDB database server, run the command below. This will allow you to set a root password, remove anonymous user, disable remote root login and more.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
When prompted, answer the questions below by following the guide.
- Enter current password for root (enter for none): Just press the Enter
- Set root password? [Y/n]: Y
- New password: Enter password
- Re-enter new password: Repeat password
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y
Now that MariaDB is installed, to test whether the database server was successfully installed, run the commands below.
sudo mysql -u root -p
type the root password when prompted.
If you see a similar screen as shown above, then the server was successfully installed.
Step 3: Install PHP 7.2 and Related Modules
GitScrum is a PHP based app and PHP is required. However, PHP 7.2 may not be available in Ubuntu default repositories. To run PHP 7.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 and previous, you may need to run the commands below:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Then update and upgrade to PHP 7.2
sudo apt update
Next, run the commands below to install PHP 7.2 and related modules.
sudo apt install php7.2 libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-common php7.2-mailparse php7.2-mysql php7.2-gmp php7.2-curl php7.2-mbstring php7.2-imap php7.2-ldap php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php7.2-cli php7.2-zip php7.2-yaml php7.2-dev php-pear
After installing PHP 7.2, run the commands below to open PHP default configuration file for Apache2.
sudo nano /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini
The lines below is a good settings for most PHP based CMS. Update the configuration file with these and save.
file_uploads = On allow_url_fopen = On short_open_tag = On memory_limit = 256M upload_max_filesize = 100M max_execution_time = 360 date.timezone = America/Chicago
Everytime you make changes to PHP configuration file, you should also restart Apache2 web server. To do so, run the commands below:
sudo systemctl restart apache2.service
Now that PHP is installed, to test whether it’s functioning, create a test file called phpinfo.php in Apache2 default root directory. ( /var/www/html/)
sudo nano /var/www/html/phpinfo.php
Then type the content below and save the file.
<?php phpinfo( ); ?>
Next, open your browser and browse to the server’s hostname or IP address followed by phpinfo.php
/phpinfo.php
You should see PHP default test page.
Step 4: Create GitScrum Database
Now that you’ve installed all the packages that are required for GitScrum to function, continue below to start configuring the servers. First run the commands below to create a blank GitScrum database.
To logon to MariaDB database server, run the commands below.
sudo mysql -u root -p
Then create a database called gitscrum
CREATE DATABASE gitscrum;
Create a database user called gitscrumuser with a new password
CREATE USER 'gitscrumuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';
Then grant the user full access to the database.
GRANT ALL ON gitscrum.* TO 'gitscrumuser'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Finally, save your changes and exit.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT;
Step 5: Download GitScrum Latest Release
To get GitScrum latest release you may want to use Composer. Composer allows you to download and manage packages and their dependencies easily.
To install Composer on Ubuntu, run the commands below:
sudo apt install curl git curl -sS | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
After installing Composer above, change Apache2 home directory and download GitScrum packages into a new project folder called gitscrum.
cd /var/www/ sudo composer create-project gitscrum-community-edition/laravel-gitscrum --stability=stable --keep-vcs
After running the commands above, you should see similar lines as below:
Output: > Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postInstall > php artisan optimize Generating optimized class loader The compiled class file has been removed. > php artisan key:generate Application key [base64:wQdCK1zYGHJM6l8nGqd9smgumbTCBQxRfFjCA2GUDlM=] set successfully.
Next, change into the new folder and update GitScrum packages with the following commands.
cd /var/www/laravel-gitscrum sudo composer update sudo composer run-script post-root-package-install
To integrate GitScrum with Github, you’ll have to sign into Github and create an app.
To do that, click the link below to create a new app in Github.
After registering the new app, it should give you a Click ID and Secret. Copy these two details and open GitScrum .env file in its home directory.
sudo nano /var/www/laravel-gitscrum/laravel-gitscrum/.env
Add the highlighted details and save.
APP_ENV=local APP_KEY=base64:W2ToyfW8zHqtWfcerter2kZgccbuy3XrtirwERDyZywtVkE= APP_DEBUG=true APP_LOG_LEVEL=debug APP_URL= APP_TITLE=GitScrum APP_LANG=en GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=13243c49494875180763529d GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=4984b059b453eaef8938374493490f313f6b79219 GITLAB_KEY= GITLAB_SECRET= GITLAB_INSTANCE_URI= BITBUCKET_CLIENT_ID= BITBUCKET_CLIENT_SECRET= DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=localhost DB_PORT=3306 DB_DATABASE=gitscrum DB_USERNAME=gitscrumuser DB_PASSWORD=database_password_here APP_PAGINATE=10 PROXY_PORT= PROXY_METHOD= PROXY_SERVER= PROXY_USER= PROXY_PASS= SLACK_CHANNEL=channel-name SLACK_BOT_NAME=bot-name SLACK_WEBHOOK=endpoint
Exit and save
After that, run the commands below;
sudo php artisan migrate sudo php artisan db:seed --class=SettingSeeder
Since you just ran the web server as root, you should make sure any newly created files are owned by the www-data user and group. To do that run the commands below:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/laravel-gitscrum/ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/laravel-gitscrum/
Step 6: Configure Apache2 Virtual Host
Finally, configure Apahce2 virtual host configuration file for GitScrum. This file will control how users access GitScrum content. Run the commands below to create a new configuration file called gitscrum.conf
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/gitscrum.conf
Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace the highlighted line with your own domain name and directory root location.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/laravel-gitscrum/public
ServerName gitscrum.example.com
ServerAlias www.gitscrum.example.com
<Directory /var/www/laravel-gitscrum/public>
Options FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save the file and exit.
Step 7: Enable the GitScrum
After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below
sudo a2ensite gitscrum.conf sudo systemctl restart apache2.service
Next open your browser and browse to the server domain name or server IP address of the host. Setup wizard.
Login with your Github account and begin setting up your environment.
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Conclusion:
This post shows you how to install GitScrum on Ubuntu 18.04 | 16.04. If you find any error above, please use the comment form below to report it.
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